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Author Topic: How fast was Mohamed Ali over 10 K?  (Read 2986 times)
Sasha Pachev
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« on: July 01, 2009, 11:56:01 am »

Warning - this is a trick question.
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« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2009, 12:37:30 pm »

29:24.14?   
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« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2009, 12:38:51 pm »

Mohamed Ali Aboosh that is. Credit Wikipedia.
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« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2009, 01:18:12 pm »

Wikipedia is a great resource, but sometimes it is wrong. You've got the right Mohamed Ali, but he was faster than that.  His 10000 PR is 27:04.92. More info at

http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/biographies/country=ETH/athcode=211464/index.html   

Now here is the sad thing. Little else is known about him. I could not find one media article or web page that would reveal anything about him beside his times. I thought maybe he would get at least one media article just because of his name. Come on, Mohamed Ali running a serious world-class time in a 10 K, that should be sensational enough for the media, shouldn't?

So we have somebody that runs 9 seconds faster than the current American record, and manages to live in relative obscurity. He is faster than Abdi and Meb. Why such a stark difference in media exposure? The answer is simple. His dad did not immigrate to the US when he was a kid. His English is probably not that good if he speaks it at all. If you are an Ethiopian, you are expected to perform at a much higher level to get noticed. This makes want to go to Ethiopia to teach English and computer basics.
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