Guerrouj makes history in middle-distance running in second-last ...
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ATHENS (CP) - Hicham El Guerrouj passed Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia with about 50 metres remaining in the 5,000-metre race Saturday, making the Morocco runner the first man in eight decades to sweep the middle-distance races at the Summer Olympics.
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Double Olympic champion Hicham El  Guerrouj, the greatest middle distance runner of his  generation, plans to retire in 2006 after trying to break the  5,000 meters world record next year.
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Kenya&#39;s Paul Kirui won the world half-marathon title Sunday, capping a year in which he also captured 13.1-mile races in Rome and Berlin.
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Kenenisa Bekele eclipses Haile Gebrselassie's two-mile world record at the Norwich Union Grand Prix in Birmingham.
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The racetrack and casino operator reports another record result.
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Justin Gatlin ran the race of his life, barely holding off the field Sunday night to win the 100 meters in 9.85 seconds. Francis Obikwelu of Portugal got the silver
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In a historic 5,000-meter race, Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco, who won gold at 1,500 meters last week, outkicked Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia in
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Gebrselassie has already won everything under the sun. Twice an Olympic champion, in Atlanta and Sydney, the 10,000m legend has dominated the event for nearly ten years. By the time of Atlanta 1996, Gebrselassie was already the reigning world record ...
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ATHENS - Hicham El Guerrouj completed the first Olympic 1500-5000 double since Finn Paavo Nurmi 80 years ago on the penultimate day of the Athens Games on Saturday.
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ATHENS -- Robina Muqimyar wore a T-shirt and long green track pants for the biggest race of her life.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Meseret Defar set a world record in the women's 2-mile at the Van Damme Memorial meet Friday, smashing her own mark by almost 12 seconds.
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Names Haile Gebrselassie enjoyed an easy victory in the Almeria Half Marathon yesterday in Madrid, a race the Ethiopian star said he would use to see if he's ready for the London Marathon in April. He covered the 13.1 miles in 1 hour 1 minute 46 seconds -- more than a minute faster than runner-up Alex Kirui of Kenya. Gebrselassie ...
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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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HICHAM El Guerrouj wrote his name large in the annals of Olympic history last night when he bestrode athleticsâ middle and long-distance disciplines by completing a 1500m and 5,000m double gold.
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Fresh off his 1500 metres triumph, Hicham El Guerrouj lined up alongside fellow Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele, winner of the 10,000 metres, in what was expected to be a titanic showdown of speed versus stamina.
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It was only a hundredth of a second but Justin Gatlin said it felt like a hundred miles as he won the closest and possibly greatest 100 metres final in Olympic history on Sunday.
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Mottram stuck with the leaders until the last 600m before being dropped by the increasing pace as gold medallist Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco, world record holder Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia and Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge fought it out for the medals.