Intro:

Athletes from Bahrain prepared on Friday (26th June) for the IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China from their training base in Ifrane, Morocco.

Script:

SOUNDBITE (English) Saad Chaddad, Bahrain head coach

"We come for the high altitude because this place is very very important for our long distance athletes and we have experience here for training, we have many places for training, and Ifrane has many Olympic champions training here and he make a medal at the World, and the best place to train for Arab athletes is training in Ifrane."

Bahrain runners

SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Ismail , Marathon runner

"My colleagues training, Moroccans, very good training and we hope to train together in a group until the World Championships."