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Trailblazer Bikila opened the way for African marathon runners

NAIROBI – Long before Haile Gebrselassie and Kenenisa Bekele ascended to the top of world distance running, there was another great Ethiopian athlete. Ethiopian athlete Abebe Bikila was the first black African to win Olympic gold with a now-iconic, barefoot victory in the marathon at the 1960 games in […]

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