Hemingway nabs silver in high jump
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Matt Hemingway, who qualified for his first Olympics on his third try and once quit high jumping because he was &quot;burned out,&quot; made sure his first Olympic experience was one to remember.
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HICHAM El Guerrouj wrote his name large in the annals of Olympic history last night when he bestrode athleticsâ middle and long-distance disciplines by completing a 1500m and 5,000m double gold.
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ATHENS - Russian Yelena Slesarenko deprived Hestrie Cloete of the high jump gold medal by soaring to the title with a display bordering on perfection.
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Ernest Hemingway's favorite bars in Havana are under new management in a drive by Cuba's Communist government to increase control over its main cash cow, the tourist trade.
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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.
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Tatyana Lebedeva led a Russian medal sweep in the long jump, relegating Marion Jones to fifth place in her only individual event of the Athens Games. Jones, who won bronze in the long jump at the 2000 Sydney Games, had a best leap of 22-5 3/4 &#151; and it was wind-aided.
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David Howell boosted his chances of qualifying for the Masters with an impressive 65 at St Andrews to jump to the top of the leaderboard at the Dunhill Links Championship.
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ATHENS : Russia&#39;s Yelena Slesarenko cleared an Olympic record height of 2.06 metres to take the Olympic Games women&#39;s high jump here.
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A newly discovered handwritten letter and short story by Ernest Hemingway will be auctioned in December, but custodians of his estate have not granted permission for the works to be published.
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French long jumper Salim Sdiri is speared by a javelin at the IAAF Golden League meeting in Rome, where Asafa Powell makes his comeback.
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Sweden's gold medal-winning high jumper Stefan Holm reckons he can leap even higher but scientists say he and other athletes were already close to the limit of what they can achieve.
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Mountain biker Marie-Helene Premont of Chateau-Richer, Que. captured the silver on a tough and sun-baked course in the suburbs of Athens today, finishing behind winner Gunn-Rita Dahle of Norway.
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ATHENS -- The golden moment can be a mirage. Yes, Carly Patterson leaped into America&#39;s hearts, but don&#39;t for a second think it was one small step. It was 10 years in the making, 10 years of sacrifice that swallowed two-thirds of her life thus far.
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Rod Pampling finished the storm-delayed third round of the Memorial with a flourish yesterday in Dublin, Ohio, holing a 40-foot birdie putt on No. 14 to take the lead and hitting a terrific fairway bunker shot that led to a birdie on 18 that capped a 4-under-par 68, giving him a three-shot lead.
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Rebecca Giddens made a final charge that nearly landed her a gold medal, but in the end the American settled for silver in yesterday's kayaking single slalom.
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LOS ANGELES  &#151; Herman Brix, the Olympic shot putter who played Tarzan in a 1935 movie, has died. He was 100.
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Bob Beamon, 1968 Olympic long jump gold medalist, is cheered on by a stream of children as he runs over the Brooklyn Bridge carrying New York&#39;s final bid for the 2012 Olympics, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2004 in New York.