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Abebe Bikila Quotes

1932–1973 Ethiopia

Shambel Abebe Bikila (August 7, 1932 – October 25, 1973) was an Ethiopian marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion. He was the first Ethiopian Olympic gold medalist, winning his first gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while running barefoot.

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I have accepted these victories as I accept this tragedy. I must embrace both circumstances as facts of life and find happiness.

I accepted those victories as I accepted this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.

I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Abebe Bikila (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.