If Haile Gebrselassie was peeved at being upstaged by a couple of in-form Kenyans in the Marathon Singapore 10k last Sunday, he soon retrieved his equanimity, and was mulling over at least, “one more marathon,” before retiring to the celebrity circuit, and a leap into national politics. He admits to 41, though many, even in […]
It may have been his first sight of Singapore’s pristine clean streets with super smooth surfaces that underlined Haile Gebrselassie’s view here today that technical innovation as much as Kenyan-Ethiopia rivalry was going to lead to the first sub-two hour marathon in a decade or so. But at the tail-end of a career which has […]