Athletics: Shaheen record run lifts after-show party
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For Saif Saaeed Shaheen, the Memorial Van Damme in the Stade Roi Baudouin last night was the Lord Mayor&#39;s Show, not after it. He made the most of it, steeplechasing in all his
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INDIANAPOLIS, June 22 -- Bernard Lagat looked surprisingly fresh for a man who had already run a grueling mile before Friday night's 5,000 meter final at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
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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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HOLYOKE -- Once Andover's 4x100-meter relay team got word of the news, the girls were not only ecstatic, but literally jumping for joy in the middle of the track. The Golden Warriors took home a gold medal for the second week in a row after setting a state record with a time of 48.26, breaking the mark of 48.68 set ...
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Pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia and steeplechaser Saif Saaeed Shaheen of Qatar set world records at the Van Damme Memorial meet Friday.
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AFP Athens Aug 25: Hicham El Guerrouj confirmed his place in the pantheon of athletics legends at last here yesterday after winning the one title eluding him, the Olympic 1,500 metres title.
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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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The happy dancers at the famous Sankalp grounds in Mumbai had another reason to celebrate last night- the presence of the dashing Shahid Kapoor!!
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RIETI, Italy  - Asafa Powell bounced back from his disappointing third place at the world championships on Sunday when he broke his 100 meters world record with a time of 9.74 seconds.
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World record holder Asafa Powell made an impressive comeback from injury by winning the 100 meters in 9.90 seconds at a Golden League meeting on Friday.
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Kenyan Bernard Lagat sets a meet record in the mile and blisters the competition with an impressive time of 3 minutes 52.87 seconds at the Millrose Games in New York.
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It was another great night for the US track and field team as it upped its medal count to 18, just two short of the Sydney Games. The highlight was the sweep in the 200 meters.
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ATHENS, Sep 1 (IPS) - The old wisdom that you win something by just  playing the game could hardly have  been more true than for the  Iraqi, Palestinian and Afghan teams at the Olympics.
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Watertown's Ryan Quinn is used to breaking school records. Earlier this season, he broke school marks in the 55 meters, 300 meters, and 4 x 200 relay. Yesterday, he added the long jump record to his r&#xE9;sum&#xE9; with a leap of 20 feet 2 inches to win the event at the Massachusetts State Track Coaches Association Division 4 Invitational Meet ...
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Pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia and steeplechaser Saif Saaeed Shaheen of Qatar set world records at the Van Damme Memorial meet yesterday in Brussels, Belgium.
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MADRAS - Damien Martyn struck a valiant 104 to spark a remarkable Australian fightback in the second Test against India yesterday.
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Asafa Powell equaled his 100-meter world record of 9.77 seconds at the Weltklasse Golden League meet Friday night. This was the third time the Jamaican sprinter has finished in 9.77.