The Canadian team for the Berlin World Championships was officially named today. AC even made a slide show with music, I figured it would be a crappy song but I was impressed with what they picked. http://www.athletics.ca/berlin2009/The Kenyan and Ethiopian teams were also named this week and it looks like (no surprise) they are going to have great marathon squads even with the absence of Haile G, Duncan Kibet, James Kwambai and Sammy Wanjiru.
I remember showing up to the Western International XC meet back in University and hearing another team making fun of us saying “you always know when Guelph shows up because of the yellow school bus”.
We joked (we weren’t cocky enough to actually say it) that the other teams should know when we showed up because they were going to be fighting it out for second place. Well even Boston Champ Deriba Merga rides the yellow school bus sometimes (proof taken with my cell phone). He’s probably one of the favorites to win the Berlin Marathon despite this being his third marathon this year.
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