Tamirat Tola: From being left out of the team to bringing home Marathon Gold for Ethiopia

This is Deji Ogeyingbo’s feature on Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola, the winner of the 2024 Men’s Olympic Marathon on August 10, 2024. Tamirat Tola won his first marathon finish in 2017 at the Dubai Marathon (Tamirat had DNFed in Berlin in 2015).  Tola continues the great Ethiopian tradition in the marathon, which dates back to 1960 […]