World Track and Field Championships: A Newcomer Becomes World Champion
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Donald Thomas, a high jumper who took up the sport only 18 months ago, became world champion against the likes of veteran technicians Stefan Holm and Yaroslav Rybakov.
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Yulia Nesterenko of Belarus became the first non-American since the 1980 Olympics to win the women&#39;s 100 metres Olympic title on Saturday.
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ATHENS, Aug. 23. - In a shade under ten seconds Justin Gatlin went from a hyperactive boy who used to jump off his parentsâ TV set dressed in a Batman cape to the holder of the most prized title in track-and-field.
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The power and grace of two young Americans lit up the night at the World Track &amp; Field Championships.
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Berlin was selected as the venue for the 2009 world track and field championships by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) here on Saturday.
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The worldâs second-most important track and field event could not fill a stadium with only 36,000 available seats in an affluent area of nearly 9 million people that has excellent public transportation.
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Track and field is a sport for the individual athlete. It's all about higher, faster, stronger, about being the first runner to cross the line, the jumper who leaps the highest, the athlete who completes the longest throw.
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ATHENS -- In another era, say as far back as the pre-BALCO days, it would have been a wonderful moment. The host country's new hero, a rising star, sets an Olympic record, wins a gold medal, and lifts the emotions of an entire nation.
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ATHENS -- The US women's trio of 100-meter sprinters, including five-time Olympian Gail Devers , all raced into the semifinals with strong, controlled performances yesterday in the debut of the track and field competition at the Olympic Stadium.
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No one in the Olympic Stadium could possibly know it at the time, but the men&#39;s long jump final last night was over almost as soon as it began.
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In his first big race as an American, Bernard Lagat won the world championship that had long eluded him.
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Liu Xiang of China won the Olympic men&#39;s 110 meters hurdles gold medal, equaling the world record time of 12.91 seconds and becoming the first Chinese man to win an Olympic track and field title.
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Reese Hoffa is unknown no more. He won the shot put Saturday while training partner Adam Nelson took second for a 1-2 U.S. finish on the opening night of the world 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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ATHENS An emotional night of spectacular action on the track and in the field raised two questions for those lucky enough to be there to see it.
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In winning the Olympic title on his first jump Thursday with the fifth-longest in 108-year Olympic history, Phillips took himself and American long jumping out from the lengthy shadow of four-time long jump gold medalist Carl Lewis and world record holder
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Justin Gatlin of the United States became the fastest man in the world after winning the men&#39;s 100 meters dash at the 28th Olympic Games here on Sunday.