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Article: BILE WINS 1,500M AFRICANS SWEEP AT ROME
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 7, 1987
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ROME - Abdi Bile settled into a chair behind a microphone
in the interview room in Olympic Stadium yesterday afternoon, and
he was asked about the performance of the African runners in the
second World Championships of Track and Field. "Africans," he said,
"have been running well since the beginning of sport. It's not just
this year, it's many years."
Bile, who grew up in the village of Lasanod in Somalia, had
raced past favored Steve Cram of Great Britain in the men's 1,500
and left Cram and an impressive field in his wake as he thundered
home in 3 minutes 36.80 seconds to set up an African sweep of the
three men's middle- and long-distance races yesterday and complete
a sweep of ...