Ugandan athlete who died after her partner set her on fire gets military funeral Thousands of mourners in Uganda paid their respects to Rebecca Cheptegei, the Olympic athlete who died last week in Kenya after her partner set her on fire, at a military funeral in a remote town near the Ken...
That made him the first runner to continuously win two Olympic marathons. In 1968, a car accident left the great runner unable to walk for ever. Abebe Bikila died in 1973. A huge crowd, including the then ruler of Ethiopia, Atse Haile Selassie, gathered as he was laid to rest. Abebe ...
Eric Liddell was a British runner who won a gold medal in the 400-metre run and a bronze in the 200 metres at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris. The son of Scottish missionaries, Liddell was born in China. His family returned to Scotland when he was five y
Ville Ritola was a Finnish long-distance runner, winner of three Olympic gold medals and two-time world-record holder for the 10,000-metre run. Ritola ran somewhat in the shadow of his great countryman Paavo Nurmi. Ritola lived and trained in the United
A cross-country relay runner carries a torch first lit at Olympia, Greece, and ignites the flame that burns throughout the fifteen or sixteen days of the games. Thousands of runners, representing each country between Greece and the host country, take part in the four-week torch relay. The ...
A common observation about Sebastian Coe's lifetime of going against the grain is that it makes him more of a thorn in the side of the International Olympic Committee than an ideal candidate to become its next president. The 68-year-old gold-medal runner who went on to lead the 2012 Lon...
Friedrich Traun was a German track and field runner who traveled to Athens to compete in the 100 meter and 800 meter race, but failed to qualify for both. Also a tennis player, he tried next to enter the tennis competition, but also failed to win in the qualifying rounds, being beaten ...
To people in the Helsinki games the most impressive was the runner from Czechoslovakia zhatuopeike, he became the history of the Olympic Games in the same tournament in 5000 m 48、etres, 10000 metres and the marathon three projects have won the. The Soviet Union took part in the Olympic ...
Died: Aug. 16, 1975, Moscow, Russia (aged 48) Awards And Honors: Olympic Games See all related content → Vladimir Kuts (born Feb. 7, 1927, Aleksino, Ukraine, U.S.S.R.—died Aug. 16, 1975, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet distance runner who held the world record in the 5,000...
Runner calls for change in Ethiopia Lilesa says he has received an outpouring of support since the Olympics. “People make the sign wherever I go,” he said. A crowd funding site has raised more than $160,000. The site was set up by someone in the US who says he recognized that Liles...