AFRICAN BATTLE RENEWED
LIKE MO FARAH, one of the world’s greatest ever female athletes – Tirunesh Dibaba – is seeking to defend her title.
Dibaba has won medals in four different Olympics, including three golds – double gold in 2008 and the 10,000m title in 2012.
She won the Great North Run in 2012 in 67:35 and was third in 2013 in an even faster 66:56.
She has also won nine world titles but incredibly, despite smashing her 10,000m PB in Rio, she is not the favourite.
In the Olympics, she ran the fourth fastest ever time of 29:42.56 to take 12 seconds off her PB, but she ended up a distant third.