Marathon wrecker to hear his fate
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An ex-priest is to learn his fate after pushing the front-runner off the road during the men's marathon in Athens.
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Britain's Paula Radcliffe, trying to bounce back after her Athens Olympic dreams ended in tears, will return to competition here Sunday at the New York Marathon.
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CHARLOTTE, NC -- After a tragic plane crash Sunday that resulted in 10 deaths, a tough road lies ahead for the Hendrick family and the Hendrick Motorsports team.
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PAULA RADCLIFFE has decided she WILL run in tonight&#39;s 10,000m race at the Athens Olympics. Today&#39;s dramatic decision comes just days after Britain&#39;s star long-distance runner was left weeping at the roadside after pulling up in the Olympic marathon.
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The last event on the final day of Olympic competition ended in more embarrassment for the Greek organisers yesterday when the leader of the men&#39;s marathon was bundled off the course by a protester.
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ATHENS -- In a bizarre and stunning conclusion to the Olympic Games, the leader of the men's marathon was grabbed by a former Irish priest and pushed into the crowd about three miles from the finish. After a police officer helped free the runner, Vanderlei de Lima, the shocked Brazilian hustled back into the race after losing several seconds off ...
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Anyone who has ever run a marathon will be able to tell you that it can take days, sometimes even weeks, to recover from the physical effort of running 26.
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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Choking pollution and sapping heat will be the major concerns for the world's elite marathon runners at this year's Beijing Olympics.
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She has the chance to banish the ghosts of last weekend&#39;s marathon failure and finally claim the Olympic medal she has sought for so long.
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Thirty-six kilometres into the men&#39;s Olympic marathon on Sunday, Vanderlei Lima&#39;s chances of winning were taken from him after he was tackled in bizarre manner by the Irish serial pest Cornelius Horan.
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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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Ronaldo da Costa, who was celebrated nine years ago for one of the most surprising performances in marathon history, is hopeful that his distance running career is not entirely over.
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In a bizarre and stunning conclusion to the Olympic Games, the leader of the men&#39;s marathon was grabbed by a former Irish priest and pushed into the crowd about three miles from the finish.
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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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Organizers of the world marathon majors are considering launching a season-ending race that would bring together all the top marathoners for an annual big-money showdown.
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The Irishman who was arrested after obstructing Brazilian athlete Vanderlei de Lima in the men&#39;s Olympic marathon will be brought to the general district attorney&#39;s office in Athens today.
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ATHENS -- The Games ended here last night with the last runner of the marathon making his way into Panathinaikos Stadium and the Olympic flame being doused a few hours later.