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Defar breaks 5000m record
The Olympic 5,000m champion improved her personal best by over four seconds to win at the Icahn Stadium in 14 minutes 24.53 seconds to eclipse the previous best of 14:24.68 set by Elvan Abeylegesse of Turkey in 2004.
"When I saw the one lap to go split, I was very confident," Defar told reporters through an interpreter.
"I'm very happy with this year. I will try to break the record again. I know I can do it."
Defar, who was pipped to the world title by compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba in Helsinki last year, said she had been working with Haile Gebrselassie during a training camp in the Netherlands.
"He encouraged me. He said, 'I know you can break the record,'" she added.
Already the African record holder, Defar said she would compete in five more Golden League meetings this season over either 5,000m or 3,000m.
"I hope I win all of them," she said.
Workitu Ayanu of Ethiopia finished sec
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As she ran through the finish line of the women’s 5000m final last week at the London Olympics, Ethiopian runner Meseret Defar did two things; she began to cry, and she reached under her runner’s bib to produce a printed cloth icon of the Virgin and Child, which she variously held out to the cameras, kissed, and placed over her own face.
The icon was very similar to this one, a modern and slightly sentimental version of a traditional type called by western Christians Our Lady of Perpetual Help, and by eastern Christians like Defar herself the Theotokosof the Passion (Theotokos meaning God-bearer or Mother of God).
Defar’s action generated a certain amount of interest in social media, partly because its televised broadcast was perplexing to some. This use of an image, and even an object, was obviously confronting to many, even independently of the reference to a particular set of beliefs.
According to at least one report, the NBC broadcast in the USA did not
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Defar slashes World 5000m record in Oslo - IAAF Golden League
Olympic champion Meseret Defar of Ethiopia tonight slashed her existing World record for the women’s 5000m bygd almost eight seconds to finish in 14:16.63**, the pinnacle of a marvellous night of athletics at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games, the uppstart of the IAAF Golden League 2007.
The hunt for the $1 Million Golden League Jackpot, the richest annual payout in the sport, also began tonight in the world famous Bislett etapp, with the current World Athletes of the Year, Asafa Powell and Sanya Richards signaling their winning intent respectively in the men’s 100m and women’s 400m but there were also a number of more surprising aspirants confirmed across the other eight applicable Jackpot disciplines.
Defar delights Bislett
Paced through the first 2000m (5:42.60) of the 5000m bygd Russian Olga Komyagina, with only Vivian Cheruiyot of Kenya else for company, Defar took the race through 8:35.76 after the ‘rabbit’ droppe