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NO FEAR OF ETHIOPIANS: X-Country champ Tirop revels in her triumph over adversaries as Kamworor reveals golden tactics

World Cross Country Championship 2015
Kenyan Athletes on a truck wave to the public on arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport from World Cross Country Championship 2015 held in Guiyang the Capital city of Guizhou Province in China. They arrived on Monday, March 30th. PHOTO/ JONAH ONYANGO

Record-equalling Agnes Jebet Tirop has revealed she banished fears of Ethiopian onslaught- a successful psychological warfare that saw her win the senior women's World Cross Country gold in Guiyang, China.

At 19 years of age, Tirop became only the second youth after then 18-year-old Zola Budd in 1985, to win a senior women's World Cross Country gold.

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