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Legendary Gebrselassie sees chance to clean up athletics

Legendary distance runner Haile Gebrselassie today advised world leaders in athletics not to be bogged down by the unprecedented doping crisis that has hit the sport but to seize the opportunity and clean up the sport to the hilt.

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Legendary distance runner Haile Gebrselassie today advised world leaders in athletics not to be bogged down by the unprecedented doping crisis that has hit the sport but to seize the opportunity and clean up the sport to the hilt.

Ethiopian Gebrselassie, who is here in India to grace the New Delhi Marathon on Sunday, also asserted that athletics will come out stronger from the controversy that emerged from the Russian doping scandal.

"I think it (the unearthing of widespread doping in Russia) is bad as well as good. It's bad because people are shocked by the news of this scandal. It's good in the sense that we have a chance to clean up the sport," 43-year-old Gebrselassie, who won a gold medal each in the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, told

 

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