Brazilian Attacked During Men&#39;s Marathon
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ATHENS, Greece Aug. 29, 2004 - The defrocked Irish priest who bolted from the crowd and tackled the marathon leader about three miles from the finish Sunday has been arrested before for disrupting sporting events.
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The former champion marathoner Alberto Salazar was hospitalized in serious condition yesterday after collapsing the day before at the Nike campus in Beaverton, Ore.Doctors were conducting additional tests to learn the cause of Salazarâs âheart event,â said Lisa Helderop, a spokeswoman at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center. Salazar, 48, collapsed Saturday while coaching distance runners at the campus outside Portland, the Nike spokesman Bob Applegate said.He was awake and alert when he arrived at the hospital, and a stent was inserted to open an artery. Salazar won the New York City Marathon three straight years (1980-82) and the Boston Marathon in 1982. He has set six United States records and one world record. He is a longtime Nike employee and consultant who trains elite distance runners and has a building named for him on campus.
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The marathon produced a range of different emotions as the athletes battled with each other and the heat of Athens. Mizuki Noguchi of Japan took the Gold in 2 hours, 26 minutes, 20 seconds, followed by Ndereba of Kenya 49 seconds behind.
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Britain&#39;s Jon Brown nearly found himself benefiting from the attack on Brazil&#39;s Vanderlei de Lima but had to instead settle for finishing fourth for the second consecutive Olympic games last night.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - A sports editor who led the media probe into the Greek sprinter scandal at the Athens Olympics has been hospitalized after being brutally attacked.
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Brazilian marathon runner Vanderlei de Lima asked sport&#39;s highest review panel to award him an Olympic gold medal after he was attacked by a spectator while leading the race at the Athens Games.
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The man who disrupted the men's marathon at the Athens Olympics was defrocked as a Roman Catholic priest Thursday.
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By Joseph Guyler Delva GONAIVES, Haiti  - A Brazilian soldier with theU.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti was shot and wounded Saturdaywhen peacekeepers and local police faced gunfire in a crackdownon armed gangs in the Haitian capital.
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Sunday marks the final day of competition at the Olympics and a field of 102 runners will be at the starting line for the men&#39;s marathon.
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ATHENS, Aug. 22 Â The marathon was inspired by suffering, and on the day an event that is as much a test of character as a test of endurance returned to its Olympic roots, the suffering returned, too.
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ATHENS, Greece -- I could see Vanderlei de Lima of Brazil running almost straight toward me. The 5-5, 119-pound marathon competitor had started with the rest of the men in the hill town of Marathon, the place where it all began 2,494 years ago.
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Stefano Baldini of Italy overtook Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima two kilometers from the finish to win the Olympic men&#39;s marathon on August 29.. The former European champion clocked two hours, 10 minutes and
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- A wave of assaults on tourists in this seaside resort city has authorities scrambling to contain the violence as they prepare for the annual high travel summer season.
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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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Kenya's world marathon champion Luke Kibet said on Saturday he was still "traumatized and horrified" after completing his first race since he narrowly escaped death in a mob attack last month.
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ATHENS, Greece - As the crackpot in a green beret and red kilt ambushed Vanderlei Lima of Brazil three miles from the finish line of the Olympic men&#39;s marathon Sunday night, Lima wondered if he was about to be murdered.
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Yoko Shibui continued Japan&#39;s supremacy in the Berlin women&#39;s marathon and Felix Limo extended Kenya&#39;s dominance of the men&#39;s race Sunday.