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I'm the first from Ethiopia getting 1500-meter world record; that is amazing.

I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.

For me, I've not really focused on a world record. I'm just trying to put a complete race together, and when I do that, then fast times will come.

I have been dreaming of an outdoor world record forever. Now I want them all: the 1500, the 5000, even the 800.

I love the 1,500 meters. I knew that, if I had to do it to win, I'd run under 4:05. That means I could pick up 100 points, maybe even 150 points, on anybody in the world.

In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.

The 1500 m. record was considered impossible to break.

I swim almost every day, a thousand meters.