Gebrselassie eyes record in Berlin

Ethiopian distance champion Haile Gebrselassie will again attempt to break the world marathon record in Berlin next month after his narrow miss last year. "My aim is to break the record," the twice Olympic champion over 10,000 metres said. "Berlin will...

Ethiopian distance champion Haile Gebrselassie will again attempt to break the world marathon record in Berlin next month after his narrow miss last year.

"My aim is to break the record," the twice Olympic champion over 10,000 metres said. "Berlin will be the most important race of 2007 for me... sometimes there is one city where you feel something, a kind of confidence."

In 2006, Gebrselassie won the Berlin race in a personal best time of two hours, five minutes, 56 seconds - which was 61 seconds slower than his great rival Paul Tergat's world record set over the same course in 2003.

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