Noguchi Wins Olympic Marathon as Radcliffe Drops Out
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Mizuki Noguchi won the women&#39;s marathon at the Athens Games, holding off world champion Catherine Ndereba of Kenya to earn Japan the title for the second straight Olympics.
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London - Paula Radcliffe has set herself the challenge of reviving her career after her Athens Olympic flop by running in the New York City Marathon next month.
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New York, Nov 8 - Paula Radcliffe has won the New York Marathon in a triumph of the human spirit to come back 11 weeks after crashing out of the Olympic marathon in Athens as well as the 10,000 metres finals.
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Japan's Ai Shibata prevailed in a sprint  finish to win the women's 800 meter freestyle gold medal at the  Athens Games Friday.
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Noguchi tamed a grueling course and ran away with the gold medal in the women&#39;s marathon at the Athens Olympics on Sunday. Noguchi, pulling away at the 25-kilometer mark, held off a late charge from Kenya&#39;s
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PAULA Radcliffe had dropped out of the marathon less than 24 hours earlier, taking her Olympic dreams and those of the nation with her.
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A âdevastatedâ Paula Radcliffe will reflect today on the tearful end to her Olympic dream after she dramatically quit a gruelling marathon.
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World marathon record holder Paula  Radcliffe believes she has put her failure at the Athens  Olympics behind her after announcing on Tuesday that she will  run in the New York marathon on November 7.
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World marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe, who dropped out of last Sunday&#39;s Athens Olympic race, will run in this evening&#39;s women&#39;s 10,000 metres final.
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Mizuki Noguchi kept the Olympic Games women's marathon title in Japan when she clinched gold here in a time of 2hrs 26min 20sec.
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Paula Radcliffe, Britain&#39;s biggest Athens gold medal hope has pulled out of the Olympic marathon less than four miles before the end of the race.
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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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ATHENS, AUGUST 23: World marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe will delay making a decision on whether or not she will run in the Olympic 10,000 metres after dropping out of Sundayâs marathon.
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A triumphant Paula Radcliffe put her Athens nightmare behind her by winning the New York City marathon today and declared: âItâs good to be back.
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CHICAGO - Evans Rutto of Kenya won his second straight Chicago Marathon on Sunday, finishing in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 16 seconds, and making him 3-for-3 at the 26.2-mile distance.    Daniel Njenga of Kenya was second in 2:07:44 and Toshinari Takaoka of Japan was third in 2:07:50...
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Marion Jones and Paula Radcliffe came up empty-handed when their Olympics ended before their races did. Tragic endings in their final events at the Athens Olympics left the two biggest female stars with no
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Former European champion Stefano Baldini of Italy overtook Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima 1.2 miles from the finish to win the Olympic men&#39;s marathon on Sunday.