Ahmed’s incredible, trademark kick earned him an Olympic silver medal, the first for a Canadian in the Games at this gruelling distance
The disappointment of an outcome like that is soothed by silver. Not so when all you have is regret.
Had it been a 5,100-metre race, he might even have been able to track down Cheptegei. That’s what Canadian Justyn Knight thought he saw from his vantage point up the track. It wasn’t the outcome Knight wanted, nor was it the race Ahmed expected, rather the one forced on him by the Ugandans, who took turns pushing the pace from the gun to the finish line. It was a team tactic to be sure, one designed to burn out as many opponents as possible.
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