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I Think If You Come First With A New World Record, That Is The Best.

Some People Start A Sport Just To Reduce Weight, Or Some Say, 'my Doctor Ordered Me To Run And Do Exercise', And For Others, They Run For Completely Different Benefits. But It Is Not Like That With Sport. We Need To Eat, We Need To Rest, But Also We Need To Run.

Many People Know That Ethiopia Is Poor. When I Break A World Record, Maybe People Get To Know Something Else About Ethiopia, Something Good. We Can't Make Planes Or Cars, We Don't Have The Materials. We Do What We Can.

When I Had No Shoes I Was Comfortable - I Used To Run Barefoot. When I Wore Shoes It Was Difficult. To Run In Shoes Was Ok, But At The Beginning Of My Career It Was Hard.

This Is What I Wanted. They Tell Me That London Is The Best Field In History. I Wanted To Be Part Of That. Because Everyone Will Be There It Will Be A Wonderful Challenge For Me. You Can See The Best Runners, How They Look, How They Run. For Me To Beat The Best Is What Counts.