Runners train at the Eindhoven Athletics club, aiming to emulate double Olympic chamption Sifan Hassan. It was at this club that Hassan, a young asylum seeker from Ethiopia began her journey to Olympic history at the delayed Tokyo Games in 2021, where she became the first athlete to win medials in the 1,500, 5,000 and 10,000 metre races. She is now a top contender in Paris. "We immediately saw that she was a talented athlete, even a blind horse could see that," says Ad Peeters, the club's training president. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES