Marathoner Finishes Third After Attack
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ATHENS, Greece - A defrocked Irish priest bolted from the crowd and grabbed the marathon leader about three miles from the finish Sunday. The Brazilian runner Vanderlei de Lima wound up with the bronze - and a special award for sportsmanship - and the former priest was arrested...
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ATHENS Robert Korzeniowski&#39;s long road came to an end on Friday with an unprecedented third consecutive Olympic 50-kilometer race walk title.
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Competition at the Athens Olympics is over with Italy&#39;s Stefano Baldini winning a bizarre men&#39;s marathon. Brazil&#39;s Vanderlei Lima was leading the race six kilometers from the finish when an unidentified man
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Athens - A defrocked Irish priest who once disrupted the British Grand Prix did it again Sunday, bolting from the crowd and grabbing the leader of the Olympic marathon about five kilometres from the finish.
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A Kenyan marathon runner was fatally shot with an arrow, the second international athlete to die as Kenya struggles with an explosion of postelection chaos, a sports official and fellow athlete said Tuesday.
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Marc Jenkins finished last of 45 in yesterday&#39;s triathlon but raised some of the biggest cheers of the day for completing the swim-ride-run marathon at all.
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CHICAGO - Evans Rutto of Kenya won his second straight Chicago Marathon on Sunday, finishing in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 16 seconds, and making him 3-for-3 at the 26.2-mile distance.    Daniel Njenga of Kenya was second in 2:07:44 and Toshinari Takaoka of Japan was third in 2:07:50...
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Trailing in 14th position before the final discipline - a three kilometre run - Harland, world No.1, made up 49 seconds on her nearest rival to snatch the bronze medal in dramatic circumstances.
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Italy's Stefano Baldini wins the marathon in 2 hours, 10 minutes, 54 seconds. Mebrahtom Keflezighi of the United States takes silver.
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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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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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American Deena Kastor crosed the finish line crying as she captured the bronze medal in the marathon Sunday. She finished the course in 2 hours, 27 minutes, 19 seconds.
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A CRAZED former priest ruined the men&#39;s marathon yesterday when he burst out of the crowd and grabbed the race leader. Cornelius Horan&#39;s stunt cost Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima his chance of the gold medal.
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He&#39;ll scan through the results of the New York City Marathon and grimace. He&#39;ll search desperately for the first American finisher -- geez, where is the first American finisher?
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The American runner today became the third man in history to win the world championship sprint double.
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A convoy carrying Afghan President Hamid Karzai's vice presidential running-mate came under attack Wednesday in northeastern Afghanistan, the presidential palace and other officials said, the third attack on Karzai's supporters ahead of landmark weekend elections.
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ATHENS -- For Canadian long-distance runner Nicole Stevenson, watching the historic Olympic marathon from her couch in Toronto yesterday was more painful than if she had run it herself.