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☆ Abdi Nageeye of the Netherlands and Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya win the New York City Marathon
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

NEW YORK — Abdi Nageeye of the Netherlands won the men’s race at the New York City Marathon on Sunday and Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya took the women’s event. Chepkirui was running New York for the first time and pulled away from defending champion Hellen Obiri in the women’s race. Kenya's Sheila Chepkirui crosses the finish line to win the women's elite race in the New York City Marathon on Sunday. The weather was perfect to run in with temperatures in the lower 40s when the race started. Last year, it was 61 degrees when the race started.

Persons: Abdi Nageeye, Sheila Chepkirui, Nageeye, Evans Chebet, Chebet, Chepkirui, Hellen Obiri, Obiri, Kenya's Sheila Chepkirui, Andrew Kelly, Reuters Obiri, Mary Keitany, Vivian Cheruiyot, Tamirat Tola, Albert Korir, Conner Mantz, Sara Vaughn, Vaughn, Marcel Hug, Daniel Romanchuk, Susannah Scaroni Organizations: New York City Marathon, Reuters, Kenya, Paris Olympic, Chicago Locations: Netherlands, Kenya, Central, New York, COVID, Staten Island, Central Park

☆ NYC Marathon: The Netherlands’ Abdi Nageeye wins thrilling men’s race
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The Netherlands’ Abdi Nageeye won a thrilling men’s race at the New York City marathon on Sunday, while Kenya’s Sheila Chepkirui marked her debut with a victory in the women’s race. Similarly, there was a thrilling finish in the women’s race as Chepkirui accelerated just before the finish to drop her compatriot Hellen Obiri, the defending champion. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/APIn the men’s wheelchair race, the USA’s Daniel Romanchuk took his first win at this marathon since 2019, ending Swiss star Marcel Hug’s domination of this event in recent years. Britain’s David Weir finished second, five seconds behind Romanchuk, while Japan’s Tomoki Suzuki finished another seven seconds back in third after a thrilling sprint finish. Meanwhile, Romanchuk’s compatriot Susannah Scaroni won the women’s wheelchair race by more than 10 minutes, marking the first time in the race’s history that Americans had won both wheelchair races.

Persons: Netherlands ’ Abdi Nageeye, Kenya’s Sheila Chepkirui, Nageeye, Evans Chebet, Tamarit Tola, Kenya’s Albert Korir, Hellen Obiri, Chepkirui, Obiri, Vivian Cheruiyot, Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, Daniel Romanchuk, Marcel Hug’s, Hug, Britain’s David Weir, Japan’s Tomoki Suzuki, Susannah Scaroni, ” Scaroni, “ Organizations: CNN, New York City, Runners, AP Locations: Netherlands, Kenya, New York City

☆ Insider Today: The world's best golf courses
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-02 | by ( Joi-Marie Mckenzie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

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Persons: —, BURCU ATALAY, Tyler Le, Julia Pugachevsky, Sports dietician Jena Brown, Julia, Brown, Tamirat Tola, Bashir Abdi, Tayshia Adams, Phoebe Robinson, Rebecca Zisser, Eva Longoria's, Eva Longoria, Valerie Macon, John Wick, Longoria, David Madison, David Weiss, he's, Chuck Zlotnick, Hulu's, podcasters, Agatha All, Kathryn Hahn, Agatha Harkness, Martha, Martha Stewart's, Dan DeFrancesco, Jordan Parker Erb, Lisa Ryan, Amanda Yen Organizations: Business, Service, New York City Marathon, Sports dietician, Getty, Point, Cabo del, Marvel Television, Netflix, Adidas Locations: Colorado, Europe, Staten Island, United States, AFP, Pebble Beach , California, Cortez, Cabo, Cabo del Sol, Mexico, New York City, New York

☆ They ran an Olympic marathon 12 weeks ago. Now they’re back at it in New York
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-01 | by ( Matthew Futterman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +10 min

Only one runner has won the Olympic marathon in the summer and New York in the fall — Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir in 2021. A pack of runners, including eventual winner Hellen Obiri, race in the Olympic women’s marathon on Aug. 11. She was physically ready to start training again in early September, but even when perfectly healthy, marathon training can be a long and lonely process. (Christian Petersen / Getty Images)Popehn said she found herself replaying the Paris race in her head once she got back home. “It’s on my mind.”GO DEEPER The ex-head of the New York marathon cleared himself in his sport.

Persons: “, ”, Hellen Obiri, Hellen, Lindwurm, —, Conner Mantz, Clayton Young, Tamirat Tola, Belgium’s Bashir Abdi, ” Young, Mantz, they’ve, Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir, Tola, Ulrik Pedersen, Dathan Ritzenhein, ” Obiri, It’s, Ritzenhein, Obiri, Joe Klecker, Klecker, Brigham Young, Young, She’ll, Christian Petersen, Popehn, She’s, ” Popehn, hasn’t Organizations: York City Marathon, Athletics Club, Team, Tokyo Olympics, Brigham, Getty, Boston Marathon, Grandma’s, New Locations: York, New York, Paris, Kenyan, Staten, Ethiopia, Manhattan, Boulder, Col, Central, Versailles, France, Minnesota

☆ How an 'AI sabbatical' helped accounting startup Klarity turbocharge its business
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"We just gutted our product and rebuilt it using generative AI." 'The rules of physics have changed'Even before its sabbatical, Klarity was well-versed in natural language processing and computer vision. Nadhamuni gave a talk on generative AI, its history, and the latest breakthroughs in the technology. If the new tech could do those five things, they would rebuild the core of Klarity's platform using generative AI. Nadhamuni also wrote a playbook on how to run a generative AI sabbatical that's available on Tola Capital's blog.

Persons: —, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Nischal Nadhamuni, Nadhamuni, Klarity, Friedman, Gross, Aaron Fleishman, Fleishman, OpenAI, Miro, Tola Organizations: Service, Business, MIT, Venture Partners, Tola, Picus, Invus, Engineers

☆ A private-equity takeover is coming for startups
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The European private equity firm had been eyeing the late-stage startup for five years, impressed by its traction and focus on customer success. The speed of the deal, and the flashy multiple, illustrate how private equity funds are able to swallow startups more often lately. But in the face of rising inflation and interest rates, software customers from tech startups to mom-and-pop shops trimmed their budgets. Andreessen Horowitz plans to invest in the private equity asset class through its family office division. With high interest rates and a liquidity crunch reshaping the landscape, private equity is seizing the moment.

Persons: —, Scott Arnold, AuditBoard, Michael Brown, They're, Brown, Derek Hernandez, Aaron Fleishman, Fleishman, they're, Thoma, Yoni, Rechtman, it's, Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz Organizations: Service, Business, Battery Ventures, Battery, Tola Capital, Thoma Bravo, Vista Equity Partners, Slow Ventures, Eldridge Industries, Sequoia Locations: Southern California, VCs, Big Tech, Metropolis, North America

☆ Olympic Marathon Course Lets Amateurs Inside the Ropes
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Sarah Lyall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Stephanie Jacquet, 49, is not an Olympic athlete, nor any kind of athlete at all. “This is the first time in my life I’ve ever run anything,” she said. The Marathon for All, as it was called, was the final grand flourish of an audacious Summer Games organized around the revolutionary idea that Paris itself could be a stadium, not apart from the sports but at their center. Half were men and half women; they came from 127 countries and went off in waves, the last leaving just before 1 a.m. And in a nod to the Olympic year, each race had a total of 20,024 entrants.

Persons: Stephanie Jacquet, ”, Tamirat Tola, Paris Organizations: Games Locations: Paris, Versailles, Ethiopia

☆ Tamirat Tola wins captivating Olympic marathon for Ethiopia
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Matthew Futterman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

Tola surged clear and never looked back (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)After letting the little-known Eyob Faniel of Italy lead for most of the first half of the race, Tola made his first move just before the halfway mark. Tola crossed the line an Olympic record time (Andrej Isakovic/AFP via Getty Images)Most remarkably, Tola didn’t even make the Ethiopian team originally. “I trained hard so I could win,” Tola said. Even his compatriot, Kenenisa Bekele, one of the most decorated Ethiopian distance runners but at 42 nearing the end of his career, was gushing after finishing 39th. “Not easy to win the Olympic Games,” he said, in perhaps the understatement of the past two weeks in Paris.

Persons: Tamirat Tola, Tola, Cameron Spencer, ”, Bikila, Bikele, Belgium’s Bashir Abdi, Kenya’s Benson Kipruto, Eliud, victoire appartient, Napoleon, Roland Garros, Andrej Isakovic, Tola didn’t, “, ” Tola, Connor Mantz, Akira Akasaki, ” Mantz, Clayton Young, Abdi, Kenenisa Bekele, ” Bekele, Denisa Geleta, Kipruto Organizations: “, East, Getty, Ethiopian, Boston Marathon, Olympic Locations: Ethiopia, Invalides, Paris, Versailles, Eugene , Ore, New York, Italy, Rome, Tokyo, Kenya, AFP, Japan

☆ I've been to 48 states, but there's one US city I want to visit every summer
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Latifah Al-Hazza | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

After visiting 48 of the 50 US states, Chicago is my favorite place to be in the summer. Here's why I love Chicago summers. Latifah Al-HazzaThe city prides itself on being home to over 20 Michelin-starred restaurants and having a diverse food culture. The city's public Divvy bikes are easy to rent and a great way to see the city in the summer. The event offers incredible city views and access to the indoor aquarium, providing a cool respite from the heat.

Persons: —, Latifah Al, Chiya Chai, Café Tola, Lou Malnati's, Diego, Jackson, Ping, Fulton Organizations: Service, Windy City, Business, Chicago Architecture, Chicago Riverwalk, Michelin, Café Tola, Indienne, Chicago café, Hazza, Art Institute of Chicago, Field Museum, Museum of Science, Industry, Chicago World's Fair, Art, Logan Square Arts, Pitchfork, Chicago Blues Festival, Lakeview Taco Fest, NASCAR, Chicago Air, Water, Chicago Locations: Chicago, Café, Lake Michigan, Beach, Ping Tom, Windy City Smokeout, Lakeview, Sueños

The animated series is a coming-of-age story set in a futuristic Lagos, Nigeria. Simisola Gbadamosi, who voices Tola in the animated series "Iwájú," attends the world premiere in Lagos, Nigeria, on February 27. As audiences tune in to watch “Iwájú,” Ibrahim says he hopes the family show will speak to viewers of all ages. Kugali co-founders Olufikayo "Ziki" Adeola (left), Hamid Ibrahim (middle), and Tolu Olowofoyekul (right) attend a screening of "Iwájú: in Lagos, Nigeria on February 27. Along with the six-episode series, the soundtrack featuring music by Nigerian composer Ré Olunuga and a game called “Disney Iwájú: Rising Chef” are also being released.

Persons: Hamid Ibrahim, Tolu, ” Ibrahim, ”, ” Adeola, Lagos ” Ibrahim, Simisola Gbadamosi, Siji Soetan, Tola, Kole, Dayo Okeniyi, “, ” Olowofoyeku, ” “, “ Iwájú, Kugali, Olufikayo, Tolu Olowofoyekul, CNN Ibrahim, Disney, Christine Service, Ré Olunuga, Ibrahim Organizations: Nigeria CNN —, Kugali Media, Walt Disney Animation Studios, CNN, Disney, Disney Channel, Walt Disney Company Locations: Lagos, Nigeria, Africa, Femi, Walt Disney Company Africa, Nigerian

☆ Tamirat Tola Breaks New York City Marathon Course Record
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola crosses the line to win the men’s elite race at the New York City Marathon. Photo: mike segar/ReutersNEW YORK—Ethiopian Tamirat Tola broke the men’s course record in winning the New York City Marathon on Sunday, toppling yet another mark in an era of super shoes that is remaking records across the sport. Tola broke away around mile 19 and finished the 26.2-mile course in 2 hours, four minutes and 58 seconds on a partly cloudy, balmy day. He surpassed Geoffrey Mutai’s previous mark of 2:05:06 set in 2011.

Persons: Ethiopia’s, Tola, Geoffrey Mutai’s Organizations: New York City Marathon, YORK

☆ Tamirat Tola sets NYC Marathon course record to win men's race; Hellen Obiri takes women's title
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

While the men's race was well decided before the last few miles, the women's race came down to the stretch. Albert Korir of Kenya, who won the 2021 NYC Marathon, finished second nearly 2 minutes behind Tola. Tola finished in 2 hours, 4 minutes and 58 seconds, topping the 2:05.06 set by Geoffrey Mutai in 2011. Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia set a course record to win the New York City Marathon men's race on Sunday while Hellen Obiri of Kenya pulled away in the final 400 meters to take the women's title. Kenya's Hellen Obiri crosses the line to win the women's elite race in the New York City Marathon on Nov. 5, 2023.

Persons: Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola, Kenya's Albert Korir, Ethiopia's Shura, Letesenbet, Sharon Lokedi, Obiri, Gidey, Albert Korir, Tola, Geoffrey Mutai, Jemal, Tamirat Tola, Hellen, Kenya's, Lokedi, Margaret Okayo, Kellyn Taylor, Molly, Brigid Kosgei, Marcel Hug, " Hug, Tatyana McFadden, Kurt Fearnley, Catherine Debrunner of, American Susannah Scaroni Organizations: Central Park, New York, Marathon, New York City Marathon, Boston Marathon, New Locations: Ethiopia, Central, Kenya, Manhattan, Taylor, Swiss, New York, American

NEW YORK (AP) — Tamirat Tola wasn't thinking about breaking the New York City Marathon course record as he was running by himself in Central Park for the last few miles of the race. Albert Korir of Kenya, who won the 2021 NYC Marathon, finished second nearly two minutes behind Tola. This was a stellar women's field that was expected to potentially take down the course record of 2:22:31 set by Margaret Okayo in 2003. There were talks of breaking the course record and doing all the things, after a bit it was like that’s not going to happen. Catherine Debrunner of Switzerland won her New York debut, shattering the course record in the women's wheelchair race.

Persons: — Tamirat Tola, Geoffrey Mutai, ” Tola, “, I’m, Tola, Jemal, Albert Korir, Obiri, ” Obiri, Letesenbet, Sharon Lokedi, Gidey, Lokedi, She's, Ingrid Kristiansen, Margaret Okayo, Kellyn Taylor, Molly, ” Taylor, Brigid Kosgei, Marcel Hug, ” Hug, Tatyana McFadden, Kurt Fearnley, Catherine Debrunner of, American Susannah Scaroni, ”, Debrunner, PARIS Daniel Romanchuk, Aaron Pike, Scaroni, McFadden, ___ Organizations: New York, Ethiopian, Central Park, Boston Marathon, New, PARIS, Games Locations: New York City, Central Park, New York, It’s, Manhattan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Central, Taylor, Swiss, American

☆ Tola crushes competition in men's NYC Marathon, Obiri wins women's race
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Amy Tennery | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

"The people of New York (are) amazing," said Tola, who hoisted his arms aloft as he claimed his first World Marathon Major title after taking third in London earlier this year. Obiri produced an extraordinary final kick in the women's race to outlast Ethiopian Letesenbet Gidey, who crossed the finish line about six seconds behind, as last year's winner, Kenyan Sharon Lokedi, finished third in 2:27:33. Swiss Marcel Hug broke the tape in 1:25:29 in the men’s wheelchair race, picking up a record-extending sixth title in New York, while his compatriot, Catherine Debrunner, won the women's race in 1:39:32. The race capped a blockbuster year for the World Marathon Majors in which both the men’s and women’s world records were obliterated. Kenyan Kelvin Kiptum beat compatriot Eliud Kipchoge's world record mark in Chicago last month, while Ethiopian Tigst Assefa shattered the women's record in Berlin in September.

Persons: Mike Segar, Tola, Obiri, Kenyan Albert Korir, Kitata, Gidey, Sharon Lokedi, Swiss Marcel Hug, Catherine Debrunner, Kenyan Kelvin Kiptum, Eliud, Assefa, Amy Tennery, Andrew Heavens, Christian Radnedge, Toby Davis Organizations: New York, REUTERS, New York City Marathon, Kenyan, triumphing, Ethiopian, Thomson Locations: New York, United States, London, Boston, Swiss, Chicago, Berlin

Image This year’s women’s race was oddly slow until the last few miles. Tola had arrived in New York with questions about his fitness after he dropped out of the marathon at the world championships in Budapest this summer. When she made her marathon debut in New York last year, she went out fast before struggling to a sixth-place finish. “Sometimes,” Obiri said, “you learn from your mistakes.”She put those lessons to use in Boston earlier this year when she won her first world marathon major. By then, only Obiri, Gidey, Lokedi and two others — Viola Cheptoo, the runner-up in 2021, and Brigid Kosgei, a five-time world marathon major champion — were still in contention.

Persons: Hellen, Letesenbet Gidey, Gidey, Obiri, “, ”, Karsten Moran, Sharon Lokedi, ” Obiri, Tamirat Tola, Tola, Geoffrey Mutai’s, Jemal Yimer, Albert Korir, Peter Foley, ” Ritzenhein, Hellen Obiri, Uli Seit, Kellyn Taylor, — Viola Cheptoo, Brigid Kosgei, —, Ritzenhein Organizations: New York City Marathon, Boston Marathon, Boulder, Athletics Club, The New York Times, Shutterstock, Credit, Kenya Locations: Kenya, Ethiopia, Colo, New York, Budapest, Staten Island, Boulder, Boston, “ New York, Central Park, Gidey, Paris

It was hard to miss Mark Aaron Polger, Alexi Pappas and Masashi Kondo at the New York City Marathon on Sunday. With energy gels and bodega coffees in hand, the crowd made its way to Fort Wadsworth, where thousands of runners congregate each year before running the New York City Marathon. Speed demons wearing Nike Vaporflys and short-shorts mingled with casual runners wearing “Monsters, Inc.” onesies. That’s the record I’m going for. Running is therapeutic, even though I’m going to be running really, really slowly.

Persons: Mark Aaron Polger, Alexi Pappas, Masashi Kondo, ”, “, Adam Tjolle, Simon Waterhouse, Malina Roberts, we’ll, they’re, they’ve, Stephen Zachensky, Marlinda Francisco, Mika Shaw, Maansi Srivastava, It’s, I’ve Organizations: New York City Marathon, Nike, Inc, New York Times, York Locations: Fort Wadsworth, Edinburgh, Scotland, Newmarket, England, Brooklyn, York City, Tokyo, Berlin, New York, Westchester, N.Y, How’d, New York Times Tucson, Ariz, Ogden , Utah, Japan, Los Angeles, Manhattan

☆ Startups are hitting a road block when selling their AI to big companies. Investors and founders explain how to get around it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Meghan Morris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The procurement team, responsible for sourcing and pricing the services the company buys, can introduce significant barriers to enterprise startups. Sellers must navigate a thicket of data concerns and increasing price sensitivities, among other issues, with procurement teams that may have little familiarity with AI. Enterprise software deals are taking longer to close compared with last year, per a September survey from New York-based SAAS financing startup Capchase. "That's leading procurement teams to ask sellers 'what works here, tell me where I could have unanticipated outcomes?'" Nemeth said procurement teams want to be educated and help see deals through.

Persons: Samir Kumar, Kumar, Barack Obama, Obama, Reuters Kumar, Obama's, Miguel Fernandez Larrea, Fernandez Larrea, Tola, Sheila Gulati, Charles Cotugno Gulati, Rachael Nemeth, Nemeth Organizations: Microsoft, Qualcomm, Touring Capital, Companies, White House, Reuters, Enterprise, Vanderbilt University Locations: United States, New York

☆ Running great Farah ends competitive career with fourth at Great North Run
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

NEWCASTLE, England, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Britain's Mo Farah capped his illustrious competitive racing career with a fourth-place finish at the Great North Run half-marathon in Newcastle on Sunday. Wearing a bib that read "Sir Mo," the six-times Great North Run winner crossed in one hour, three minutes and 28 seconds, high-fiving dozens of people lining the route down the home straight. Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola, the 2022 world marathon champion, won in 59:58 to erase his disappointing marathon at the worlds last month in Budapest where he did not finish. The 40-year-old Farah is a six-times world champion and four times Olympic champion. Without having something to do and make me happy, it would have been very difficult for me," Farah said.

Persons: Mo Farah, Sir Mo, Farah, I've, Tamirat Tola, Peres Jepchirchir, Lori Ewing, Christian Radnedge Organizations: Newcastle, BBC, Thomson Locations: NEWCASTLE, England, Newcastle, Budapest, London, Somalia

☆ Uganda's Kiplangat takes marathon gold
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Kiplangat broke away on his own with about 4 km (2.5 miles) to go, crossing the finish line with an advantage of 19 seconds. An exhausted Gebresilase was then overtaken by Teferi, a silver medallist at last year's European Athletics Championships, in the last 200 metres. Defending champion Tamirat Tola, who was part of a three-man breakaway with Kiplangat and Gebresilase before fading, did not finish the race and dropped out after 39 km. A pack of about 30 runners then slowed the pace and took control of it, before Kiplangat, Gebresilase and Tola made their move with 10 km to go. The women's marathon took place on Saturday, with Ethiopia's Amane Beriso claiming gold.

Persons: Victor Kiplangat, Kiplangat, Leul, Gebresilase, Tamirat Tola, Ser, Tola, Ethiopia's Amane, Aadi Nair, William Mallard Organizations: Commonwealth Games, Teferi, Thomson Locations: BUDAPEST, Israel, Budapest, Mongolia, Bengaluru

☆ My Instant Pot brings me joy and a sense of freedom. That's why I'll never abandon it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Tola Onanuga | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some say the Instant Pot has passed its expiry date, but I couldn't disagree more. podcast by Curbed, one guest said people who owned an Instant Pot often talked about it as if it was their lover. Instant Brands continues to operate after filing for bankruptcy protection, but the Instant Pot is seemingly no longer the company's golden goose. I may be in the minority, but I'll passionately continue using my Instant Pot until the day it finally runs out of steam. One thing is for sure — my Instant Pot will give up on me long before I give up on it.

Persons: —, that's Organizations: Service, Brands, Associated Press, Instant Brands

☆ London Marathon: Sifan Hassan lays claim to being greatest female distance runner with thrilling victory
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

That’s precisely what Sifan Hassan did in the London Marathon on Sunday, though her stunning, chaotic victory in the women’s race was anything but straightforward. Hassan (center left) passes Big Ben on her way to an unexpected victory in London. Rather than making a long-term commitment to the marathon, Hassan thought she would test herself over the longer distance and still race on the track this summer. “I was telling myself that I’m stupid that I decided to run the marathon,” said Hassan. Prior to that, she broke the 23-year-old mile world record at the start of 2019 and won 1,500 and 10,000-meter golds at the world championships a few months later.

☆ NYC Marathon: 'Only God knows when we can meet,' says marathon runner Gotytom Gebreslase, cut off from her parents amid conflict in Ethiopia
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —It’s almost a year since marathon runner Gotytom Gebreslase last spoke to her parents over the phone, a detachment she feels most strongly during races. “My wish is to meet them soon – that would make me happy.”Gebreslase breaks the tape at the World Athletics Championships. Some reassurance over her parents’ safety arrived following Gebreslase’s victory at the world championships in July, when she came across a TV report featuring an interview with her mother. “The result I got in the world championships built my confidence,” she says. “When I started running, [my parents] didn’t discourage me, they were encouraging me – especially my mom,” says Gebreslase.

☆ Injured Farah out of London Marathon
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Britain's four times Olympic champion Mo Farah has withdrawn from his home London Marathon on Sunday after suffering a hip injury. Organisers said on Wednesday that the six times world champion was not fit to compete despite intensive treatment. His absence is a second blow to organisers in the space of a week after Kenya's women's world record holder and twice London Marathon champion Brigid Kosgei withdrew due to a minor hamstring injury. read moreCommonwealth Games 10,000m champion Eilish McColgan also withdrew this month on medical grounds while Ethiopia's men's world champion Tamirat Tola pulled out in August due to muscle fatigue. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Toby DavisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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