Running Tidbits 19-Dec-2006

• We did not know it then but for the record, ex-Ethiopian middle distance runner Maryam Yusuf Jamal beat a man to win here 800M gold medal at last week’s Asian games. The Indian runner who won the silver medal in the women's 800 meters failed a gender test and was stripped of the medal.



• Race Results Weekly has chosen Mesert Defar and Kenenisa Bekele as Runners of the Year saying...
  
  

  Bekele and Defar had such excellent years that we concluded our internal debate relatively quickly
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  However, choosing Bekele was easier than choosing Defar because her compatriot, Tirunesh Dibaba, also had a spectacular year.