Ethiopia&#39;s Defar takes 5,000 gold
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Meseret Defar of Ethiopia took the women&#39;s Olympic 5,000 metres gold on Monday with a patient but perfectly judged display of distance running.
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Kenenisa Bekele used a breathtaking final 400 meters late Friday to claim the Olympic 10,000-meter throne previously occupied by his Ethiopian countryman, Haile Gebrselassie.
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ATHENS (CP) - Hicham El Guerrouj passed Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia with about 50 metres remaining in the 5,000-metre race Saturday, making the Morocco runner the first man in eight decades to sweep the middle-distance races at the Summer Olympics.
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Morocco&#39;s Hicham El Guerrouj, who won the 1500m earlier this week, completed a rare Olympic distance double Saturday night by outkicking Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia
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A blast ripped through a crowd in  Ethiopia&#39;s volatile Somali region on Monday, killing at least  five people and setting off a stampede that saw up to six more  die, according to witnesses and aid-workers.
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It wasn't even close. In the final women's event of the 2008 Reebok Boston Indoor Games, Ethiopian Meseret Defar won the 2-mile in stunning fashion.
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Sheik Ahmed bin Hashr Al-Maktoum earned the first-ever Olympic medal for the United Arab Emirates when he took home the gold medal in men&#39;s double trap shooting on Tuesday in Athens.
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Michael Phelps clinched his fifth gold  medal and became the first man since Mark Spitz to hold four  individual Olympic swimming titles when he won the 100 meter  butterfly final Friday.
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ATHENS - Hicham El Guerrouj completed the first Olympic 1500-5000 double since Finn Paavo Nurmi 80 years ago on the penultimate day of the Athens Games on Saturday.
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An Indian army major shot his way to his country&#39;s first ever individual Olympic silver medal on Tuesday, while in the same event an member of Dubai&#39;s ruling family became the first ever medallist from the United Arab Emirates.
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ATHENS Gal Fridman became the first Israeli to win an Olympic gold medal on Wednesday after edging Greece&#39;s Nikolaos Kaklamanakis for the men&#39;s windsurfing title.
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ATHENS : Sheikh Ahmed Al-Maktoum&#39;s six-year quest for Olympic glory ended with a historic first ever gold for the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday after he clinched the men&#39;s double trap shooting event.
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OSAKA, Japan  - Bernard Lagat became the first man to win the 1,500 and 5,000 meters titles at the same world championships with a stunning victory in the longer distance on Sunday.
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Milen Dobrev of Bulgaria breezily claimed the gold medal in weightlifting men&#39;s 94kg class as Greece&#39;s Akakios Kakiasvili failed to become the first lifter to win four consecutive Olympic gold here on Monday.
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Michael Phelps clinched his fifth gold medal and became the first man since Mark Spitz to hold four individual Olympic swimming titles when he won the 100 meter butterfly final Friday.
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JERUSALEM, Israel -- A wave of excitement swept through Israel on Wednesday as windsurfer Gal Fridman won the Jewish State&#39;s first ever Olympic gold medal in the men&#39;s Mistral event in Athens.
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Italy&#39;s Ivano Brugnetti has won the Olympic gold medal in the men&#39;s 20-kilometer race walk. In the first gold medal to be decided in the seventh day of the Athens games, Brugnetti covered the distance in a winning time of 1:19:40 hours.