WOMEN&#39;S MARATHON The Pain of Defeat Is Still Fresh
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Crushed by her failure to finish the women&#39;s Olympic marathon Sunday, Paula Radcliffe broke down twice yesterday as she struggled to explain how her dreams were shattered.
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Nicole Cooke could ride in four or more Olympics but the pain of her first will always be with her. After finishing just outside the medal placings in Sunday&#39;s road race, the Welsh cyclist put herself through another half-hour of sun-baked agony in the ...
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Anyone who has ever run a marathon will be able to tell you that it can take days, sometimes even weeks, to recover from the physical effort of running 26.
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com. Perhaps the marathon isn&#39;t destined to be a lingering source of American frustration after all. By Don Emmert, AFP. In Athens, US marathoners came back with two medals.
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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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Crushed by her failure to finish in the women&#39;s marathon on Sunday, a shell-shocked Paula Radcliffe broke down twice again Monday as she struggled to explain how her dreams were shattered.
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Noguchi tamed a grueling course and ran away with the gold medal in the women&#39;s marathon at the Athens Olympics on Sunday. Noguchi, pulling away at the 25-kilometer mark, held off a late charge from Kenya&#39;s
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ATHENS In her semifinal, Fani Halkia had run the fastest women&#39;s 400-meter hurdles in Olympic history. After the final on Wednesday night she ran what might have been the slowest victory lap.
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ATHENS -- Hardened by grueling hill work in the Swiss mountains and undeterred by the punishing Athens heat, Mizuki Noguchi seized a second straight gold medal for Japan in the women's Olympic marathon yesterday.
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There was more Olympics heartache for Paula Radcliffe when she pulled up in her second race in a week. The 30-year-old British runner dropped out of Friday&#39;s 10,000m with nine of the 25 laps left to go.
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This was all about Athens, about redemption for one and validation for the other. Britain&#39;s Paula Radcliffe, the fastest female marathoner in history
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ATHENS, Greece -- Lori Harrigan&#39;s eyes got teary with nearly the speed of one of her fastballs when reminded that these Olympics - her third games - will be her last.
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In 2004 and 2005 Jen Toomey had great years but followed those with a year and a half of injuries. At Saturdayâs Reebok Boston Indoor Games she will be part of a strong field in the womenâs mile.
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Japan&#39;s diminutive Mizuki Noguchi put on an extraordinary display of front-running to win the Olympic women&#39;s marathon title as Paula Radcliffe&#39;s challenge ended in bitter tears.
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ATHENS The marathon was inspired by suffering, and on the day an event that is as much a test of character as a test of endurance returned to its Olympic roots and the evocative marble horseshoe that is Panathanaiko stadium, the suffering returned, too.
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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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Paula Radcliffe has never faced the kind of pressure she will encounter when she runs in the New York City Marathon here today. Just 10 weeks after failing so dramatically to complete the Olympic marathon