Short odds for Bekele's distance hat-trick
Independent Online, South Africa - August 20, 2007
Who's the greatest? Kenenisa Bekele can take another step towards settling that argument with his third successive 10 000m world title.
With Haile Gebrselassie's 5 000m and 10 000m records already in the bag, the diminutive Ethiopian can now move towards the Emperor's 1993-1999 haul of four successive 10 000m world titles.
"I am not thinking a lot about that at the moment," said Bekele, who also took his hero's Olympic title over the distance in Athens.
"It would be an honour to emulate Haile in that regard, but my priority now is to recover from Mombasa."
Bekele's shock failure to finish this year's world cross-country race in Kenya may have punctured the aura of invincibility, but he has already shown he can deal with setbacks ...