Moroccan completes golden double
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ATHENSâHicham El Guerrouj became the first man in 80 years to sweep the 1,500 and 5,000 metres at an Olympics, holding up two fingers in triumph after winning the 5,000 yesterday in an all-out sprint down the final straightaway.
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com. Hours after its men&#39;s soccer team beat Paraguay for the country&#39;s first Olympic gold medal in any sport since 1952, the Argentine men&#39;s basketball team made it a double
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Roma striker Francesco Totti wins the European Golden Boot after scoring 26 times last season.
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Marlies Schild completed a double on Semmering's Magic Mountain on Wednesday, winning a World Cup slalom in convincing fashion after victory in Tuesday's giant slalom.
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ATHENS : Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco became the first male athlete since Paavo Nurmi in 1924 to pull off the Olympic Games 1500-5000 metres double here.
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Patrick Kluivert was hailed as a world class striker by Newcastle boss Graeme Souness after the Dutchman continued to defy the critics by scoring twice in his side&#39;s 5-1 UEFA Cup win over Bnei Sakhnin on Thursday.
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Sulley Muntari's last-gasp wonder goal gives hosts Ghana a 2-1 win in their opening Africa Cup of Nations game against Guinea.
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Hicham El Guerrouj became the first man in 80 years to win the 1,500 and 5,000 meters at one Olympics, holding up two fingers in triumph Saturday after outsprinting the world record holder down the final straightaway of the 5,000.
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Morocco&#39;s Hicham El Guerrouj and Briton Kelly Holmes completed historic doubles on the Olympic athletics track Saturday as the penultimate day of the Athens Games brought two of its greatest moments.
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Athens: With a strong kick down the stretch and a kiss of the ground once across the finish line, Hicham El Guerrouj finally got what he was after: an Olympic gold medal.
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During a nap, hours before his 5,000-meter final, Morocco&#39;s Hicham El Guerrouj had a grand dream. He wanted to make history and be like legendary countryman and distance runner Said Aouita.
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Kelly Holmes of Britain completed a rare double when she captured the Olympic gold medal in the 1,500-meter race Saturday to go with her win in the 800.
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Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj and Briton  Kelly Holmes completed historic doubles on the Olympic  athletics track on Saturday as the penultimate day of the  Athens Games brought two of its greatest moments.
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Outsider Athanasia Tsoumeleka snatched the women&#39;s Olympic 20km race walk title after a thrilling finish to give hosts Greece their first athletics gold of the Games.
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Bradley Wiggins wins Great Britain's second cycling gold in the men's individual pursuit.
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MONACO: Bahrain&#39;s Youssef Saad Kamel raced to his second successive 800m victory on the opening afternoon of the two-day world athletics final yesterday.
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Patrick Kluivert struck twice for Newcastle United in a 2-0 victory over Bnei Sakhnin of Israel, thefirst Arab team to play in the UEFA Cup first-round, first-leg match on Thursday.