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Haile Gebrselassie (left) and Paul Tergat in the 2000 Olympic 10,000-meter final.
Even long-distance races can have exciting finishes. In the 2000 Olympics, Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie passed Kenya's Paul Tergat down the home stretch to win the 10,000-meter race by nine-hundredths of a second.