Bekele and Dibaba lead Ethiopia’s strong team of 27 for Edinburgh

Five-time double World cross country champion Kenenisa Bekele and two-time female long course champion Tirunesh Dibaba will lead Ethiopia’s strong team for the 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh, Scotland (30 March 2008).

But Bekele and Dibaba are not the only strong favourites in this team hoping to heal the wounds of a disastrous outing last year in Mombasa where the country was reduced to two individual medals and a single team title, its worst showing in its twenty-seven-year competition history.

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