A Spectator Disrupts the Marathon With a Shove
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It took 108 years for the men&#39;s Olympic marathon to return to its origins, and just a moment for a defrocked Irish priest to affect the legitimacy of the result.
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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.
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Alistair Cragg couldn't believe his eyes. He saw Kenenisa Bekele , the favorite in virtually every race he enters, start sprinting for the finish line. The only problem was, there were two laps remaining in the men's 3,000-meter event at last night's Reebok Boston Indoor Games at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center.
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In a bizarre and stunning conclusion to the Olympic Games, the leader of the men&#39;s marathon was grabbed by a former Irish priest and pushed into the crowd about three miles from the finish.
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Serious fun lit up the Olympics last night. A showdown among the swaggering gunslingers who populate the sprint community, celebrated by 72,000 spectators for a full 10 minutes prior
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OSHKOSH, Wis. - Why should elite athletes get all the big endorsement dollars and free stuff? That's what recently ran through the mind of Grace Lim, a back-of-the-pack marathon runner...
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The Brazilian Olympic Committee will lodge an appeal against the result of Sunday&#39;s Athens marathon, after it was disrupted by a spectator.
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A heckler who briefly interrupted a speech by Democrat John Kerry on Wednesday said he was assaulted by men near him in the crowd before others shouted him down.
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There aren't many reality shows in which a guy, racing around a track against fellow contestants, slides into the finish line, skins his elbows and offers this assessment: "You bleed and sacrifice for the people."
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A Greek court has given a former Irish priest a suspended 12-month jail sentence and a 3,000 euro (2,000 pound) fine for pushing a leading Olympic marathon runner off the road, a court source says.
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THE defiant taunts cascaded down from the Olympic stadium grandstands for minutes. &quot;Hellas, Hellas,&quot; followed by &quot;Kenteris, Kenteris&quot; - an angry display that held up the main event of Thursday&#39;s athletics program.
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Motorsport.com. Momentum is a funny thing in racing. It&#39;s not something that you can see or hear. It&#39;s not easy to put your finger on exactly when it starts.
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Thirty-six kilometres into the men&#39;s Olympic marathon on Sunday, Vanderlei Lima&#39;s chances of winning were taken from him after he was tackled in bizarre manner by the Irish serial pest Cornelius Horan.
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ARM gets slapped for making a pricey buy.
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Brazilian marathon runner Vanderlei de Lima asked sport&#39;s highest review panel to award him an Olympic gold medal after he was attacked by a spectator while leading the race at the Athens Games.
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An early leader out of the gate faces stiff competition in the stretch.
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The world&#039;s fastest humans teased track fans on Sunday, offering a tantalizing hint of how great a race between them might be.