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Grete Waitz honoured and remembered at Bislett Stadium ceremony - IAAFPublished by
Oslo, Norway – Perhaps it was a good thing Grete Waitz wasn’t still with us, because last night in Bislett Stadium where the great Norwegian champion first came to national then international prominence, she was eulogised to over 1500 people by the likes of the Norwegian Prime Minister, the mayor of Oslo, the head of the Norwegian Athletics Federation, fellow champions, and the president of the New York Road Runners. Knowing Grete, the private person who shunned personal recognition, the public display of it all would have been pure torture. More news |