Oliver Jackson, Olympic Track Coach, Is Dead at 87
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Mr. Jackson was the former Abilene Christian track and field coach whose athletes won four Olympic gold medals and set 15 world records.
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Before the Olympics, the five gold medals and the world records, Michael Johnson was a skinny kid who almost quit his high school track team because he didn't think he was good enough. Now he wants to turn youngsters into better athletes with equipment and coaching that wasn't around when he went to Dallas Skyline High.
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BEIJING, Jan. 28 -- Six workers have died helping to build venues for this summer's Olympic Games, including two who worked at Beijing's celebrated "Bird's Nest" stadium, a top worksafety official said Monday.
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Bershawn Jackson led an American medals sweep in the 400-meter hurdles at the Athens Grand Prix Tsiklitiria meet, beating Kenneth Ferguson by a hundredth of a second (48.15 seconds). Derrick Atkins of the Bahamas dominated the 100, finishing in 9.95 seconds. Marlon Devonish of Britain was second in 10.09. The American Angela Williams won the womenâs 100 in 11.12 seconds.
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A Northern Ireland-born heart expert whose pioneering techniques saved countless lives dies at the age of 88.
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US players score a poignant win for coach Mike Candrea, whose wife died just before the Athens Games began. By Ailene Voisin -- Bee Sports Columnist.
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ATLANTA   - Richard Jewell, the former security guard who was erroneously linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing, died Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.
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Herman Brix, 100, an Olympic shot-put medalist who became a screen Tarzan in the mid-1930s and went on to act in more than 100 other films under the name Bruce Bennett, died Feb. 24 at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, Calif. He had complications from a broken hip.
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Gunder Hagg, who set the mile world record in 1945 and held it until Roger Bannister broke the four-minute barrier, died at 85 after a long illness.
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The U.S. Olympic Committee banned track coach Trevor Graham from its training centers and training sites Thursday.
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Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photojournalist famous for his photo of a communist guerrilla being executed in a Saigon street, died Sept. 19 in Manhattan of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease). He was 71.
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Two runners - a college student and a retiree - died while competing in Sunday&#39;s Beijing International Marathon, it was confirmed yesterday.
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(Dennis, Massachussetts-AP) Oct. 7, 2004 - Boston Marathon legend Johnny Kelly has died at the age of 97. A family member says Kelley died quietly Wednesday night, shortly after moving into a nursing home near his Cape Cod home.
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RIETI, Italy  - Asafa Powell of Jamaica lowered the world 100 meters record on Sunday with a time of 9.74 seconds.
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Nick Skorich, an NFL head coach in Cleveland and Philadelphia and the offensive line coach on the Eagles' 1960 championship team, has died at the age of 83.
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IT IS impossible to achieve greatness in sport without being measured against history. On Saturday, the last night of athletics in the 2004 Olympics, a man and a woman, a king and a queen of the track, ran into history.
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Bob Mathias, the first Olympian to win back-to-back decathalon titles and a former U.S. congressman, dies Saturday at the age of 75.