5 August 2012 - London, UK - Tiki Gelana was not sure at first that she could keep it in the family. That’s not just the extended Ethiopian family, of whom she became on Sunday afternoon the winner of the sixth Olympic marathon gold for her nation, since the immortal Abebe Bikila in 1960; nor yet her ‘local’ family in the celebrated town of Bekoji in Arsi, Oromia region, whence hail a plethora of other champions such as Derartu Tulu, Kenenisa Bekele, Tirunesh Dibaba and her sisters, and Fatuma Roba, the first Ethiopian female marathon winner, in Atlanta ‘96; but further, Gelana is the cousin of the Sydney 2000 men’s marathon gold, Gezahegne Abera.