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結果大致出了,gun time 1:44:36,排名什麼的則尚未整理好,相信要待明白才公佈。
但不明白為何net time 也是這個時間。我肯定自己不是在preference start 行列,開始時最少都要用20秒才行到起點。 不過如何也沒甚關係,反正也不是PB
http://www.theage.com.au/nationa ... -20081012-4z6e.html
睇報紙才知道,今次melbourne marathon 第四名的埃塞俄比亞選手,就是有位不時過來我跑開個度跟操的師兄,他好像上一、兩個月才來到墨爾本,第一次來時他連跑鞋也沒有,最後經facebook聯絡眾跑友,給他弄來一對合他呎寸的跑鞋。
我上星期二才跟他吹了幾句,我還跟他說什麼埃塞俄比亞以前叫阿比西尼亞 (竟會打開這樣奇怪的話匣子,好明顯我並不擅長用英語傾談)。其實個時我都知佢咱步唔少野,因為佢話會aim for 2:20,但估唔到佢背後原來有這樣的故事。要藉跑步來尋求政治庇護,實在難以想像那裡的國情。他年紀唔大得我好多,卻要離鄉別井,四處流離,實不勝感慨。
"YESTERDAY he was a champion, coming fourth in the Melbourne marathon, but if he were back home in Ethiopia, Tesfaye W. Jiru would be in prison.
Jiru was one of several refugees and asylum seekers who, with the help of two professional athletes from Ethiopia, used the marathon to show what people from other countries have to offer Australia.
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Jiru, 28, was one of Ethiopia's top athletes when, after competing in Cyprus last year in a Master Marathon, he returned home and was arrested by Ethiopian security forces.
He was held for 15 days and released only after a friend put up the money for him.
As he explained yesterday, his tribal group was engaged in conflict with the Government.
"They say you are a terrorist and you are helping a terrorist group and I say I didn't and why would I return here if that was true," he said.
While in Australia in May for the Great Ocean Road International marathon race at Apollo Bay, he called the friend who had bailed him out of jail.
"He told me don't come home. The Government has searched your home. They have taken your computer. They have taken documents," he said.
Jiru found himself unexpectedly having to apply for asylum after his friend convinced him that if he returned he would be imprisoned again.
Yesterday he ran under the banner of Melbourne's Asylum Seekers Resource Centre because it had helped him find accomodation and get settled in Melbourne.
His life at the moment is now "just running and studying English". "
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