Guerrouj makes history in middle-distance running in second-last ...
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ATHENS (CP) - Hicham El Guerrouj passed Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia with about 50 metres remaining in the 5,000-metre race Saturday, making the Morocco runner the first man in eight decades to sweep the middle-distance races at the Summer Olympics.
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In a wild sprint to the finish, Kenyan Luke Metto edged countryman Wilson Kigen to win the BAA Half Marathon yesterday, though both were credited with the same time -- a record-breaking 1 hour 2 minutes 57 seconds.
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Hicham El Guerrouj was likening the meaning of his daughter&#39;s name to the precious gold he had earned, but the Moroccan might as well have been describing the last half of the men&#39;s 1,500 meters at Olympic Stadium last night.
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Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj and Briton  Kelly Holmes completed historic doubles on the Olympic  athletics track Saturday as the penultimate day of the Athens  Games brought two of its greatest moments.
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Tyson Gay won the 200 meters in 19.68 seconds at the World Athletics Final on Sunday &#151; only two men have run faster times.
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Hicham El Guerrouj arrived at the Games with a slew of world records â-n the 1,500 meters, mile and 2,000, indoors and outdoors â - no Olympic gold medal.
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Austria&#39;s Johann Grugger passes a gate on his way to setting the fastest time during a training session for a World Cup men&#39;s downhill race in Bormio, Italy, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004.
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Kenenisa Bekele wins a classic 10,000m encounter with the great Haile Gebrselassie back in 5th.
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NEW DELHI -- Kenya&#39;s Paul Kirui won the World half-marathon Sunday and China&#39;s Sun Ying Jie took the women&#39;s race. The 24-year-old Kirui finished in 1 hour, 2 minutes, 15 seconds, beating Tanzania&#39;s Fabiano Joseph by 16 seconds.
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Trindon Holliday's approach on the track is the same as it is as on the football field &#151; run away. The LSU sophomore turned in a personal-best time of 10.02 seconds in the 100-meter semifinals Wednesday night at the NCAA track and field championships. It's the third-fastest time in the world this year and set up a showdown with Florida State's Walter Dix, who finished second in 10.13.
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Justin Gatlin ran the race of his life Sunday night, barely holding off the fastest Olympic 100 field in history to win the gold in 9.85 seconds. Francis Obikwelu of Portugal got the silver in 9.86. Defending champion Maurice Greene won bronze in 9.87, falling short in his quest to crown himself the "greatest sprinter of all time."
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Athens: With a strong kick down the stretch and a kiss of the ground once across the finish line, Hicham El Guerrouj finally got what he was after: an Olympic gold medal.
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CHAMONIX, France  - Johann Grugger threw down the  gauntlet to his more established opponents Saturday, winning  his second downhill in succession with a confident victory in  Chamonix.
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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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Hicham El Guerrouj, hailed by his peers  as the greatest 1,500 meter runner of all time, seeks to seal  his place in sporting history on Tuesday by winning the Olympic  gold that has always eluded him.
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OSTRAVA, Czech Republic  - Twice Olympic 10,000 meters champion Haile Gebrselassie broke the world one-hour and 20 kilometers marks at the "Golden Spike" grand prix athletics meeting on Wednesday.
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America's Justin Gatlin runa the race of his life, barely holding off the field Sunday to win the 100 meters in 9.85 seconds.