Sports Briefing | Marathon: Top Runners Enter Trials
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Meb Keflezighi and Alan Culpepper have entered the United States Olympic team trials that will be held Nov. 3 in Central Park. Dan Browne will also try for a spot on the American squad for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, USA Track & Field and the New York Road Runners said yesterday. Keflezighi won a silver medal in the marathon at the Athens Games, and Culpepper finished 12th. Browne competed in the 10,000 meters and the marathon in Athens.
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Catherine Ndereba and Timothy Cherigat of Kenya will return to Boston to defend their titles in the 109th running of the Boston Marathon April 18, to be joined by one of the top United States marathoners, Olympian Alan Culpepper of Lafayette, Colo.
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International Final Qualifying (IFQ) for the British Open gets underway in South Africa on Tuesday.
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Long-distance runner Paula Radcliffe is tipped to add to Britain&#39;s Olympic gold medal tally when she competes in the women&#39;s marathon today.
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Kenya's Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot will have plenty of top-shelf company when he defends his title in the 111th running of the Boston Marathon April 16. Besides 2005 victor Hailu Negussie , the first Ethiopian to win in 16 years, the elite men's field includes last year's runner-up Benjamin Maiyo , 2004 runner-up Robert Cheboror , New York runner-up Stephen Kiogora, ...
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LONDON (Ticker) - A new route for a London marathon is expected to be unveiled later this week, when details of the city&#39;s bid for the 2012 Olympics are announced.
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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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ATHENS -- The two best 10,000-meter runners in history, two slender athletes from an impoverished country, met on the greatest stage of them all last night to decide if the new truly had surpassed the old.
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Marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe will compete in the ING New York City Marathon next month. Radcliffe says she is looking forward to taking part in the race, especially after her disappointment in Athens.
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OSHKOSH, Wis. - Why should elite athletes get all the big endorsement dollars and free stuff? That's what recently ran through the mind of Grace Lim, a back-of-the-pack marathon runner...
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Haile Gebrselassie, one of the greatest  long distance runners of all time, bids to make Olympic history  on Friday as the athletics program opens in Athens.
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Runners who were affected by a technical problem with the timing system at the New York City Marathon were asked by race organizers to submit their time according to their own measurement.
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The search for the reasons behind Paula Radcliffe&#39;s disastrous performance in the Olympic marathon moved yesterday to a medical laboratory in Athens, where blood samples taken from the 30-year-old athlete were being analysed in the hope of discovering
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Top distance runner Ryan Shay died during the U.S. men's Olympic marathon trials Saturday after collapsing about 5 1/2 miles into the race. He was 28
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This was all about Athens, about redemption for one and validation for the other. Britain&#39;s Paula Radcliffe, the fastest female marathoner in history
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Seven times Tour de France cycling champion Lance Armstrong has entered the Boston Marathon on April 21, organisers said on Thursday.
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Haile Gebrselassie, one of the greatest long distance runners of all time, bids to make Olympic history on Friday as the athletics program opens in Athens.