Olympics: El Guerrouj Longing to Set Record Straight
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Hicham El Guerrouj, hailed by his peers  as the greatest 1,500 meter runner of all time, seeks to seal  his place in sporting history on Tuesday by winning the Olympic  gold that has always eluded him.
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ATHENS -- In a historic 5,000-meter race, Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco, who won gold at 1,500 meters last week, outkicked Ken enisa Bekele of Ethiopia in the final straightaway to record the first such double victory since the great Paavo Nurmi of Finland, El Guerrouj's hero, accomplished the feat 80 years ago at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
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MOROCCO&#39;s Hicham El Guerrouj completes an historic 1500-5000m double, emulating the achievement of Paavo Nurmi in 1924. BRITAIN&#39;s Kelly Holmes becomes only the third woman in Olympic history to complete the 800m-1500m double.
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Ethiopian distance great Haile  Gebrselassie blames the atrocious state of his home track in  Addis Ababa for the injury that spoiled his farewell at the  Olympics.
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In 1997, in Athens, he won his first gold medal at the World Championships. In 1999, in the 100 meters, the sprinter broke the world record here.
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Hicham el-Guerrouj of Morocco and Kelly Holmes of Britain completed Olympic doubles on Saturday, the last day of track and field competition.
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A friend of Hicham El Guerrouj rang the great one a few days ago from Toulouse and made a prescient comment to him. &quot;In 1997 Athens discovered the prince, in 2004 Athens greeted the King,&quot; he said.
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Britain&#39;s Kelly Holmes and Morocco&#39;s Hicham El Guerrouj earned their places among Olympic athletic legends here on Saturday as they won their second golds of the Games.
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IT IS impossible to achieve greatness in sport without being measured against history. On Saturday, the last night of athletics in the 2004 Olympics, a man and a woman, a king and a queen of the track, ran into history.
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Morocco&#39;s Hicham El Guerrouj and Britain&#39;s Kelly Holmes both completed gold double at the penultimate day&#39;s competition of the 28th Olympic Games Saturday.
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SarÃ  certamente ricordato come uno dei protagonisti assoluti di Atene 2004. Hicham El Guerrouj ha conquistato l`oro sia nei 1500 m che nei 5000, che non Ã¨ certo la sua specialitÃ . Al termine della gara
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Score tied. One round to go. A shot at an Olympic boxing gold medal at stake. Apparently only US coach Basheer Abdullah didn&#39;t know his 178-pound fighter, Andre Ward, was even with
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Kenyan-born Saif Saaeed Shaheen - now representing Qatar - smashed the world 3,000 metres steeplechase record in Friday night&#39;s IAAF Golden League meeting in Brussels.
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Tirunesh Dibaba plans to attempt outdoor world records at 5,000 and 10,000 meters this year. She will run at the Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden on Friday.
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Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj and  Britain's Kelly Holmes, living proof that self-belief can work  wonders, lit up the Olympic stadium to claim historic doubles  on a night of pure athletics gold.
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Lioubov Galkina sets an Olympic record as she wins the women's 50m rifle three positions.
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OSTRAVA, Czech Republic  - Twice Olympic 10,000 meters champion Haile Gebrselassie broke the world one-hour and 20 kilometers marks at the "Golden Spike" grand prix athletics meeting on Wednesday.