Cheruiyot, Grigoryeva returning to Marathon
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Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot is looking to move into another elite group. The winner of last year's Boston Marathon is returning for the April 21 race, hoping to become the first Kenyan man to capture four Boston titles.
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Maria Sharapova, fresh from her first Australian Open victory, got defending champions Russia back on track in the Fed Cup World Group tie against Israel on Saturday.
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The Romanian tandem of Constanta Burcica and Angela Alupei rowed back from a two-second deficit in the last half of their 2,000-meter race to Sunday to defend their title.
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World record holder Paula Radcliffe will race back into the spotlight at the New York Marathon when she returns to action for the first time since her stunning collapse at the Athens Olympic Games.
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Defending champion Lidiya Grigoryeva, 2006 winner Rita Jeptoo, and two-time runner-up Jelena Prokopcuka top a strong women's field for the 112th running of the Boston Marathon, set for April 21, sponsor John Hancock Financial announced yesterday.
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Paula Radcliffe decided there was only one way to get over the heartbreak of twin failures at the Athens Olympics: race again. She will do that Nov. 7 in the New York City Marathon, less than three months after pulling out of the event in the Summer Games. Radcliffe made the announcement Tuesday, 12 days before the race.
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NEW YORK -- Meb Keflezighi and Deena Kastor rescued American distance running at the 2004 Olympic Games. On Sunday, they have a chance to put their country back on the map as a marathon force.
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Christine Ohuruogu continues her comeback at the World Championships, easing into the 400m semi-finals.
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ATHENS -- Marion Jones returned to the Olympic track last night to do what she does best -- sprint.
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BULLETINBC-OLY--Women's Marathon RUN,0058BULLETIN    ATHENS, Greece   --  Mizuki Noguchi of Japan won the marathon Sunday in 2 hours, 26 minutes, 20 seconds.
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Bruised but unbowed, Tatiana Totmianina, the champion Russian pairs skater who had a horrific headfirst fall Saturday night at Mellon Arena, predicted yesterday that she will return to the ice within two weeks.
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Japan&#39;s Mizuki Noguchi captured the gold medal in the women&#39;s marathon at the Olympic Games in Athens on August 22. Noguchi, silver medalist in last year&#39;s world championships in Paris, took over the lead
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KOROLYOV (NEAR MOSCOW). Dec 17 (Interfax-AVN) - Astronauts Robert Curbeam and Sunita Williams have finished their spacewalk and are back on the International Space Station, Russian Mission Control told Interfax-AVN on Sunday.
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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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Sasha Cohen is changing coaches again, this time going back to John Nicks. The 2004 world and U.S. silver medalist said Wednesday she has returned to California to train with Nicks through next month's U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Portland, Ore.
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Bago restored the lustre to his reputation with a sensational return to form in the Prix de l&#39;Arc de Triomphe Lucien Barriere at Longchamp today.
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Venus Williams of the US returns a shot during a match against Elena Bovina of Russia at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow&#39;s Olympic Indoor stadium on Friday, Oct. 15, 2004.