From: yohannes debesai (ydebesai@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2008 - 23:41:15 EDT
Eritrea in China: Final preparation for the Olympic games
Zerisenay, Teklemariam, Kidane and Nebyat got to Beijing on Tuesday and were made to fly to a high altitude training area the next day. Reporting from the training area Dr. Tesfaslassie Eyob said that they are all in good condition.
EAAA talked with all the runners and coaches. Their spirit is high and are making the highest preparation.
The Eritrean runners are humble, a little bit shy and did not say much. Their message was " Ab Awet Yerakibena !". Coach Levingston and coach Abebe are with the team that is about three hours flight away from Beijing and have confidence in the runners and the tactic they are going to play.
Hais Wolday, who is going to take part in the 1500m race, has left the high altitude training to Beijing. Coach Levingston has accompanied Hais for the three hour flight to Beijing while coach Abebe stays with the rest of the team.
Hais is running the 1500m second heat at 19:19 Beijing time On Friday the 15th of August( 07:19am Washington, DC time).
Zerisenay, Teklemariam, Kidane and Nebyat are going to leave the training area and fly to Beijing after two days.
Nebyat is running the marathon at 07:30 am on Sunday Beijing time ( Saturday 7:30pm DC time.)
Zerisenay, Teklemariam and Kidane are running the 10000m on Sunday at 22:45 Beijing time ( 10:30am Washington, DC time)
Rustom Fessehatsion, Journalist for the Olympic team, has said : " The runners are in good mood. The embassy and the Olympic team has coordinated things well and things are running good and we just wait for the events."
Eritrea has now the know how and can outplay the top countries in running in tactics.
Please visit www.eaaarunners.org for information about the Olympic team performances.
EAAA also invites all Eritreans in the DC metro are to come watch the big race of Zerisenay, Teklemariam and Kidane on Sunday at 10:30am in ECCC- AT 6th and L -Washington- DC. Please join us on Saturday at 7:30pm in cheering Nebyat in the women's marathon.
We believe that Eritrea will have good shot of medal in the 10,000m by Zerisenay and marathon by Yonas or Yared.
The future great runners namely Teklemariam and Kidane are expected to perform well in the 10000 meters and dance with Zerisenay in the Beijing stadium.
Long live Eritrean Athletics,
Yohannes Debesai,
Chairman, EAAA-transition
WWW.EAAARUNNERS.ORG
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