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thanks, as always, for your work. regarding "Tigist" vs "Tigst" Assefa, it would be "ትግስት" in the Fidel (the Ethiopian syllabary) if I'm correct. the respective characters reflect the sounds "ti," "gi,"si," "ti." so, it just depends on one's preference in the process of transliteration. whatever the spelling choice, she is one fast woman.

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That makes sense, given that we used different alphabets, but it's just interesting to me that we're still sorting this out and coming to a consensus a year after she ran 2:15:37. She's still that new on the scene, because she hasn't raced much at all.

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