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Over a thousand of Hararis from several countries are in dalas us for the annual Harari Sport and Cultural tournament. The organizers are working hard to make the event special of all kind. A comprehensive and ambitious event would never been possible without commitment and dedication of our volunteers around the world. Our Credit Will be forwarded for those who committed their time and energy for us to celebrate and network with other Hararis. Thanks and congratulations to the organizers, volunteers, and countless others who have been working hard to put this day together.
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The rainbow Legends
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Sports and Legends
kananisa and fatuma roba
Ethiopian Athletes:
In the second part of the 20-th century, many of Ethiopia’s proudest moments had come when one of her children won a major international athletics competition. The legendary Abebe Bikila gave humanity lasting images of triumph, humbleness and victory. Who will forget the site of this man running bare-foot in the cobbles of Rome-totally unexpected and unassuming-only to win the most prestigious of all running feats, the Marathon? How about the Mexico City Olympics of 1968 when injury sidelined Abebe? Sport writers and broadcasters had ruled about a victory by an Ethiopian when the light-hearted but brave Mamo Wolde run the race of his life to bring the Gold medal to his country.
How about Derartu Tulu and her victory lap in Barcelona in 1992? Ethiopia’s green, yellow and red flew high and tall in beautiful Barcelona and a legend was born. The mind races to Atlanta in 1996. A hot and humid day and the women’s marathon. Who had expected the humble but strong-as-steel Ethiopian queen by the name of Fatuma Roba to lead the race almost unchallenged all the way to the finish line? Fatuma is now a legend by her own right and a familiar winner in all major women’s marathon races across the Globe.
And then there is the Lion himself-Haile Gebre Selassie (also known as Emperor Gabe by his fans around the world). Ethiopians call him "Jegnaw" (Fearless Hero). Haile is a man declared by the world press as the best long-distance runner that has ever lived on the planet. This is a man who breaks and makes 5-6 records in a single year in distances varying from 2 miles to 5K, 10K and the Marathon. This is a man who takes a whole team of runners from Kenya, Morocco and Algeria by himself and wins races so decisively. So much has been written about this humble, affable and modest modern Ethiopia’s ambassador to the world. Haile has set a personal goal of winning the most prestigious long-distance run-the Marathon in the near future. All sport-lovers around the world await his triumph that essentially is a triumph of the will, the mind and the body that is common in all of us.
As the legend continues, Kenenisa Bekele, seems poised to take Ethiopian athletics and dominance in long distance running to newer heights - to heights even the unforgettable Abebe Bikila could not have dreamt of.
This outpost on cyberspace documents the triumphs of these men and women that have brought pride and unforgettable moments of sportsmanship to sport lovers around the Globe
Haile at his Best
Victory poem
Victory Poem for ABABA BIKILA
(Written by Taddele G Hiwot, October 27 1973)
Abebe Bikila
With you
Our dreams
Never broken.
Born in 33
Reborn that 73
The foot soldier
Of forty years
Led Ethiopians to run.
This medal avalanche
Abe the shepherd boy
The kid of Jan Meda
First ran with the sheep
Ran with horses and mules
Too deep at heart
Until autos run over him
And this said he in silence:
We are the Ethiopians
Whose lions made to sleep
Need the ran twice as fast!"
Left Ethiopia
This medal avalanche,
With short steady pace
Unconquered will,
Across boarders of Rome,
Troubling the heart of men
And made our flag to fly
Right above:
Dead and gone Mussolini
Then and then,
Abebe Led Mamo followed
Ethiopia led
Kenya followed
Made us friends among nations
Running for Victory
With that Abe's Legacy.
October 27 1973
The Day Abebe Bikila flowered
Written by Taddele G Hiwot
PS: The original was printed on Ethiopian Herald
the day Abebe Bikila rested his victorious heart.
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Mohamed Ali
Muhammad Ali, arguably the greatest boxer of all time and without doubt the most flamboyant character in sporting history, was born on 12 January 1942 to Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. and Odessa at Louisville in Kentucky, USA. He was named Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. He took up boxing at the age of 12 when somebody stole his bicycle. At 18, he won the light-heavyweight boxing gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
Ali would sleep with the gold medal round his neck ever since he won it at Rome. He was given a hero's welcome home, but realized that he was still being treated as a 'black' and a 'slave'. He once had a fight in a restaurant meant exclusively for 'whites' and then had to fight off a gang of hoodlums to save his medal. That night, disgusted with the racist attitude of Americans, he went to the Jefferson County Bridge in Louisville and tossed his Olympic gold medal - which had taken him six years of blood, sweat and tears to win - down the Ohio River.
Known as the 'Louisville Lip', Ali fought boxing greats like Floyd Patterson, Sonny 'Big Ugly Bear' Liston, 'Smokin' Joe' Frazier, George Foreman, and Leon Spinks during a long and successful career. He was stripped of the title after he refused to be drafted for the Vietnam War in 1967. Joe Frazier then beat him in an epic fight in 1971 when he was making a comeback after serving a ban. But Ali came back to win the coveted title of the Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World an unprecedented three times. He beat George Foreman in 1974 and then lost the title. He came back in 1978 to beat Leon Spinks to win it for the third time.
Early in his career, Ali would even predict the round in which he would knockout his opponent. Pronouncements like "I am fast, I am pretty and I am the Greatest" and "I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee" are now legend. Large audiences would gather to watch his bouts and Ali would say, " I know that more than half of that crowd comes to see me beat because of my big mouth!"
Ali wrote poetry when he was relaxing away from the ring. He once addressed a bunch of students at one of the premier colleges in the USA and he gave them the following advice:
Stay in college; get the knowledge
Stay there till you are through.
If they can make Penicillin out of mouldy bread
They sure'll make something out of you!
Muhammad Ali now lives in Berrien Springs, Michigan, USA and suffers from Parkinson's disease. He travels round the world doing social and religious work for his is still one of the most recognized faces on Earth. And decades after he burst upon the scene as a gold-medal winner at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, he remains a magical figure, known and loved throughout the world.
Muhammad Ali's daughter Laila is a boxer of world renown.
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Pele
Pelé
He dominated soccer for two decades with a passion matched only by that of his fans throughout the world
By HENRY KISSINGER
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Five Captivating Romances: When Love Was the Adventure
Monday, June 14, 1999
Heroes walk alone, but they become myths when they ennoble the lives and touch the hearts of all of us. For those who love soccer, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, generally known as PelŽ, is a hero.
Muhammad Ali
The American G.I.
Diana, Princess of Wales
Anne Frank
Billy Graham
Che Guevara
E. Hillary & T. Norgay
Helen Keller
The Kennedys
Bruce Lee
Charles Lindbergh
Harvey MIlk
Marilyn Monroe
Mother Teresa
Emmeline Pankhurst
Rosa Parks
Pelé
Jackie Robinson
Andrei Sakharov
Bill Wilson
Performance at a high level in any sport is to exceed the ordinary human scale. But Pelé's performance transcended that of the ordinary star by as much as the star exceeds ordinary performance. He scored an average of a goal in every international game he played — the equivalent of a baseball player's hitting a home run in every World Series game over 15 years. Between 1956 and 1974, Pelé scored a total of 1,220 goals — not unlike hitting an average of 70 home runs every year for a decade and a half.
While he played, Brazil won the World Cup, staged quadrennially, three times in 12 years. He scored five goals in a game six times, four goals 30 times and three goals 90 times. And he did so not aloofly or disdainfully — as do many modern stars — but with an infectious joy that caused even the teams over which he triumphed to share in his pleasure, for it is no disgrace to be defeated by a phenomenon defying emulation.
He was born across the mountains from the great coastal cities of Brazil, in the impoverished town of Tres Coracoes. Nicknamed Dico by his family, he was called PelŽ by soccer friends, a word whose origins escape him. Dico shined shoes until he was discovered at the age of 11 by one of the country's premier players, Waldemar de Brito. Four years later, De Brito brought Pelé to Sao Paulo and declared to the disbelieving directors of the professional team in Santos, "This boy will be the greatest soccer player in the world." He was quickly legend. By the next season, he was the top scorer in his league. As the Times of London would later say, "How do you spell Pelé? G-O-D.
