Tuesday, August 12, 2008

African Hall of Fame


Exactly 38 years ago the Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila won Africa’s first ever gold medal in the Olympic Games. Bikila began a glittering athletics tradition of African world beaters. In April 2008, the continent’s top sporting authorities inaugurated an “African Hall of Fame” to honour these sporting achievements. Daniel Brown went to Addis Ababa to follow the gala event more..http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/104/article_1273.asp

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