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  • The petty result of the second leg match of the Walias with Algeria

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    The Ethiopian national side was forced to share the spoils and settle for a point after being held 3:3 in a match the side played on its home soil on March 20 2008 EC with its Algerian counterpart: the game was part of group 10 qualifying matches for booking a place in the African cup of nations tournament to be hosted by Gabon next year.

    In a thrilling game and enticing movement the Walias pressed their opponents and managed to put themselves ahead, thanks to a goal scored by Getaneh Kebede at the 28th minute of the first half; and the away side was able to go in to the second half one each scoring a goal on the counter attack by Islam Suleiman.

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  • Despite Doping Concerns Ethiopia Finished Second on the Portland Oregon Indoor Championship

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    Ethiopia, one of five countries under the watchful eye of the IAAF over concern for their drug-testing systems, dominated the long races to finish second at the world indoor championships that ended on Sunday. Led by world record holder Genzeba Dibaba, the African nation swept the top two spots in the women's 3,000 metres and claimed gold in the men's 3,000m on Sunday. The strong showing came a day after Ethiopian-born athletes took the first four places in the women's 1,500m.

    "I think it is the altitude and hard training," Dibaba told Reuters when asked why Ethiopian men and women are so impressive in the distance events.

    Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, Ukraine and Belarus have been identified by IAAF president Sebastian Coe as countries in need of "critical care" because of their drug-test systems. "Ethiopia and Morocco -- as a matter of urgency -- need a robust testing program put in place," Coe said. "Kenya, Ukraine and Belarus need to get compliant by the end of the year." The countries are in no immediate danger of being banned from athletics and missing the Olympics, Coe said.

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  • Training camp in Kenya and Ethiopia. A comparison.

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    For the last four years we prepared our running spring season in Kenya, more exactly in Iten, in the camp Kerio View. Inspring 2015 we went for the first time not to Kenya, but to the neighbouring country Ethiopia. Kenya has a population of 40 Mill. people and has half the size of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is three times larger than Germany and has a population of 100 Mill.

    Why Ethiopia and not Kenya like the last years? We love Kenya, the people, the landscape and the atmosphere. Ethiopia came to our mind because we knew that our coach Renato Canova will stay there from January up to the beginning of March. We’re interested in Ethiopia because there is a lot of unknown that we can discover, the new training conditions, the foreign culture and we want to see, where and under which conditions the Ethiopian runners are training. Since autumn 2014, Canova coaches Kenenisa Bekele, who has built a camp for athletes in Sululta, a place near Addis Abeba at an altitude of 2750m. Canova was there with the Chinese national team that he also coaches. And we joined the group.

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