Running out of Oxygen, burning out When contenders feel like Dropping dead, In an unexampled manner Summoning a vestige Of energy Bringing into play A new strategy, Miruts Yifter Ethiopia's Olympic legend Used to surge ahead Demonstrating a race Is a sport of foot,lung And head. That is why A commentator Christened him “Mirutse Yifter The gear changer!” “I dare say Catching up with him In a dead heat There is no way Once, he broke away!”
Two golds in 5 thousand And 10 thousand meter race In Moscow Olympic With a gear-changing tactic What a trick, what a trick! What a story to children And grandchildren to tell Recalling minutest Detail well!”
In our childhood, With people In the neighborhood Our eyes To TV screens glued We used to relish Miruts' sprinted finish Forcing rivals Winning dreams To relinquish!
After the medal Putting on ceremony, Heading to Our football pitch We used to run round, Round,round and round Till exhausted ourselves We found!
It is adopting Mirutse's footprint Haile,Derartu,Kenenisa, Tirunesh,Selershi and Meseret sprint! This formula grand Gradually has found Its way to Kenya And England May be tomorrow To Sire lanka or America!