Marathon marred by mugging
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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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In an Olympic marathon marred by a bizarre intrusion, Italy&#39;s Stefano Baldini surged ahead with more than three kilometres to win the gold yesterday.
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Cancer and a car accident nearly sidelined Ian Brooks, the public-address announcer at the New York City Marathon.
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KELLY HOLMES joined the immortals of British athletics when she ran a textbook race to land Olympic glory in an 800 metres of unbearable tension.
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Italy&#39;s Stefano Baldini won the men&#39;s marathon after a spectator attacked the leader, and a record third gold medalist was stripped of the award because of drugs as the Athens Olympics came to a close.
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ATHENS, Aug. 22 Â The marathon was inspired by suffering, and on the day an event that is as much a test of character as a test of endurance returned to its Olympic roots, the suffering returned, too.
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The beating of a leader of a budding movement to uphold motoristsâ rights in the face of police corruption has prompted an outcry.
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Â· Victim 'threatened public' with Uzi-style weaponÂ· Locals link death to 'troubled' stranger in pub
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I was just going to say how happy I was that I was wrong with my dire warnings that there was going to be some sort of incident at the Athens Games ... when something happened toward the end of the men&#39;s marathon on Sunday.
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new attacks by youth gangs after gunmen murdered 28 people on a public bus earlier this week. searched for gang members involved in the bus attack.
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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 &#151; and a special award for sportsmanship &#151; and the former priest was arrested.
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As she climbed the final obstacle to her first-ever marathon victory, Constantina Tomescu-Dita couldn&#39;t help looking back - back to her past, back to the ghosts that have plagued her time and time again.
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It ain&#39;t over until the crazy drunk former priest attacks the frightened Brazilian marathon runner. Although the 35-year-old Athens marathon record was broken tonight by Italy&#39;s
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It seemed more like the Iditarod dog sled race than a marathon.
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ATHENS The marathon was inspired by suffering, and on the day an event that is as much a test of character as a test of endurance returned to its Olympic roots and the evocative marble horseshoe that is Panathanaiko stadium, the suffering returned, too.
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Having to run the most important race of your career in the heat and humidity of Beijing in August is the idea of hell for many marathon runners.
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On August 30, in an unprecedented freak incident during the menâs Olympic marathon in Athens, the frontrunner Vanderlei De Lima of Brazil was tackled by a man who suddenly launched into him and knocked him into the crowd.