Athletics: Champion of champions
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&quot;Hee-sham! Hee-sham! Hee-sham!&quot; they called, pressing flesh against the chest-high fence that separates the champions from the hordes in the belly of the Olympic Stadium.
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Sport: Athletics:  Gold winner urges BOA to lift Olympic ban.
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Olympic champions have their parents to thank for their physiology&#151;but no one is born a world-record holder. That also requires training, nutrition, desire, and determination.
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Birmingham: With both joint holders out, the Champions Trophy will have a new champion. While India exited on Sunday, Sri Lanka went out 24 hours earlier.
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Athens -- It&#39;s always a pleasure watching masters of their craft at work, and such a moment occurred Friday night on the first full day of Olympic track and field competition when men with long-distance motors lined up for the final of the 10,000 meters.
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What a night for U.S. athletes in Olympic track and field. Even in the event that went to another country, an American won. Shawn Crawford, Bernard Williams and Justin Gatlin swept the 200. Dwight Phillips and John Moffitt went 1-2 in the long jump. Marion Jones and the 400-meter relay team cruised into the finals.
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New York - Paul Hamm says Thursday&#39;s decision from sports&#39; highest court confirms what he&#39;s always felt in his heart. That he was champion in the men&#39;s all around that night at the Athens Games and Olympic gold medalist.
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The Bishop Feehan boys' and girls' track teams now share more than just the same dedicated coach. After sweeping yesterday's Massachusetts State Track Coaches Association Division 3 James Kalperis Relays at the Reggie Lewis Center, the squads are both champions.
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PARIS The verdict is in: The world&#39;s greatest race car driver, the champion of champions - all disciplines combined - is Heikki Kovalainen.
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Walter Dix completed a triumphant week at the NCAA track and field championships in Sacramento, by repeating as 200-meter champion yesterday and leading Florida State to its second consecutive team title.
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The Olympic 100 metres champion, Justin Gatlin, won the final sprint showdown of the season in Japan. Gatlin clocked 9.97sec to triumph in the Seiko Super meeting in Yokohama.
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Sport: Australian Open: Champion in imperious form in easy victory over Fabrice Santoro
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Monte-Carlo - Olympic champions Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia and Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia have been announced as the 2004 Athletes of the Year on stage tonight at the climax to the spectacular 2004 World Athletics Gala at the Grimaldi Forum, Monte-Carlo
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Winning the 100 meters at the Olympics isn&#39;t simply a tradition carried on by generations of American women sprinters, it&#39;s an exercise in domination.
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Lying in Amy Acuff&#39;s path to the high-jump bar was an exhausted and jubilant English sprinter. Britain had just upset the United States in the men&#39;s 4x100-meter relay on Saturday.
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Comment is free: Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Football, athletics, even cricket - the stain of cheating and doping now seems ingrained in our most cherished games.
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OSAKA, Japan - She is graceful, gracious, and oh so fast. Allyson Felix ran one of the greatest 400-meter relay legs in the sport's history last night to help the United States bring a triumphant end to its most dominant showing ever at a World Track and Field Championships.