On the weekend of the 2003 New York City Marathon, I bumped into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Gebrselassie" class="extiw" title="en:Haile Gebrselassie">Haile Gebrselassie</a> speaking to a crowd of runners in orange while walking through Central Park. Haile <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/sports/othersports/11run.html">mentioned</a>, in announcing that he's running a half-marathon in New York this August, that he'd been to NYC before, but not to race.
<ul><li>derivative work: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nesnad" title="User:Nesnad">Nesnad</a> (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nesnad" title="User talk:Nesnad"><span class="signature-talk">talk</span></a>)</li>
<li><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haile_Gebrselassie_NewYork_2003.jpg" title="File:Haile Gebrselassie NewYork 2003.jpg">Haile_Gebrselassie_NewYork_2003.jpg</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/95123580@N00">pjmorse</a> from Somerville, Massachusetts, USA</li></ul>
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