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I'm probably a lot more closer in the 1500m to the world record than I am in the 5000m.

It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

1500 metre. I am the king.

It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.