World Athletics Cross Country Championships

He's excited.

And I must say, do you remember when the World Cross Country Championships went to East Africa and Uganda? Yeah.

I don't.

That was

She already had a 10-second lead by 5K, 1512.

She went on to win in 6515, won by 50 seconds, just demolished everyone the same way she demolished everyone at the World Cross Country Championships in January.

She ran 808 on the track in Monaco over the summer.

Robert, you wrote in the week that was that given the injury to Beatrice Chebet right now, she is the world's best long-distance runner outside of the marathon on the women's side.

Like, in Budapest, she was the one who chose to make it an honest race and was unafraid to go to the front.

When I saw her in Tallahassee, uh, during the World Cross Country Championships 2K relay, um, she also was, uh, you know, out there leading and taking it to, to Jess Hull.

And so I really applaud her fearlessness, uh, when it comes to racing.

And she, you know, got rewarded for it this time around by winning gold in the women's mile, 4:22 over Ferwneh Hailu.

Then 15K, 14-- uh, 46:17, 15:38, and then she kind of holds that to hit 20K in 1:01:56.

That's a 15:39, and then finished in 65:15, which is a women's only world record and a second faster than Perizhipe Chirchir's old mark, which I'm glad that she got under, because that comes with a $50,000 bonus from World Athletics, and had she have, you know, been so dominant in this race and then tied the record, not gotten the money, it would have stung quite a bit, but $50,000 makes things better.

So it's a bigger victory than her World Cross Country Championships title, which she won that one by 42 seconds.

She wins this one by 50 seconds.

So I would think that we need to find a location.

We did this when the World Cross Country Championships were in Kenya.

We had the U.S. champs in Boulder.

2007, we had about 15,000 people.

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Um, I believe the only African country he'd been to was Uganda for World Cross Country, um, back, I don't know, maybe eight, uh, six years ago now or something.

Yeah

Seven, eight years ago.