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Ethiopia: First Olympic Gold Medal

Friday, August 15th, 2008 @ 20:21 UTC

by Elia Varela Serra

Countries:: Ethiopia
Topics:: Sport
Languages:: Spanish
Special:: Olympics

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Etiopía: Primer Oro Olímpico...

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

Mamá Etiopía [Spanish] reports that the Ethiopian Olympic team collected their first gold medal, won by female runner Tirunesh Dibaba in the 10,000 meters category. The blog also comments on other favorite Ethiopian athletes with high chances to win medals.

4 comments

addis

wow Tiru, go on and on and on . you are the real ethiopian cute and powerfull girl. we are proud to have u.

# 2008-08-16 at 3:14 am

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A tola

this is intrasting and mazing work not for Ethipioa it is ulso for all Africa we are prud to u I think there is surpraise there is mor gold Meda>>>>>

# 2008-08-17 at 4:38 am

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kebede

yea , congra Tiru for the great achievement , remind the world there’s still talented(Abyssinia)people , we blessed that u represent us in olympic , and i wish Ethiopia win more gold madel ,

# 2008-08-18 at 6:38 am

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Viren Singh

Tirunesh ur most beautiful and golden female on earth.
I am sure the entire citizens of your country love
and admire u.I watched u live on TV.from New Zealand.
Lots of love and best of luck for the future.

# 2008-08-20 at 9:39 am

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