Tirunesh Dibaba is a legend. So cute, so polite, so composed in her races and finally takes her race with seriousness to destroy the rest with that decisive angry cute face! Lol! I love her, love her races and I can't imagine races without her in the future.
To me, she is the greatest track and field athlete of all times. And she is back. The only competition she has, is her younger sister Genzebe Dibaba who seems to skip like a sprinter with already 6 world indoor records from 1500 to 5000m. Proud of them including elder sister Ejageyu. This is a very rare and unique breed of a family dynasty.
I just love the way Dibaba looked up the screen, only to see her team mate Meseret Defar and side by side, the lioness of Ethiopia found another gear and out kicked her team mate. Long live the Golden Jewel of Ethiopia and Sileshi. I consider myself lucky to have lived in this era and witness such an amazing woman with such ability. I can't wait to see you break the marathon record, I know it shall happen, and in my time.
An absolutely fabulous athlete. Definately the greatest female runner of all time. To go ten years unbeaten in the 10,000 metres is amazing. A smooth and beautiful runner
Looks like a Angel and Heart like a LION.. really she is a Legend and great .. Also she is ideal of women power.. Lots of Grand Salute DIBABA.. Go Ahead with your strength and passion.. My best wishes to You 💐💐💐💐
Its not just here superior athletic ability and running style. Her demeanour before and especially after her victories are queenly, classy, humble. She is the supreme ambassador for the sport.
Completely in agreement with this comment. Everything about this woman has been a joy to watch. A dove in peace, a tigress in war! My favourite athlete ever.
It appears to me that that softness and humility are characteristic of most African athletes, in particular those from Ethiopia. It always gives me a thrill to see her devastating performance at Paris, 2003 which made the world take notice of an athlete with whom many of the so-called pundits were barely familiar. Here's hoping we have not seen the last of this truly beautiful athlete.
Chic Noir29, thrilled to hear that! Thank you for letting me know. Shall look for it and, as usual, neglect my other duties as I spend hours overdosing on her videos. Tirunesh has a will of steel behind that quiet demeanour. You're right : if she has decided she's not done, then she is not!
Even though Defar is also a superstar, overall she is no match to Tirunesh. One may argue that if Tirunesh were to compete with men, she would find another gear to defeat them all. She is so awesome that i can't wait to see her win again at Rio this Summer.
"Chic Noir29" I still think Tirunesh will rebound despite her setbacks from the 1st place to a second or a third place. I suspect maternity activities affected her a bit, but clearly there is no sign of aging. Remember, when she finished a third place at Rio, that was still her personal best time, which proved that her pace was untouched.
Indeed these 5 runs of Dibaba are best.But for me her London olympic 10,000m is one of my bests as the finishing sprint is far different from the others.
One of the articles I read about the so-called Cohen Modal Haplotype mentioned that the Arsi in Ethiopia have this Kohanim sub-haplotype. The famous Dibaba family of distance runners is of Arsi background, according to my Tigrayan friend. They are well known for their strength and for their talent in breeding the best animals. One caution about the article is that you should take the deep time dating with a grain of salt. But some have deduced that the theoretical "Aaron haCohen" lived about 3,000-3,500 years ago; so if that is the Aaron of the Bible, it would match up perfectly with Biblical chronology. Interestingly, as the article mentions, a very large percentage of Asians are members of the same larger haplogroup from which the Aaronic subgroup descended. By extension, it would appear that many first nations may also be part of the larger group of which the Aaronic group is a subclass. I wonder whether the larger group could be related to Melchizedek, whom some identify as Shem. The Cohen Modal Haplogroup appears most concentrated in the area of southern Arabia and the Western part of the Caspian Sea, which would be where Azerbaijan and Chechnya are. It is somewhat less concentrated in the horn of Africa, Sudan, and the rest of Western Asia, but still quite high. Much of that the area of present-day Yemen used to be part of the Aksumite kingdom. Interestingly, one of the common surnames of the Cohanim is "Kagan". Might that have something to do with the Turkic Kaganates, for example, some of which extended across the entire latitude of Asia? Bear in mind that many linguists believe Korean and Turkic languages are strongly related languages. It would appear that they both have common ancestral origins in the ancient land of Ur where Abraham originated. The strong genetic relation between the Arsi Oromo and many of the Asians in East Asia seems to be another link between the Omotic people, of which the Arsi are members, and the Mandarin Chinese, both of whom have tonal languages. Here are some key excerpts of the article: "If you assume that Aaron HaCohen started the Cohen line (which is a core assumption in Orthodox Judaism), then ALL of his male descendants will be in the same Haplogroup. The original ancestor of Cohanim is very likely from the J1 lineage. Specifically, J1-P58 lineage and in particular ZS227 seems to be the Cohen paternal line. The two most common Jewish subgroup of J1-P58 are Z18297 and ZS227. ZS227 includes the Cohanim haplotype [1]. Here is J1 from Wikipedia: Men from this lineage share a common paternal ancestor, which is demonstrated and defined by the presence of the SNP mutation referred to as M267, which was announced in (Cinnioğlu 2004). This haplogroup is found today in significant frequencies in many areas in or near the Middle East, and parts of the Caucasus, Sudan and Ethiopia. It is also found in high frequencies in parts of North Africa, Southern Europe, and amongst Jewish groups, especially those with Cohen surnames. It can also be found much less commonly, but still occasionally in significant amounts, throughout Europe and as far east as Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. [2] J1-P58, the Central Semitic branch of J1, appears to have expanded from Israel/Palestine/Jordan across the Arabian peninsula during the Bronze Age, from approximately 3,500 to 2,500 BCE (5500-4500 years ago) [3, 1]. . . . Cohen Modal Haplotype (CMH) The original scientific research was based on the hypothesis that a majority of present-day Jewish Kohanim share a pattern of values for 6 unique markers (YSTR), which researchers named the Cohen Modal Haplotype (CMH) [4]. Of those who did belong to Haplogroup J, the Kohanim were more than twice as likely to have a pattern close to the CMH-6, suggesting a much more recent common ancestry for most of them compared to an average non-Cohen Jew of Haplogroup J [4]. This means that you need to belong in J to have the CMH [4]. Additional research using 12 unique markers, which is more accurate, indicated that about half of contemporary Jewish Kohanim shared Y-chromosomal J1 M267, specifically haplogroup J-P58 (also called J1c3). Other Kohanim groups share a different ancestry, including haplogroup J2a (J-M410). Both of these groups are in the “J” line [4]. Genetics research published in 2013 and 2016 for haplogroup J1 places the Y-chromosomal Aaron within subgroup Z18271, with an age estimate 2,638 - 3,280 years ago [4]. In a study published in 2009, based on genotypes at 12 markers (Y-STRs), they identified an extended CMH on the J-P58* background that predominates in both Ashkenazi and non-Ashkenazi Cohanim and is remarkably absent in non-Jews [5]. The estimated divergence time of this lineage based on 17 STRs is 3,190 +/- 1,090 years. These results support the hypothesis of a common origin of the CMH in the Near East well before the dispersion of the Jewish people into separate communities, and indicate that the majority of contemporary Jewish priests descend from a limited number of paternal lineages [5]. . . . what the study found was that people who are Cohanim were way more likely to be from the J group, particularly J-P58. So it’s likely that Cohanim descended from that individual with those markers. This is used as evidence that Cohanim came from one 1 male. So if there is an Aaron Hacohen, J-P58 is probably his lineage (but to be 3000-3500 year ago, it would need to be a subgroup of J1-P58 such as ZS227), and anyone who isn’t in that group got mixed up with being a Cohen somewhere in the last 3000 years."
