TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – Visa challenges have left 14 Ethiopian runners unable to participate in the upcoming World Athletics Cross Country Championships, according to the event’s organizer, World Athletics.
As a result, the Ethiopian teams are unable to compete for the team titles in the men’s and women’s U20 races in Tallahassee, as a minimum of four athletes is required to score. The entry list for the event only shows one Ethiopian entered in the men’s U20 race and three in the women’s U20 race.
The exclusion of the teams means “Ethiopia will be unable to extend its streak of winning a U20 men’s team medal at every edition since 1982,” per World Athletics. In the women’s U20 race, this will also end “Ethiopia’s run of making the team podium at every edition since 1991.”…