Marathoner Slips to Third After Attack
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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 wound up with the bronze - and a special award for sportsmanship - and the former priest was arrested...
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An ex-priest is to learn his fate after pushing the front-runner off the road during the men's marathon in Athens.
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Great Britain slip down to third after the cross-country round of the three-day eventing.
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As she climbed the final obstacle to her first-ever marathon victory, Constantina Tomescu-Dita couldn&#39;t help looking back - back to her past, back to the ghosts that have plagued her time and time again.
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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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They battled over the final three kilometers before Carter pulled ahead for a victory by just under eight seconds. Carter covered the three-event competition in one hour, 51 minutes, 7.73 seconds.
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Italian Stefano Baldini won the Olympic men&#39;s marathon Sunday after an intruder dashed on to the course late in the race and bundled the then leader Vanderlei de Lima into the crowd.
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ATHENS -- Hardened by grueling hill work in the Swiss mountains and undeterred by the punishing Athens heat, Mizuki Noguchi seized a second straight gold medal for Japan in the women's Olympic marathon yesterday.
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ATHENS : Stefano Baldini of Italy won a dramatic men&#39;s marathon at the Olympic Gamesafter long-time race leader Vanderlei de Lima of Brazil was attacked by a spectator in the latter stages of the race.
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ATHENS, Greece - As the crackpot in a green beret and red kilt ambushed Vanderlei Lima of Brazil three miles from the finish line of the Olympic men&#39;s marathon Sunday night, Lima wondered if he was about to be murdered.
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Italian Stefano Baldini won the Olympic  men's marathon Sunday after an intruder dashed on to the course  late in the race and bundled the then leader Vanderlei de Lima  into the crowd.
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Three days of travel is not the best way for an athlete to prepare for the world athletics championships but for 16-year-old Palestinian Gharid Ghrouf the odyssey was just the start of her woes.
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Italian Stefano Baldini has won the men&#39;s marathon in a time of 2:10:54. Naturalized American Meb Keflezighi was a surprise runnerup with Brazil&#39;s Vanderlei Lima finishing third.
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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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ATHENS, Greece -- He was leading the race, but for some reason, you just had the feeling he might slow down. I don&#39;t know what it was about American Jeremy Wariner, his technique or thin muscles or something
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ATHENS -- The Games ended here last night with the last runner of the marathon making his way into Panathinaikos Stadium and the Olympic flame being doused a few hours later.
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Thrust into a difficult position, Thaddeus Pollard didn't blink, he took off. As a matter of fact, he may not have stopped running yet.