5 Olympians who defied all odds to glory

#3 Haile Gebrselassie

Haile Gebrselassie has single handedly put Ethiopia on the world map

Born in Ethiopia in a family where he was one of the ten children in the family, Haile Gebrselassie used to run 10 kilometres to his school in the morning and ran back the same distance in the evening. Little did he know that all the running was going to lead him to Olympic glory one day.

And not once, but twice did he finish with the brightest medal in the Olympics, once in 1996 Atlanta and then again in 2000 Sydney.