As Kenenisa Bekele strode the last few yards to the finishing line of the long race at the 34th IAAF World Cross Country Championships here at the windswept Seaside Park in Fukuoka, he held up both hands in front of himself and, without breaking stride, counted out numbers 1 to 10.
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Men's Long Race, Fukuoka - Bekele's makes it ten but then suggests no more!

As Kenenisa Bekele strode the last few yards to the finishing line of the long race at the 34th IAAF World Cross Country Championships here at the windswept Seaside Park in Fukuoka, he held up both hands in front of himself and, without breaking stride, counted out numbers 1 to 10.... Read more

Last year’s World Junior Cross Country champion Gelete Burika Bati today succeeded in adding the senior women’s short race crown despite gale force winds which blasted the course which is situated on the Fukuoka’s flat shore on the Genkai Sea.
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Women's Short Race, Fukuoka - Not even a gale can hold back Burka

Last year’s World Junior Cross Country champion Gelete Burika Bati today succeeded in adding the senior women’s short race crown despite gale force winds which blasted the course which is situated on the Fukuoka’s flat shore on the Genkai Sea.... Read more

Mangata Ndiwa led Kenya to its eighth straight junior men's team championship this afternoon at Uminonakamichi Seaside Park in Fukuoka, with his teammate Leonard Komon finishing immediately behind him.
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Men's Junior Race, Fukuoka - Eight straight for Kenya

Mangata Ndiwa led Kenya to its eighth straight junior men's team championship this afternoon at Uminonakamichi Seaside Park in Fukuoka, with his teammate Leonard Komon finishing immediately behind him.... Read more

It is unarguable that international cross country reached a turning point at around 3.30 in the afternoon at Fukuoka today.
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A crossroads for cross country

It is unarguable that international cross country reached a turning point at around 3.30 in the afternoon at Fukuoka today.... Read more

Five years after his older brother won the men's World Cross Country junior race in Ostend, Tariku Bekele arrived in Fukuoka looking for a championship of his own. Where Kenenisa had been a family trailblazer, with only his own results to speak for him (including a silver in the 2001 short race before winning the junior race,) Tariku bore the expectations that come with a heavy name.
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The downside of dominance

Five years after his older brother won the men's World Cross Country junior race in Ostend, Tariku Bekele arrived in Fukuoka looking for a championship of his own. Where Kenenisa had been a family trailblazer, with only his own results to speak for him (including a silver in the 2001 short race before winning the junior race,) Tariku bore the expectations that come with a heavy name.... Read more