Marathon heartbreaker
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There&#39;s got to be a better way of spreading the word of God -- or whatever it is former Catholic priest Cornelius Horan is trying to do -- than wrecking sports events.
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Here's the painful story of someone who did.
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The last event on the final day of Olympic competition ended in more embarrassment for the Greek organisers yesterday when the leader of the men&#39;s marathon was bundled off the course by a protester.
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Thirty-six kilometres into the men&#39;s Olympic marathon on Sunday, Vanderlei Lima&#39;s chances of winning were taken from him after he was tackled in bizarre manner by the Irish serial pest Cornelius Horan.
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He&#39;ll scan through the results of the New York City Marathon and grimace. He&#39;ll search desperately for the first American finisher -- geez, where is the first American finisher?
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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.
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Paula Radcliffe is running in the New York marathon, her first since failing to get gold in Athens. It&#39;s just ten weeks since she tearfully dropped out of the marathon and 10,000m at the Olympics in Greece.
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Meb Keflezighi knows what people think. That he&#39;s foolish for running the IMG New York City Marathon on Sunday. That 70 days isn&#39;t enough time to recover after his emotional performance at
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The former champion marathoner Alberto Salazar was hospitalized in serious condition yesterday after collapsing the day before at the Nike campus in Beaverton, Ore.Doctors were conducting additional tests to learn the cause of Salazarâs âheart event,â said Lisa Helderop, a spokeswoman at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center. Salazar, 48, collapsed Saturday while coaching distance runners at the campus outside Portland, the Nike spokesman Bob Applegate said.He was awake and alert when he arrived at the hospital, and a stent was inserted to open an artery. Salazar won the New York City Marathon three straight years (1980-82) and the Boston Marathon in 1982. He has set six United States records and one world record. He is a longtime Nike employee and consultant who trains elite distance runners and has a building named for him on campus.
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Julie Grimm was training for a marathon last April when she started feeling a twinge in her hip. She assumed that some moments in her training would be painful, so she ignored it and kept running.
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Japan&#39;s Mizuki Nogushi won the first Olympic marathon raced from the historic site in 108 years on Sunday, but for Britain the race turned into heartbreak as its top runner quit in tears.
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Japan&#39;s diminutive Mizuki Noguchi put on an extraordinary display of front-running to win the Olympic women&#39;s marathon title as Paula Radcliffe&#39;s challenge ended in bitter tears.
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Paula Radcliffe has withdrawn in tears after just over two hours of the Olympic women&#39;s marathon. The world record holder and big favourite was in fourth place at the time but was losing ground.
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An exhausted Paula Radcliffe fails to finish in Athens as Japan's Mizuki Noguchi wins the women's marathon.
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Paula Radcliffe decided there was only one way to get over the heartbreak of twin failures at the Athens Olympics: race again. She will do that Nov. 7 in the New York City Marathon, less than three months
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Battered and beaten, Ron Zook jogged away from another disappointment Saturday evening. Once again, the ache was chiseled into the lines across his face, from the tightness
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Almost 13 million UK viewers tuned in to watch Paula Radcliffe attempt to run the Olympic 10,000 metres on Friday. Radcliffe dropped out of the race with 12 of the 25 laps to go, just five days after quitting the marathon in tears.