Victory so sweet after Athens collapse
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BRITAIN&#39;S world record holder Paula Radcliffe ran away with the closest women&#39;s winning margin in the history of the New York City marathon yesterday.
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Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris says he was thrilled by the boos that greeted his absence from the 200m final.
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Yuliya Nesterenko of Belarus sped to an  unexpected victory in the women's 100 meter final at the Athens  Olympics Saturday.
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ATHENS, Greece - Itâs official - the Olympics were a success. The venues were not only finished but they stayed standing, transportation ran on time, streets were clean and security did such a good job that even petty crime went down.
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HOST nation Greece grabbed its first gold medal of the Athens Olympics this morning when Nikolaos Siranidis and Thomas Bimis won the men&#39;s three-metre synchronised diving after China&#39;s favourites suffered a no-dive.
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ATHENS - Greece woke up to the Olympics last night, the spirit as it swayed to the music of Zorba&#39;s Dance in the Olympic Stadium so infectious, so tantalizing that the finalists in the 100 meters joined in, acting more like dancers than runners minutes
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OSAKA, Japan  - The finale of the world athletics championships belonged to the glittering United States track team on a Sunday night spiced up by charismatic European performances in the field.
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ATHENS -- They did it. The Greeks did it. They gave us a top-drawer Olympics, complete with the best overall venues, the best transportation, and as helpful and cheery a volunteer staff as we've ever seen (with surely the deepest bench; I mean, was there anyone in this country who hadn't raised his or her hand when the call came?).
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Ilias Iliadis of Greece thrilled the home crowd yesterday in Athens, beating Roman Gontyuk of Ukraine to win the men's judo gold medal in the 81-kilogram class.
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Greece was plunged in national  self-satisfaction on Tuesday after its synchronized divers won  the host nation's first gold medal of the Athens Olympics.
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Greek papers are happy and relieved at the successful conclusion to the Athens Olympics, while the Chinese press looks forward to hosting the 2008 Games
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ATHENS : The 2004 Olympic Games came to a close with the men&#39;s marathon celebrating ancient Greece but with the modern curses of security and drugs casting final, depressing clouds over the showpiece.
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AN extra time &quot;golden goal&quot; ended decades of heartbreak for the Kookaburras and ensured Australia&#39;s Athens Olympians go down as the nation&#39;s most successful ever.
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Kelly Holmes lost a race and broke into a radiant smile. But then you can do that kind of thing when you are a double Olympic champion.
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International Olympic Committee  President Jacques Rogge declared the Athens Games closed on  Sunday, praising the organizers for a fantastic Olympics.
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In the end, it didn't matter which dream teams the other countries brought &#151; Greece had its own during the closing ceremony. An all-star lineup of Greek pop icons had Olympic Stadium rocking Sunday night with classic songs and new hits amid glittering fireworks, clouds of confetti and balloons.
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The last heart-pounding race of the Summer Games ended today in a white marble arena in the heart of Athens, bringing the modern Olympics full circle, back to the precise spot where they were revived 108 years ago.