Remember Miruts Yifter?

[Bierzo Baggie]

Excellent. I was a fan of his and of Henry Rono.

At those Moscow Olympics (where he also won the 5000m) nobody seemed to know how old he was. Estimates ranged from early 30s to 40-something. When the journalists asked him his Cantona-esque reply was "Men may steal my chickens; men may steal my sheep. But no man can steal my age"