Q 01/05
A) Gondar
B) Asella
C) Addis Ababa
D) Bekoji
Answer · why
He was one of ten children on a farm, and his mother died of cancer when he was six.
Q 02/05
A) Carrying his books to school on foot
B) A childhood collarbone break
C) Copying his first coach's style
D) A tendon injury from a fall
Answer · why
He ran ten kilometres to school every morning and the same distance back each evening.
Q 03/05
A) Two kilometres
B) Five kilometres
C) Ten kilometres
D) Twenty kilometres
Answer · why
And the same again home each evening, which shaped both his fitness and his crooked-arm running style.
Q 04/05
A) Four
B) Three
C) One
D) Two
Answer · why
Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000; injury left him fifth in Athens in 2004 when he tried for a third.
Q 05/05
A) 19
B) 41
C) 27
D) 12
Answer · why
He also broke 61 Ethiopian national records at distances from 800 metres to the marathon.
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