Track and Field: On Favorite Track for Many, Return for One Top Runner
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Danielle Tauro, who won last yearâs mile in the outdoor national high school championships, had plenty to smile about after Saturday's 53rd annual Bishop Laughlin Games.
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YOKOHAMA, Japan: Olympic 100 metres champion Justin Gatlin justified his status as the world&#39;s best sprinter with a comprehensive victory in the Seiko Super track and field meeting yesterday.
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ATHENS An emotional night of spectacular action on the track and in the field raised two questions for those lucky enough to be there to see it.
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For great athletes like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods, there is a fellowship at the top.
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Allyson Felix got her triple gold. U.S. teammate Bernard Lagat got a double for doing something no one had ever done at the track and field world championships.
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Tyson Gay says that Lance Brauman, who has not been on the track in the last nine months, is the main reason that the runner is a favorite in championships that begin Saturday.
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Usually at sporting events, people know who wins and who loses or who comes in first, second, third and so forth by the score. In fact, there is no other way to run athletic competitions; most would agree
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A month ago, Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia thought there was a decent chance she could contend for the world record in the women's 5,000-meter race at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games. But that confidence was eroded somewhat over the last couple of weeks because she had altered her training in hopes of qualifying for the World Cross Country Championships scheduled ...
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The biggest smile in track and field got a little bigger last night, and the long jump gold medal is solidly back in American hands.
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ATHENS -- The two best 10,000-meter runners in history, two slender athletes from an impoverished country, met on the greatest stage of them all last night to decide if the new truly had surpassed the old.
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USA Track & Field (USATF) Chief Executive Officer Craig Masback has left the organization to join Nike, the USATF announced on Wednesday.
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ATHENS -- In a bold statement that the new order in American track is much like the old, 20-year-old Jeremy Wariner of Baylor University ran down Otis Harris in the stretch last night to lead an authoritative US sweep of the Olympic men's 400-meter race.
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Michael Jennings was a track star at Florida State who also wanted to play football but wasn't confident enough to forgo a track scholarship and try the sport as a walk-on for &quot;a team that good.&quot;
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For decades, indoor track was like vaudeville. There was an established circuit -- Washington, Philadelphia, Cleveland, New York, Boston -- with an event nearly every winter weekend and competitors and officials traveling by train.
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The second season for high school track and field stars began yesterday at the Reggie Lewis Center as more than 600 students looked to kick off the final stretch of the 2006-07 indoor track season in victorious fashion at the Mass. State Track Coaches Association's Elite Meet.
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One was running to put a final stamp on his team's championship, the other to pull his squad near the top of the point totals.
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As track and field begins at the Games, it is up to athletes to set right a sport seared by scandal.