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Uploaded by on Jun 4, 2008

Tribute to Abebe Bikila

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  • Great video, l love the music (although I don't understand the language). Congratulations to Ethiopia on the gold medals for Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba in Beijing. It was wonderful to see them. I visited Ethiopia six onths and fell in love with the country.m

  • The name of the Song is Anbessa which in ahmaric the ethiopian language means"The Lion".the song is dedicated to Abebe bikila and Kenenisa who's nickname is the Lion.

  • Thx to this remarkable athlete and to the vision of the film maker Kon Ichikawa, this moment of the Tokyo Olympic is in my opinion one of the greatest pictures of mankind.

  • TOKYO 1964,The most spiritual video about running,the entire filming of the olympics of TOKYO is greatly recorded.

  • this music is rele nice 2! What is it? great video!

  • Its Teddy Afro a famous Ethiopian singer and the name of the song is Anbesa which means Lion.The song is dedicated to Abebe Bikila and Kenenisa Bekele.

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  • Think about that this people as Abebe went ONLY for the TRUE Olympic Spirit... TRUE HEROES! My respects for all them!

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  • I think a lot of people under the age of around 50 don't know that before about 1972, there was very little Olympics on TV. Filmmakers would attend the Olympics and shoot films on the games, or athletes, and a few months later these films would play in theaters. Thus all the terrific archival footage out there like this.

  • i thought he did it bare foot

  • @baawuffwuff i love it!

  • @pabanil He died from injuries in an auto accident.

  • yes he got inspired his dad was a farmer

  • i'd love to know what he's thinking about while he's running.

  • legend

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