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denphone · 13-10-2011, 15:10

Former world marathon record-holder Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia will compete in the first ever Bupa Great Birmingham Run on 23 October organiser Brendan Foster said it was "fantastic" that the man he called "the greatest runner of all time" would run in the half-marathon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/15272869.stm

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Jordyn Wieber won women's all-around gold as another World Gymnastics final went down to the wire in Tokyo Russia's Victoria Komova could not overhaul the American with her final score, finishing 0.033 marks behind her fellow 16-year-old.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/gymnastics/15288642.stm

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denphone Still alive and fighting Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: In the land of beyond and beyond. Services: XL BB, 3 360 boxes , XL TV. Posts: 56,657	Re: The Olympics 2012 Former world marathon record-holder Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia will compete in the first ever Bupa Great Birmingham Run on 23 October organiser Brendan Foster said it was "fantastic" that the man he called "the greatest runner of all time" would run in the half-marathon. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/15272869.stm ---------- Post added at 14:10 ---------- Previous post was at 13:28 ---------- Jordyn Wieber won women's all-around gold as another World Gymnastics final went down to the wire in Tokyo Russia's Victoria Komova could not overhaul the American with her final score, finishing 0.033 marks behind her fellow 16-year-old. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/gymnastics/15288642.stm __________________ “The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself”