Time running out for sprinters
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TWO Greek sprinters facing expulsion from the Olympics over missed drug tests left hospital yesterday after four days of treatment for injuries suffered in an unexplained motorbike crash.
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NEW YORK  - Midway through the race  between Olympics past and present, this year's edition is  outrunning its predecessor from four years ago.
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ATHENS -- We'll have to wait until the lab reports come back. This is the modern era of track and field after all, when it can take four years for Olympic results to become final (right, Jerome Young?). But when the last baton crossed the line here last night, the US team had turned in a heck of a meet, ...
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Time slips away in a hurry as Tim Thomas runs around looking to make something happen in short order. The slumping forward&#39;s on a short leash at the moment and wound up watching most of last
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MARK COLVIN: The fastest man and woman in Greek athletics are tonight out of the Olympics. Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou have both withdrawn from the Games after an International Olympic Committee disciplinary hearing on their failure to turn up for ...
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If Greece, with 10m people, can pull off the Games at the 11th hour, why not? THE final weekend of the Olympics is at hand, and the reckoning is nigh.
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No one in the Olympic Stadium could possibly know it at the time, but the men&#39;s long jump final last night was over almost as soon as it began.
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ATHENS -- It was a long goodbye almost a week in the making, but Greece&#39;s troubled star sprinters have finally left the Olympic building.
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OLYMPIA, Greece  The competition was history. The time had come for everyone to leave, to follow the sun toward that narrow path lined with olive trees out of the stadium, a trek that would take athletes and spectators alike not to a ...
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The mens&#39; 100-meter final isn&#39;t until tonight, but it didn&#39;t look as if anybody told the guys who were running in last night&#39;s preliminaries.
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NEW YORK -- This was all about Athens, about redemption for one and validation for the other. Britain's Paula Radcliffe, the fastest female marathoner in history, failed to finish either of her Olympic races last summer. South Africa's Hendrik Ramaala was a five-ringed dropout, too, reinforcing his reputation as a man who could go only half the distance.
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GREAT Britain&#39;s Paula Radcliffe&#39;s dropped out of the Olympic Games women&#39;s 10,000m with eight laps still to go this morning having made a late decision to compete.
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The worldâs second-most important track and field event could not fill a stadium with only 36,000 available seats in an affluent area of nearly 9 million people that has excellent public transportation.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Greece&#39;s top two sprinters pulled out of the Olympics today after inflicting six days of embarrassment on their country over a hide-and-seek contest with anti-doping enforcers.
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Jason Estrada had the perfect opponent last night. An inexperienced one. The Pan Am Games gold medalist had not fought in two months because of a thumb injury and a case of plantar fasciitis that curtailed both his training and his aerobic workouts, and that layoff had his coaches concerned. Unable to run until recently, the Providence, R.I., ...
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Greek sprint duo Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou will have to wait until after the Olympic Games to find out their fate following their missed drugs tests, according to athletics chief Arne Ljungqvist.
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British marathon flop Paula Radcliffe is leaving it until the last before deciding whether or not to run in the Olympic 10,000 metres.