Sifan Hassan Wins The Olympic Games In Paris 2024 Poem by Sylvia Frances Chan

SUNDAY OLYMPIC GAMES PARIS 2024

Sifan Hassan, the Queen of Athletics in the world,
won the Olympic Marathon in Paris this morning,

not just Gold, but more than that,
as she says this morning on NOS TV

at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020 on the 1,500 m Bronze
on the 5,000 m Gold and
on the 10,000 m Gold

Now this morning Gold for the Marathon
at the Olympic Games in Paris
on the 5,000 m Bronze
on the 10,000 m Bronze

She participated for the first time for her,
for the very first time in the Marathon in London
and WON!
Marathon in Chicago she also WON!

and now, in the Olympic Marathon in Paris,
she has also WON!

This is the most difficult Marathon of all Marathons;
uphill, downhill, flat ground for a while
and then up and down again and so to the final,

I have followed her all the time this morning:
she runs 40,000 m constantly as number 5 in the headgroup
then the few hundred last meters as number 3
then the very last meters she sprints past the first two

in the lead at the very last meters,
and so through the FINISH
WOW! Again GOLD for The Netherlands

and she is the Marathon winner in OLYMPIC PARIS 2024
GOLD, more than Gold, as Sifan Hassan herself said
in the interview this morning

Tonight she will be honoured In the Olympics Paris 2024
Sifan Hassan, the best Marathon runner of all time
She equals Emile Zatopek
CONGRATULATIONS, SIFAN HASSAN!
As your mother always said (I repeat your words from this morning)
You reap what you sow
and Sifan has reaped more than Gold!