Flashes of Panic

It was agreed yesterday in the media tribune that we’d like to see some of the Ethiopian distance runners (Meseret Defar, Tirunesh Dibaba, Kenenisa Bekele) who routinely wow the crowds with scorching last-lap finishes in the 3,000m, 5,000m and even 10,000m, step down and run a proper 1,500m. Dibaba and Defar, in particular, could be competitive with the best in the world; Defar’s 8:24.x 3,000m PR represents, at worst, two consecutive 4:12 1,500m runs, but her closing 1,500m was probably significantly faster.

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