Marathoner Finishes 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 Vanderlei de Lima wound up with the bronze - and a special award for sportsmanship - and the former priest was arrested...
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Trailing in 14th position before the final discipline - a three kilometre run - Harland, world No.1, made up 49 seconds on her nearest rival to snatch the bronze medal in dramatic circumstances.
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The Winnipeg native won her third gold medal of the Games on Wednesday, finishing first in the women&#39;s 100-metre freestyle event for visually impaired athletes in a time of one minute 1.74 seconds.
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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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SAO PAULO (Brazil): Olympic marathon bronze medallist Vanderlei de Lima, who was tackled by a spectator while leading the race, came home Wednesday to a heroâs welcome and said he was thrilled to earn a medal even though his fellow Brazilians believe he
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On August 30, in an unprecedented freak incident during the menâs Olympic marathon in Athens, the frontrunner Vanderlei De Lima of Brazil was tackled by a man who suddenly launched into him and knocked him into the crowd.
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The Spaniard will start tomorrowâs race from third position, and expects to run a strong race.
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Alistair Cragg couldn't believe his eyes. He saw Kenenisa Bekele , the favorite in virtually every race he enters, start sprinting for the finish line. The only problem was, there were two laps remaining in the men's 3,000-meter event at last night's Reebok Boston Indoor Games at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center.
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Stefano Baldini's victory in the men's marathon is overshadowed after Vanderlei de Lima is attacked by a spectator.
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Japan claimed gold in the women&#39;s marathon Sunday. Battling extreme heat and a difficult 42.195 kilometer course through historic Athens, Mizuki Noguchi passed the finish line in two hours, 26.
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Less than three months after she pulled out of the Olympics just a few miles from the finish, Britain&#39;s Paula Radcliffe surged ahead in the final feet of the New York City Marathon Sunday to win its tightest race in history.
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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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names The marathon distance obviously agrees with Evans Rutto . The Kenyan has run in three marathons and has won all three. Yesterday he won his second straight Chicago Marathon in 2 hours 6 minutes 16 seconds. It was the second-fastest time in the world this year. Countryman Daniel Njenga was second, 1:28 behind. Constantina Tomescu-Dita of Romania blistered the ...
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - A sports editor who led the media probe into the Greek sprinter scandal at the Athens Olympics has been hospitalized after being brutally attacked.
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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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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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Mizuki Noguchi of Japan held on for the gold and American Deena Kastor used a late burst for a stunning bronze medal finish Sunday night in the Olympic marathon. Kastor's third place gave the United States its first marathon medal since Joan Benoit's gold in Los Angeles 20 years ago.