Johnson takes the marathon path to redemption
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BENITA JOHNSON is not one of those cautious people who baulks at trying new things. Rather, the rake-thin distance runner adds a different challenge to her agenda every year.
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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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Even in the immediate afterglow of her bronze medal in the Olympic marathon in August, Deena (Drossin) Kastor was thinking of Sunday&#39;s New York City Marathon.
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CONCORD, NC -- Jimmie Johnson thought he needed a victory to get himself back into contention for the Nextel Cup championship. He got it, and it still wasn&#39;t enough.
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ATHENS, Greece -- I could see Vanderlei de Lima of Brazil running almost straight toward me. The 5-5, 119-pound marathon competitor had started with the rest of the men in the hill town of Marathon, the place where it all began 2,494 years ago.
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It&#39;s not hard to replenish your love for the most consuming festival in sport. You climb to the highest tier of the antique marble stadium where Paula Radcliffe will finish her marathon on Sunday, sit beneath the five giant Olympic rings ...
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HAVING shown her indomitable spirit by winning the New York Marathon ten days ago, just 11 weeks after the trauma of Athens, Paula Radcliffe yesterday decided to turn her attention to scaling
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Jimmie Johnson went from top contender to also-ran to unbeatable, and now he has all the momentum heading into the last race of the Nextel Cup season.
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Jimmie Johnson pulled away from Rusty Wallace and Ryan Newman in the Subway 500 to climb four spots in the season ending title chase Sunday.
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What should be a joyful and hopeful time for Jimmie Johnson has instead been bittersweet. While Johnson has won three straight races and moved back into contention for the Nextel Cup championship, he can&#39;t
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This one lacked the pathos of Sunday&#39;s marathon but it was another sad and bewildering early departure for Paula Radcliffe, who managed only 16Â½ circuits in the 25-lap women&#39;s 10,000 metres
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A âdevastatedâ Paula Radcliffe will reflect today on the tearful end to her Olympic dream after she dramatically quit a gruelling marathon.
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Zach Johnson kept his head up and waited for things to get better, as he knew they would. Even though he missed four makable birdie putts and bogeyed one of the five holes he had to play at dawn Saturday to complete his rain-delayed second round, Johnson had an inkling this was going to be his day at the International.
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NEW YORK -- Meb Keflezighi and Deena Kastor rescued American distance running at the 2004 Olympic Games. On Sunday, they have a chance to put their country back on the map as a marathon force.
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From his perch 30 rows above Olympic Stadium&#39;s bright red track Monday night, Michael Johnson - the five-time Olympic gold medalist who once dominated the long sprints in track and field with cool detachment - had gleefully lost his stone-faced
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ATHENS - To understand the moment of triumph, one must understand the 2 hours, 26 minutes, 20 seconds of cruelty. The favorite, the world-record holder in the women&#39;s marathon, Paula Radcliffe, led a pack
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PALM DESERT, California  - A little more than a decade after grudgingly serving breakfast to former world number one David Duval in an Augusta restaurant, Britain's Richard Johnson has finally established himself on the PGA Tour.