Decathletes Struggle for Any Recognition
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Paul Terek and the other United States decathletes have a much lower profile than decathlete stars like Bruce Jenner, Bob Mathias and Rafer Johnson once did.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Is this you? You hate the Olympics. You don&#39;t know the difference between a discus and a high beam. You think Michael Phelps is the leader of a group of highly specialized government agents.
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Lack of education, sexist male officials and traditional views on marriage remain major stumbling blocks for Kenyan girls aspiring to be athletes, says one of the country's first female Olympians.
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The 800 meters is the forgotten race in the United States. Nick Symmonds is on a fast track from obscurity to change that.
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NEW YORK  - Without enough exercise, even  those impossible bodies on display at the Olympics are in  danger of rapidly morphing into the shape of a couch potato, a  study of endurance athletes shows.
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In many Olympics competitions winners and losers are determined by less than a fraction of a point and even the slightest error in scoring can set back an athlete from the gold to the bronze.
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The showcase for the world's athletes doesn't produce marquee names for advertisers.
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ATHENS - After six events in the decathlon, Americans Bryan Clay and Tom Pappas are poised for possible medals in third and fourth place, respectively, at the 2004 Olympic Games.
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Opponents aren't the only ones having a tough time matching Max Darrah's pace. Record-keepers are struggling to keep up, as well.
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Deena Kastor, as humble an athlete as they come, has been struggling with her newfound fame. For the last two months, Kastor has made the daily trek to her post office in tiny
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A new breed of marathoners has emerged, and they are more inclined to complete than compete.
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This is only February, and six months remain before the Beijing Olympics, but many elite track and field athletes are already establishing their Olympic credentials or trying and not succeeding.
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ATHENS, Greece - The preliminaries in the 100 meters were perhaps just a sample of what's to come Sunday, when a talented group of qualifiers - including Americans Shawn Crawford, Justin Gatlin and defending champion Maurice Greene - will try to turn their competition into the fastest show at the Athens Games.    Five men broke 10 seconds in qualifying Saturday, led by Crawford's time of 9.89...
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ATHENS - The US men have a basketball medal, but there is little consolation in the prize. Third place fell a couple of steps short of expectations, but the Americans had nowhere else to go Saturday in what
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Track and fieldâs world governing body ruled that a double-amputee sprinterâs state-of-the-art prosthetics give him an unfair advantage.
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Miikka Kiprusoff is carrying the weight of a small European country aching for athletic success.
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ATHENS: Seldom have sporting moments of inconceivable pain and delirious joy covered more emotional ground yet been so difficult to distinguish.