Letsrun.com is reporting that Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba (among others) have been banned by the Ethiopian Athletics Federation for failure to follow orders.
This morning LetsRun.com received a text from Ethiopian journalist Teferi Debebe, whom LetsRun.com met at the 2009 world cross country championships in Amman, Jordan before Debebe immigrated to the US (when he was in Ethiopia, Debebe regularly appeared on both radio and even hosted a television show devoted to athletics), stating he had heard on a radio station that 36 top athletes including such luminaries as 5000 and 10000 double Olympic champions Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba, 2009 world 10,000 silver medallist Meselech Melkamu, and Beijing Olympic marathon bronze medallist Tsegaye Kebede had been banned.
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What impact will this have on the summer Olympics? We'll have to wait and see.