Outsider wins marathon
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JAPAN&#39;S Mizuki Noguchi foiled premature British celebrations to win the women&#39;s marathon today, beating world record-holder and scorching favourite Paula Radcliffe.
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Competition at the Athens Olympics is over with Italy&#39;s Stefano Baldini winning a bizarre men&#39;s marathon. Brazil&#39;s Vanderlei Lima was leading the race six kilometers from the finish when an unidentified man
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ATHENS, Greece - A defrocked Irish priest bolted from the crowd and grabbed the marathon leader about three miles from the finish Sunday. The Brazilian runner Vanderlei de Lima wound up with the bronze - and a special award for sportsmanship - and the former priest was arrested...
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Gete Wami of Ethiopia is running the Berlin Marathon on Sept. 30, then the New York City Marathon five weeks later. Such a turnaround is mostly unheard of in distance running.
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Former European champion Stefano Baldini of Italy overtook Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima 1.2 miles from the finish to win the Olympic men&#39;s marathon on Sunday.
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A defrocked Irish priest bolted from the crowd and grabbed the marathon leader about three miles from the finish Sunday. The Brazilian runner Vanderlei de Lima wound up with the bronze &#151; and a special award for sportsmanship &#151; and the former priest was arrested.
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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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Italy&#39;s Stefano Baldini won the men&#39;s marathon after a spectator attacked the leader, and a record third gold medalist was stripped of the award because of drugs as the Athens Olympics came to a close.
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Britain's world record holder Paula  Radcliffe won the women's New York marathon Sunday in an  unofficial two hours 23 minutes seven seconds.
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Maybe this will make up for her Olympic heartbreak. Britain's Paula Radcliffe surged ahead in the final feet Sunday to win the tightest New York City Marathon in history in 2 hours, 23 minutes, 10 seconds - less than three months after pulling out of the Athens Games just a few miles from the finish in a fit of tears.
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The winner, Werner Franz of Austria, was second out of the starting gate, and did not suffer from the biting cold and harsh wind faced by the later runners.
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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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Evans Rutto won the menâs Chicago Marathon race for a second straight year on Sunday, finishing in 2:06:16, the second-fastest time in the world this year.
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Sonia O&#39;Sullivan was not despondent after missing out on an IAAF World Half-Marathon Championships medal in New Delhi today. &quot;It was tough, very hard from the very beginning of the race,&quot; admitted O&#39;Sullivan who finished in one hour 10minutes 33seconds.
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Mitt Romney became the latest presidential candidate to position himself as an outsider running against Washington.
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Ethiopia's Dejene Berhanu breaks the course record as he wins the Great North Run.
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American Deena Kastor crosed the finish line crying as she captured the bronze medal in the marathon Sunday. She finished the course in 2 hours, 27 minutes, 19 seconds.