Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Who is Derartu Tulu? Anyone? She's a former long-distance runner from Ethiopia who won gold medals at the 1992 and 2000 Olympics ...

SA distance queen Elana Meyer and Ethiopian legend Derartu Tulu reunited at the scene of their 1992 Olympic battle and historic post-race celebration in Barcelona this week, donating the neutral flag ...

It was, of course, a symbolic moment for South Africa, but the historic battle between Elana Meyer and Derartu Tulu at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics was equally important for the African continent and ...

When Derartu Tulu won the 2009 ING New York City Marathon, she surprised everybody—not least herself. Tulu is one of the great athletes in women’s running history. Her career spans the better part of ...

For the first time in 27 years, an American man has won the NYC Marathon. Meb Keflezighi — who achieved Olympic bronze in Athens — crossed the line at 2:09:15. The 5-foot-5½, 122-pound Eritrean ...

In so doing they represented two historic narratives, only one of which could be the story of the night. Would Elana Meyer mark the return to the Olympics of South Africa, after a 32-year gap, by ...

Ethiopa’s Derartu Tulu leads South African Elana Meyer during her gold-medal run in the 10,000 meters at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. (Rusty Kennedy/AP) Perspective by Hannah Borenstein “It just may ...

In 1992 Ethiopian Derartu Tulu became the first black African woman to win Olympic gold, pulling off a spectacular victory to triumph in the 10,000m final at the Barcelona Games. This is her story.

Ethiopia's double Olympic gold medallist Derartu Tulu today led a delegation of athletes from Tigray to its capital Mek'ele as part of a peace process in the troubled region. On August 7, 1992, in ...