El Guerrouj: destiny fulfilled
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The great Moroccan reveals hidden depths to fit the final piece into a reign that was lacking just one achievement, reports Len Johnson.
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Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj and Briton  Kelly Holmes completed historic doubles on the Olympic  athletics track on Saturday as the penultimate day of the  Athens Games brought two of its greatest moments.
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ATHENS Hicham El Guerrouj became the first man in 80 years to win the 1,500 and the 5,000 races at the same Olympics, joining Finnish great Paavo Nurmi in the history books Saturday.
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âFrank, objective and realisticâ was the phrase applied by sources at the presidential palace to the talks held between President Emile Lahoud and the Maronite patriarch, Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir, at the patriarchal residence in Bkerki.
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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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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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Moroccan duo Hicham El Guerrouj and Adil  Kaouch led the way into the Olympic men's 1,500 meters final  when they each won one of Saturday's semi-finals.
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SALFIT, West Bank: Arab rivalry reached a crescendo yesterday when Palestinians&#39; great musical hope bowed out to his Libyan competition in an internationally televised talent quest.
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A comic book hero mounts a comeback in the footsteps of many others.
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French President Jacques Chirac, confirming Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, has hailed the Palestinian leader as a man of courage and conviction who embodied the Palestinian struggle for a state.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s death opens a window of opportunity. The Palestinian leader who loomed so large for so many years - and who had recently been rejected as a partner by Israel
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In his apartment high in the Atlas Mountains, Hicham El Guerrouj has a fading film reel of Paavo Nurmi racing to victory in the 1500m and 5,000m in the Paris Olympics of 1924.
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Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj and Briton  Kelly Holmes completed historic doubles on the Olympic  athletics track Saturday as the penultimate day of the Athens  Games brought two of its greatest moments.
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Comment is free: Soumaya Ghannoushi: The occupation has helped to pave the way for this presence in Palestine.
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There is a feeling of finality about âShrek the Third,â a sense that the tale has at last reached a state of completion.
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ATHENSâHicham El Guerrouj became the first man in 80 years to sweep the 1,500 and 5,000 metres at an Olympics, holding up two fingers in triumph after winning the 5,000 yesterday in an all-out sprint down the final straightaway.
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Craig Mottram knows what he&#39;s got to do to mix it with the likes of Olympic gold medallists Hicham El Guerrouj and Kenenisa Bekele.