Defending champion Sifan Hassan took second place in her Olympic 5,000 metres qualifying heat on Friday with a typical last-minute charge to overtake seven women in the home straight and finish a tenth of a second behind Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon. Hassan, 31, who took the distance running world by storm last year when she won the London Marathon on her …
Attempting to defend her 5,000 and 10,000-meter titles at the Olympics isn’t enough for Ethiopian-born Dutch runner Sifan Hassan. “I can’t tell you I’m going to get the gold medal in every event,” Ms. Hassan said Wednesday. “I’m curious what is going to happen,” MS. Hassan said. And how I’m going to recover.” Ms. Hassan could have run a fourth …
PARIS — Attempting to defend her 5,000- and 10,000-meter titles at the Olympics isn’t enough for Ethiopian-born Dutch runner Sifan Hassan. “I can’t tell you I’m going to get the gold medal in every event,” Hassan said Wednesday. “It is very hard.” Hassan’s program will look The 5,000 heats on Friday and the final on Monday. But now she can …
