Grieving Champion has His Toughest Ever Battle ; Just Weeks After Kenenisa Bekele's Fiancee Died While They Were Out On a Run, the Heartbroken Ethiopian Star Is Back in the Spotlight.
Evening Standard - London › March 16, 2005
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WHEN he sits lost in thought for hours on end by his fiancee's headstone, nobody really knows how Kenenisa Bekele feels. A quiet one, who always did seem a bit withdrawn at the best of times, he deals with the worst of times by retreating into himself and burying his grief deep.
Even when the most wonderful distance runner the world has seen tried, courageously, to break his public silence at a recent meeting, it was too painful. "I have my girlfriend in my heart; it is difficult . . . " Bekele struggled to explain, losing the fight to stop the tears welling.See the full content of this document
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Grieving Champion has His Toughest Ever Battle ; Just Weeks After Kenenisa Bekele's Fiancee Died While They Were Out On a Run, the Heartbroken Ethiopian Star Is Back in the Spotlight.
It is 10 weeks since he and fiancee, Alem Techale, were out for their last training run together on the outskirts of Addis Ababa.
Here were Ethiopia's golden couple - Olympic 10,000metres champion Bekele and his shy 18-year-old soulmate, ...See the full content of this document
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