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" For a continent that hits the
headlines most often for wars
and famine, the Olympics offered
Africa a chance to make the
news for more positive reasons,
and its athletes obliged with a
host of outstanding achievements.
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Runner's World Predicts 4
Gold Medals for Team Ethiopia
(Nazret)  
Runner's World, the self -
described world's leading running
magazine, predicts Team Ethiopia
will bag 4 Gold Medals at the
2008 Beijing Olympics athletics
events.
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Ethiopia names Olympians
July 14 (NBC) ".. A strong squad
of 36 athletes for the Olympics.
The highlight was the ...
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Ethio Quest News
Together We Can Make It!
Country
 G
 S
 B
 T
China
 51
 21
 28
 100
U.S.A.
 36
 38
 36
 110
Russia
 23
 21
 28
 72
G.Britain
 19
 13
 15
 47
Germany
 16
 10
 15
 41

Team Ethiopia
Schedule
Friday,August 15  
Men’s 1500m Round 1  
Women’s 3000m
Steeplechase Round 1  
Women’s 10000m Final

Saturday, August 16  
Men’s 3000m Steeplechase
Round 1

Sunday, August 17
Women’s Marathon Final  
Women’s 3000m
Steeplechase Final  
Men’s 1500m Semifinals  
Men’s 10000m Final

Monday, August 18
Men’s 3000m Steeplechase
Final  

Tuesday, August 19
Women’s 1500m Round 1  
Women’s 5000m Round 1  
Men’s 1500m Final  

Wednesday, August 20:Men’
s 5000m Round 1  

Thursday, August 21
Women’s 1500m Semifinals  
Friday, August 22
Women’s 5000m Final

Saturday, August 23
Women’s 1500m Final  
Men’s 5000m Final  

Sunday, August 24  
Men’s Marathon Final  

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We wish our Olympians
great success.
Ethio Quest News
2008 Olympics Games Preview
August 10 ( Runners World ) - How
to describe Ethiopia? A country
roughly twice the size of Texas with
three times as many people. A
complex blend of massive highlands
and dissected plateaus divided by the
Great Rift Valley. One of the oldest
inhabited areas in the world, perhaps
the seat of all human migration.More
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Country
 G
 S
 B
 T
Kenya
 5
 5
 4
 14
Ethiopia
 4
 1
 2
 7
Zimbabwe
 1
 3
 0
 4
Cameroon
 1
 0
 0
 1
Tunisia
 1
 0
 0
 1
Lone Ethiopian Boxer's Olympic Dream Shattered
August 12 ( Updates ) - According to the AP report posted on
NBC's Olympics page, " There are 283 boxers left in the olympic
field after American bantamweight Russell and Britain's Gavin
dropped out for failing to make weight, along with Ethiopian
flyweight Molla Getachew Ambaw." Ethiopia Zare report - Amharic
Ethiopia's Tirunesh wins 10,000m gold
Beijing ( AFP ) - Ethiopia's Tirunesh
Dibaba produced her trademark electric
last lap to win the Women's 10,000m gold
medal at the Olympics on.. More
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Nigeria
 0
 1
 3
 4
Algeria
 0
 1
 1
 2
Morocco
 0
 1
 1
 2
S.Africa
 0
 1
 0
 1
Sudan
 0
 1
 0
 1
Egypt
 0
 0
 1
 1
Imperious Kenenisa defends 10,000m gold in style
August 17 (AFP) - " The 26 year old triple world champion clocked
a new olympic record of 27 min 01.17 sec, with compatriot Sileshi
Sihine claiming silver - as he did at the Athens Games in ....More
Haile the Lion heart!
by Yilma Bekele
" The three Ethiopians had their
won virtual network with a robust
firewall as formidable as the great
wall. Haile the good shepered gave
the final signal and Kenenisa More
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia's Tirunesh claims 5000m gold for historic double
    Aug 22 (Channel News Asia) -
    Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba
    produced another astonishingly
    fast final lap to win the women's
    5,000m gold at the Beijing
    Olympics on Friday for the first
    long-distance running double in
    28 years. More
" ..Dibaba can now lay claim to the mantle of world's
greatest female distance runner." The New York Times
Double Glory
Mauritius
 0
 0
 1
 1
Togo
 0
 0
 1
 1
Total
 12
 14
 14
 40
         
         
         
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More Ethiopian double joy as Kenenisa wins 5000m
August 23 ( AFP ) - ".. His triumph was the first such
men's double since compatriot Miruts Yifter's feat
over the same events at the 1980 Moscow Games.
Dibaba's double over the same distance had been a
landmark for women athletes. More
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" Kenenisa Bekele has now surely claimed that most
treasured of  appellations: " greatest of all time"Irish Times
Ethiopian  Olympians
Ethiopia Welcomes Olympics Stars
August 27 (BBC) - Thousands of cheering
Ethiopians have lined the streets of the Capital,
Addis Ababa, to welcome the country's
olympic gold-medal winning More
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" I wanted the world
to know that my
country, Ethiopia, has
always won with
determination and
heroism."
Abebe Bikila
The Beijing
Games begin
August 8 " Among
other notable flag
carriers were
Ethiopian running
legend Miruts
Yifter, South
Africa's one-legged
Paralympian Natalie
.....
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