No one in 40 years has attempted to run the 5,000, 10,000 and marathon distances at the Olympics…until the Netherland’s Sifan Hassan. Incredibly, Hassan won bronze in the 5,000- and 10,000-meter races and even managed to break an Olympic record for the marathon, finishing at 2:22:55, after she’d already run 50 laps around the Stade de France track in the previous two races. “From the beginning to the end, it was so hard. Every step of the way. I was thinking, ‘Why did I do that? What is wrong with me?’ If I hadn’t done it, I would feel so comfortable here,” said Hassan after the race. This wasn’t Hassan’s first treble—in Tokyo, she won bronze in the 1,500, 5,000 and 10,000.
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