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 Lebeta Debela, 22, who won the Limerick half-marathon last May, was knocked unconscious while out running on Knockalisheen Road. He has been living at the refugee centre on Knockalisheen Road since April 2009. After being viciously attacked by two men, Mr Debela was taken to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital. He was allowed home after treatment. The assault happened last Thursday afternoon as he was on his way to meet other members of Limerick AC for a training session. Supt Frank O’Brien from Henry Street Gardaí Station said they only became of the attack yesterday and were concerned that a serious assault should be carried out on any person, especially a foreign national.
 NAIROBI,
Kenya — Double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia beat world
champion Linet Masai of Kenya in the women's 10,000 meters at the
African Athletics Championships on Saturday. Dibaba trailed for most the race before outsprinting Masai on the last lap to win in 31 minutes, 51.39 seconds. Fellow Ethiopian Haileyesus Melkamu was second in 31:55.50 and Masai third in 31:59.36.
NAIROBI, Jul. 27, 2010 - Kenya and Ethiopia are set to renew their legendary rivalry during
the 17th CAA African Senior Athletics Championships that get underway on
July 28 to Aug 1. Over the years, the two East African neighbours
have dominated long distance running globally in a show of rivalry akin
to that of Jamaica and America in the sprints. In fact it is
whispered that the two nations contributed highly to the diminished
interest among nations in the World Cross Country Championships that
they dominated like the proverbial colossus and which has since assumed
biennial status. Ethiopia competed at home during the last edition
before frenzied crowds and this time it will be Kenya's turn to compete
under home support.
 With
a bold, late-race move and a little luck, Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba
took home the 5000m title at the IAAF World Junior Championships in
Moncton, Canada today. Dueling with Mercy Cherono, the World
Junior Cross Country and 3000m Champion from Kenya for most of the race,
Dibaba was faced with the challenge of beating one of the best junior
runners on the planet- not an easy task considering Cherono's excellent
form as of late.
National team player, national team coach for his country’s only
major international triumph, co-founder of his continent’s FIFA
confederation, president of that confederation for 15 years, and in many
ways the man who set in motion the whole chain of events that led to
South Africa becoming the first African nation to host the World Cup:
the late Ethiopian visionary Ydnekatchew Tessema deserves greater
prominence in the annals of soccer history than he has received.
Tessema’s remarkable story intertwined with deconolisation, the fight
against apartheid in South Africa and the battle for respect and
opportunities for African soccer in the face of a Eurocentric FIFA.
Tessema, born in 1921, was a hell of a player (scorer of 318 goals in
365 games for Saint-George SA) and a coach: in the latter role, he took
his native Ethiopia to their sole major tournament triumph, at the 1962
Africa Cup of Nations.
But it was as an administrator that Tessema left his true imprint on
the sport. In 1953, four African nations attended the FIFA Congress for
the first time: Egypt, Ethiopia, South Africa and Sudan. At first, FIFA
resisted African claims for representation on its Executive Committee;
in The Ball Is Round, David Goldblatt says “Initially their
efforts had been brusquely rebuffed by FIFA’s European majority on the
grounds of a barely disguised and contemptuous racism.”
 The 30th
running of the Subaru 4 Mile Chase featured one thrilling finish, one
dominating performance, and two winners from Ethiopia. Bado Worku
and Bizunesh Deba were the winners of the event, which took place in
80-degree temperatures in Buffalo Friday night. They each earned $1,000
for their efforts. The men's race looked like it was going to be a
good one almost from the opening gun. It took less than a half-mile for
a lead pack to develop. Derese Rashaw had a step on the field for the
most part, but Samuel Ndereba, Rashaw, Worku Beyi, three-time defending
champion Demese Tefera and Canadian Dylan Wykes were close behind.
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UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia won the
2010 Boilermaker 15K Road Race Sunday and set a new course record in
the process.
Yidenekachew Abebe, 28, was a farmer in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples (SNNP) Regional State town of Hosanna, until recently, when he sold his farmland and came to Addis Abeba. Here he paid almost 37,600 Br to Askallucan Trading Plc which was promoting a package for people to go watch the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. However, he was denied an entry visa to South Africa and the dream that brought him out of his village to the city remained just that – a dream. Yidenekachew joined hundreds of people who had met a similar fate, sitting outside Askallucan Trading’s office in Arat Kilo, near Ginfele Bridge on Elizabeth II Street on Tuesday, June 29. Unfazed by the cold and cloudy weather, the mob went looking for Girmay G. Michael, vice general manager of Askallucan Trading -who had guaranteed them visas to South Africa. Now they are demanding their money back. Askallucan Trading ran a massive promotional campaign wherein the company claimed to possess 10,000 guaranteed visas to South Africa. It offered people a package that included a ticket for the match of their choice, a roundtrip airplane ticket, and a five-day hotel stay with meals included, all for 37,580.65 Br.
Tirunesh Dibaba, the double Olympic champion, and
Tariku Bekele, the brother of long-distance giant – Kenenisa Bekele,
clinched the 5K titles at the 2010 Prefontaine Classic in Eugene,
Oregon, on July 3, 2010. Both hail from the State of Oromia in Ethiopia.
Tirunesh
Dibaba finished the women’s 5K at 14:34.07, smashing the Meeting Record
(MR) set by her compatriot Meseret Defar in June 2008.
Tariku
Bekele clocked the first sub-13 minutes 5K in the U.S. by reaching the
finishing lines at 12:58.93. .... moreHere are the videos of the two races.Tariku Bekele Win at the 2010 Prefontaine ClassicTirunesh Dibaba Win at the 2010 Prefontaine Classic Eugene, USA — Tirunesh Dibaba is sometimes called the “Golden Girl”
for all of the Olympic and World Championships gold medals she has won:
two in the Beijing Olympics, two in the 2005 World Championships, and
one each in Paris 2003 and Osaka 2007. Five gold medals in World Cross
Country Championships races. The 24-year-old Ethiopian is virtually
unbeatable when healthy, and she is healthy now, and ready to show why
she’s also known as “The Baby-Faced Destroyer.” In her first
appearance at Hayward Field in the 36th annual Prefontaine Classic
on Saturday, the sixth stop of the Samsung Diamond League
series, Dibaba has asked for a very fast pace, possibly fast enough to
challenge the meet record of 14:38.73, set two years ago by her
arch-rival and compatriot, Meseret Defar. Dibaba, a two-time World
record setter in the event, has a lifetime collection of marks that
includes more than a dozen times faster than that, topped by her
14:11.15 from 2008. The
field also includes another swift Ethiopian, Wude Ayelew, the bronze
medallist over 10,000m at last year's World Championships. Despite her
youthful 22 years, Ayelew has already displayed phenomenal range, from
her 14:38.44 5000m career best to a fast 1:07:58 in the Half Marathon. Hoping
to stay with Dibaba on Saturday is Shalane Flanagan, the U.S. 5000m
record holder, whose 14:44.80 national standard indicates she can be
dangerous. Add in 2010 USA Track & Field 5k champ Lauren Fleshman
and 10k titlist Amy Begley, and the race up front should be fun to
watch.
Glasgow-born former Gillingham, Huddersfield and
Swindon striker Iffy Onoura has been named head coach of the Ethiopia
national team. The 42-year-old, who is of Nigerian descent,
began his coaching career in 2004 with Walsall. He was sacked by
manager Paul Merson, who said he needed more experience, but later had
coaching positions with Swindon, Lincoln and Gillingham. Onoura
also had spells as caretaker manager of all three club. He
was first-team coach with Gillingham and assistant to Peter Jackson at
Lincoln but left Sincil Bank in 2008. Onoura started his senior
career with Huddersfield and went on to play for Mansfield Town,
Gillingham, Swindon, Sheffield United, Wycombe Wanderers, Grimsby Town,
Tranmere Rovers and Walsall.
ADDIS ABABA — Ghana's amazing run in the World Cup may be a source of inspiration for Africa, but it's also providing a wake-up call for African nations to lay more emphasis on improving their football standards. In Ethiopia, thousands of fans have turned up in droves to watch the African teams make their mark in the World Cup, providing rapturous support for Ghana when they beat the United States to reach the quarter-finals. "Ghana is the pride of Africa," vuvuzela-blowing Estifanos Tadesse told AFP. "We are Africans so we support them. And of course, they're performing very, very well."
The Ethiopian Football Federation (EFF) on Monday officially signed a one year contract with a British coach of Nigerian descent who will train the Ethiopian national soccer team. The new coach, Ifem Onuora, 43, will be paid a monthly salary of $13,000, together with free telephone, housing and automobile for his stay in Ethiopia and free air tickets twice a year to travel to his country. While signing the agreement, Sahilu Gebrewolde, president of EFF said that the coach’s salary and other expenses will be covered by MIDROC Ethiopia, a company owned by Ethiopian tycoon, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Ali Alamodin, who is running billions of dollars worth of investments in various sectors in Ethiopia, including the Sheraton Hotel in Addis Ababa. The new coach is said to have ‘A’ level in coaching with many years of experience.
Nearly 4,600 people lined up for the 30th Stratton Faxon Fairfield Half Marathon in Fairfield, Connecticut on June 27.
Temperatures at the start were hot with high humidity, dropping the winning times in the men's event by almost two minutes.
Bado Worku of Ethiopia won the race in 1:05:49. Worku finished second at last weekend's Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon
in Duluth, Minnesota. Worku edged out defending champ, Worku Beyi,
also of Ethiopia, by only two seconds. Beyi was fourth last weekend at
the Garry Bjorklund Half. Fellow countryman Nigusse Ketema was third
in Fairfield with a time of 1.05:57.
Defending champ Buzunesh Deba of Ethiopia won the women's division in 1:15.43. Deba is coming off of a win just last weekend at Grandma's Marathon in Duluth.
MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H. -- A 23-year-old woman from Ethiopia who had to borrow a pair of running shoes just before the start of the Mount Washington Road Race set a new women's record Saturday for the uphill course to the summit of the Northeast's highest peak. Shewarge Amare (Sheh-WAR'-guh AM'-are-ay), who currently lives and trains in New York City, raced up the 7.6-mile course in one hour, eight minutes and 21 seconds Saturday. The previous record for a female runner was 1:10:08. Amare, who placed 19th overall, realized her shoes and running clothes were locked in a car whose driver was away. She quickly borrowed items from another runner and ran with no further worries. "I always think I will win," said Amare, who had never seen the ultra-steep auto road before. "Sometimes you get it, sometimes you don't get it." The first-place men's winner was Chris Siemers, 29, of Arvada, Colo., whose time was one hour and 22 seconds. He won last year's Denver marathon.
By Abdi Sheikh
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali
Islamist militants killed two people and arrested dozens of others for
breaking a ban on watching the World Cup on television, residents said.
They said the masked fighters from the Hizbul Islam group raided
houses on Sunday and Monday in the Afgoi district, 30 km (19 miles)
south of the capital Mogadishu, after hardline Islamist groups banned
Somalis from watching the tournament.
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