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Elite athletes: They're quick, competitive and nearly 40

Aging athletes don't have the agility they had in their youth. Minor injuries accumulate and become major ones. And by the time they hit their mid-30s and 40s, they're considered geriatric -- that's the conventional wisdom.

Q & A with Sebastian Coe

Sebastian Coe is one of the greatest middle-distance runners ever to step foot on to an athletics track. There are few people better qualified to comment on the talent and effort it takes to become a world beater. Here he gives CNN his views of Haile Gebrselassie.

Q & A with Haile Gebrselassie

Haile Gebrselassie talks to CNN about his childhood, his family, his country and what motivates him to keep on running.

SI.com: David Epstein: Ailing Trammell not giving up fight

It is hard to imagine a scenario where Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie, perhaps the greatest distance runner ever, could pass through a crowd of hundreds of track and field reporters and not be stopped for a question.

Time.com: Is Beijing Manipulating Air Pollution Statistics?

The withdrawal of the world's leading marathon runner from this summer's event over concerns about air quality highlights the stakes in a spat between Chinese authorities and an American researcher

Q & A with Dr Yilma Berta

Dr Yilma Berta has known Haile Gebrselassie since he was a junior athlete. CNN spoke to Dr Berta in Ethiopia during preparations for Gebrselassie's world record attempt at the Berlin Marathon.

Q & A with Tefera Ghedamu

Tefera Ghedumu is a popular talk show host on Ethiopian TV and has known Haile Gebrselassie for a over a decade. He tells CNN his thoughts on how and why Gebrselassie has made such a positive impact in his homeland.

Ethiopia set for millennium party

More than seven years after most of the world marked the start of the 21st century, Ethiopia is putting the finishing touches to its own millennium bash.

SI.com: Brian Cazeneuve: Greatness ... on and off the track

See his distinctive stride and you could read a chapter of Haile Gebrselassie's life, the telltale peek at the world's greatest living distance runner, blowing through Central Park, then Times Square and the streets of Gotham as the Ethiopian legend ran away with the New York Half Marathon on Sunday morning.

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