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"Maybe I’m searching for some very hard or stressful things. I don’t know. Maybe for me to stay in this sport I have to find out what is possible or impossible?"

— Sifan Hassan

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Source: “Win or lose, it’s good for me to find out” – Sifan Hassan on her Chicago experiment by Views from the Concourse. October 4, 2023. Retrieved 10/11/2023.
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