It´s THE debut on the 42,195 k in 2009 - Zersenay Tadese
Tadese is a double world half marathon champion and became a national hero when he won the Olympic 10,000m bronze medal in Athens in 2004, the first Olympic medal for Eritrea in any sport. He also won the World Cross Country Championships in 2007 beating the great Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele in the blistering heat of Mombasa.
But at 09.45 on Sunday when he sets off from the start line of the Flora London Marathon in Greenwich he knows he'll be dipping his toes in uncharted waters. "I really don't know how I'll feel," he says. "I am running the marathon for the first time, so yes, I am a bit nervous.
But at 09.45 on Sunday when he sets off from the start line of the Flora London Marathon in Greenwich he knows he'll be dipping his toes in uncharted waters. "I really don't know how I'll feel," he says. "I am running the marathon for the first time, so yes, I am a bit nervous.
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