Defar, reborn in London and heading towards the Marathon

Published by IAAF - Aug 11 2012, 01:38 AM
10 August 2012 - London, UK - The final boost for Meseret Defar may have come from her adopted five-year-old daughter: “I was on the phone with my little girl and she said to me: Please win and bring back the gold medal”, recalls Meseret Defar, who took her second Olympic 5000m gold medal after Athens 2004. In London she had not been the big favourite but she managed to edge out Kenya’s Vivian Cheruiyot and her fellow-Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba
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