Marathon leader attacked, but result stands
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Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima was tonight involved in the first high-profile security breach of the Olympic Games as a spectator watching the menâs marathon accosted the long-time race leader.
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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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Vanderlei de Lima of Brazil was pushed  off the road by a lone protester while leading the men's  Olympic marathon on Sunday.
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Yoko Shibui continued Japan&#39;s supremacy in the Berlin women&#39;s marathon and Felix Limo extended Kenya&#39;s dominance of the men&#39;s race Sunday.
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After winning his third Half Marathon title of the year beating last edition&#39;s silver medallist Fabiano Joseph, Kenyan Paul Kirui said he was not all afraid of competing against the Tanzanian.
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ATHENS, Greece -- I could see Vanderlei de Lima of Brazil running almost straight toward me. The 5-5, 119-pound marathon competitor had started with the rest of the men in the hill town of Marathon, the place where it all began 2,494 years ago.
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Athletics chiefs rule that double amputee's running blades give him an unfair advantage
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The marathon produced a range of different emotions as the athletes battled with each other and the heat of Athens. Mizuki Noguchi of Japan took the Gold in 2 hours, 26 minutes, 20 seconds, followed by Ndereba of Kenya 49 seconds behind.
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An ex-priest is to learn his fate after pushing the front-runner off the road during the men's marathon in Athens.
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Alistair Cragg couldn't believe his eyes. He saw Kenenisa Bekele , the favorite in virtually every race he enters, start sprinting for the finish line. The only problem was, there were two laps remaining in the men's 3,000-meter event at last night's Reebok Boston Indoor Games at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center.
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ATHENS, Greece - Stefano Baldini of Italy took the lead two miles from the finish to win the gold medal and American Meb Keflezighi took a stunning silver Sunday in an Olympic marathon disrupted by a costumed intruder who grabbed race leader Vanderlei Lima of Brazil with about three miles to go.    Lima, whose lead had been slowly shrinking, was pushed to the curb by a man dressed in green beret, red kilt and knee-high green socks...
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ATHENS, Greece - A defrocked Irish priest with a history of disrupting sports events was given a one-year suspended sentence and fined $3,600 Monday for grabbing a runner who was leading the Olympic marathon with three miles to go.    Cornelius Horan was convicted by a misdemeanor court of violating Greece's laws on extracurricular sports for knocking Vanderlei de Lima into the crowd on Sunday...
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Alberto Salazar, the former champion marathoner, who collapsed over the weekend, had his condition upgraded yesterday to fair from serious. A cardiologist at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center said Salazar had a heart attack while coaching distance runners Saturday at the Nike campus outside Portland, Ore., a hospital spokeswoman said.
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ATHENS -- The Games ended here last night with the last runner of the marathon making his way into Panathinaikos Stadium and the Olympic flame being doused a few hours later.
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Stefano Baldini of Italy overtook Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima two kilometers from the finish to win the Olympic men&#39;s marathon on August 29.. The former European champion clocked two hours, 10 minutes and
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The former champion marathoner Alberto Salazar was hospitalized in serious condition yesterday after collapsing the day before at the Nike campus in Beaverton, Ore.Doctors were conducting additional tests to learn the cause of Salazarâs âheart event,â said Lisa Helderop, a spokeswoman at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center. Salazar, 48, collapsed Saturday while coaching distance runners at the campus outside Portland, the Nike spokesman Bob Applegate said.He was awake and alert when he arrived at the hospital, and a stent was inserted to open an artery. Salazar won the New York City Marathon three straight years (1980-82) and the Boston Marathon in 1982. He has set six United States records and one world record. He is a longtime Nike employee and consultant who trains elite distance runners and has a building named for him on campus.