Are Abeba Aregawi already set aside as the queen of the women’s 1500 meters
I suspect it.
The image of a tortured Aregawi behind a glorious Sifan Hassan I have seen in three straight races now.
This time it cost a European Championship gold.
I was not direct amazed when I sat there in the stands and saw Sifan Hassan playing home this European Championship victory. I had seen her do the same thing in Paris Diamond League in early July and the Scottish Glasgow two weeks later.
It was no coincidence. It was not a bang. The expectant the Dutch was the favorite even among Swedish game at home in Sweden.
An extremely charming 21-year-old who almost apologizes when she wins and who even got Abeba Aregawi laugh at the international press conference afterwards .
That was the only time that the 24-year-old Aregawi smiled that day. The two former Ethiopian hands belong to the same Dutch stall, speak the same language and both have found their new home countries.
Hard build Aregawis brand
Sifan Hassan came to Holland as a 15-year-old refugee.
Then there were no plans to become a runner, but löpartalangen comes with mother’s milk in a country like Ethiopia. She was training to be a nurse when she raced in a Dutch half marathon and won instantly.
The rest is history. In three years, she lowered her personal best in the 1,500 meters by more than 23 seconds they 3.57,00 she tops the world statistics on this year.
She is now loved in their new homeland, where she became Dutch citizens only in November last year. It’s only nine months ago. But progress since then has been enormous. World number one at 1500 meters and the European Championship yesterday. Abeba Aregawi not have the same huge popularity at home in Sweden, despite all the success.
It is a sensitive issue, but Aregawi married to his Swedish citizenship and then moved back to Ethiopia in virtually The moment she got her Swedish passport in hand.
Her Swedish vocabulary is minimal and this in EM has Swedish Athletics Association had put big money to hire an interpreter just to be able to interview her.
Then this is a girl who earned millions in recent years to be world number 1 500 meters.
In addition we had the winter crisis of credibility and the lies surrounding the divorce. It is difficult to build a brand on the premises and I understand that her Swedish manager Keith Karlsson has one of the career toughest job trying to make her beloved by the people.
Now it gets even harder when she’s not the same obvious winner longer.
Sifan Hassan can fool Sweden to claim gold in the day when she runs 5000 meters towards the expectant Swedish Meraf Bahta. Hassan is one of Europe even at that distance. Bahta is second.
The same order in the case. Again. I dread it.
I said before the European Championship started the Dutch Dafne Schippers would be the championship’s big star when it was all over.
It is she.
Largest European talent ever
double gold at 100 and 200 meters and the new world number 200 with sensational winning time 22.03. It is 31 hundredths of a second under her previous Dutch record set earlier this summer. No European has run faster since 1995 and we are talking DDR and an equally doped Russia.
Dafne dreamed of becoming a new Carolina Klüft in heptathlon until as recently as a month ago. Now I think she can dream about anything else. As to become the world’s fastest woman.
Europe has never seen such a female sprint talent.
And she has just turned 22, I have not actually seen a major breakthrough since a young Usain Bolt shocked the world with his two world records at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
And we all know what has happened since.
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