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In second place, but victorious
It was a run that would have brought him a medal at last year’s world championships in Osaka, but Haile Gebrselassie (pictured right) was not being so presumptuous. As he crossed the line in Hengelo, smiling and offering a thumbs-up for the cameras, he found himself in a strange position: on a track in The Netherlands where he had broken numerous world records.
