ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (APA) – Ethiopia on Wednesday named a hospital and a street after Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenenisa Bekele respectively who brought two gold medals each in the 5,000m and 10,000m games in the Beijing Olympics.
Kenenisa Street is located around the same street named after Haile Gebresilassie, another hero in athletics for over 15 years.
The Hospital named after Dibaba is located around the outskirt of Addis Ababa in Kality.
The Tirunesh-Beijing Hospital is under construction under a Chinese and Ethiopian government joint investment.
The Addis Ababa city administration also awarded various prizes to the athletes who won medals for Ethiopia. Dibaba and Bekele received $10,000 each.