| Comment | more running trivia: at the 2008 world cross-country championships in Edinburgh 6 runners from the Eritrean team claimed asylum in the UK
they subsequently won the right to stay, moved to Glasgow and joined Shettleston Harriers en masse, which is why if you look at club races in the Glasgow area you see course records held by folks like Weynay Ghebresilasie and Tsegai Tewelde, who have gone on to represent GB/Scotland at Olympic and Commonwealth games
so if you live on the Southside and see an Eritrean flying past you in the park, it's likely one of these guys |
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