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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - More than 1,000 athletes will take part in the African Athletics Championships, a good chance to warm up for the Olympic Games, an Ethiopian official said on Tuesday.
Dube Jillo, technical director of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation, said 40 of Africa's 53 states had confirmed their participation ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
BIRMINGHAM, England (AFP) - Ethiopia distance-running great Kenenisa Bekele added to his collection of notable landmarks by setting a new world-best performance mark in the two miles at the international indoor meeting here Saturday.
The reigning Olympic 10,000 metres champion, on the same track where compatriot Haile Gebrselassie achieved the previous ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
[Egypt's captain Ahmed Hassan holds the trophy]
ACCRA (AFP) — Egypt retained their African Nations Cup crown here Sunday when Mohamed Aboutraika scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over Cameroon which also delivered a record sixth title.
The defending champions ensured they held on to the trophy when, after a ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
TIME
Imagine most of baseball's Latin American sluggers returning home en masse to miss a full month of games midway through a regular season, and you'll get some idea of what European pro soccer is currently experiencing. Depleted squads; the general level of play noticeably weakened; and standings shaken up as ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
FIFA
Ethiopia may not have had a title to celebrate in December, but their performances in the Cecafa Cup were enough to propel them back into the top 100 on the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking. Indeed, Ethiopia moved up 15 places to 90th in the latest standings, after last month dropping out ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
Kwame Ohene, a Ghanaian British has traveled a long distance from Italy through the United Kingdom to Ghana with over £2000 including airfare to watch Ghana's national team called the Black Stars play against Guinea in the opening ceremony of the 2008 African Nations Cup football finals dubbed Ghana 2008.
Kwame ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
(AFP)
Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie won the Dubai Marathon on Friday and prize money of 250,000 dollars, although he failed to beat the world record time of 2hr 04min 26sec he set in Berlin in September.
His failure by 27 seconds to better that record meant Gebreselassie, a former double Olympic ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Dubai - Haile Gebrselassie was predictably low-key just two days before his assault on his own World record in the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon on Friday. And that, says his manager, Jos Hermens, “Is a good sign. It means he’s very relaxed. A couple of weeks ago, he was a ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
She was gunning for it. Every step built confidence. Every step led her to her goal.
Adenech Zekiros of Ethiopia wanted to finish the marathon at Sunday's P.F. Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon & 1/2 Marathon with her personal-best time - under 2 hours, 27 minutes and 28 seconds.
But ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
The East African Standard (Nairobi)
Samson Ateka
Nairobi
Amateur Boxing Association (ABA) affiliates have welcomed the introduction of Inter-Provincial Association Championships. The championship is designed to add up to the five-leg National League tally.
The Championships will run from April 19 through to August 30, according to the ABA calendar released on Thursday.
Nairobi ABA ...
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