Ethiopian athletics legend Haile Gebre-Selassie has never been emotional in his entire 25-year successful athletics career. All along he has always been associated with supremely disciplined and ...

Ethiopian sports giants are too many to mention all here. Suffice it to trace just a few, such as Yednekachew Tessema, the celebrated founder and president of CAF and member of the International ...

NEW YORK — The 16th mile of the New York City Marathon was the last step of Haile Gebrselassie's storied career. The finish line was the next step in Chilean miner Edison Pena's improbable rescue.

NEW YORK -- Gebre Gebremariam won the New York City Marathon in his debut at the distance, an unexpected Ethiopian champion on a day when his favored countryman, world-record holder Haile Gebrselassie ...

He took his gloves off in the 23rd mile, flinging them into the air as if they were autumn leaves. His ski cap came off not long after. Soon Gebre Gebremariam was gone, shedding his two top ...

Addis Ababa — The Interfaith Peace-building Initiative (IPI) appointed the tracks-legend Ethiopian Haile Gebre-Selassie Golden Rule Goodwill Ambassador. IPI's board chairman and coordinator of Golden ...

The Ethiopian double Olympic gold medallist and four times world champion in the 10,000 meters, Haile Gebre Selassie, last week received an honorary degree from the national University of Ireland.

Haile Gebre-Selassie waves as he approaches the finish line at the end of the Morrisons Great Manchester Run in May 2015, just a few minutes before he announced his retirement Ethiopian legendary ...

Ethiopian athletics legend Miruts Yifter, popularly known as the gear shifter, one of the world's greatest sporting figures - has died early on Friday at the age of 72 at a hospital in the Canadian ...

Growing up in Ethiopia’s northernmost region of Tigray, Gebre Gebremariam studied Haile Gebrselassie in school, memorizing his medals and records, learning what it took to be a legend. He got an A.

Marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie has announced his retirement from athletics. The 37-year-old from Ethiopia made the announcement after dropping out of his first New York Marathon after ...