Sifan Hassan couldn’t stop laughing at herself.
What is wrong with me?” she said of the inner monologue that had echoed in her head through the 26.2 punishing miles of the Olympic women’s marathon on Sunday.
Hassan had already logged three Olympic races, and two bronze medals from them.
She wanted to know if she could do all three events, requiring close to 40 miles of Olympic racing.
The goal, she emphasized, was not necessarily to win medals in each race: Instead, it was simply to complete all three.
Persons:
Sifan Hassan, ”, Hassan, Emil Zatopek
Organizations:
Olympic Games
Locations:
Ethiopian, Netherlands, Czechoslovakia