Oliver Jackson, Olympic Track Coach, Is Dead at 87
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Mr. Jackson was the former Abilene Christian track and field coach whose athletes won four Olympic gold medals and set 15 world records.
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Horse racing champion Barbaro was euthanized Monday morning, co-owner Roy Jackson said
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Two runners - a college student and a retiree - died while competing in Sunday&#39;s Beijing International Marathon, it was confirmed yesterday.
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Richard Jewell, the former security guard who was wrongly linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing and then waged a decade-long battle with news organizations to defend his reputation, died Wednesday. He was 44.
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Bershawn Jackson led an American medals sweep in the 400-meter hurdles at the Athens Grand Prix Tsiklitiria meet, beating Kenneth Ferguson by a hundredth of a second (48.15 seconds). Derrick Atkins of the Bahamas dominated the 100, finishing in 9.95 seconds. Marlon Devonish of Britain was second in 10.09. The American Angela Williams won the womenâs 100 in 11.12 seconds.
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BEIJING, Jan. 28 -- Six workers have died helping to build venues for this summer's Olympic Games, including two who worked at Beijing's celebrated "Bird's Nest" stadium, a top worksafety official said Monday.
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ROCKY MOUNT, North Carolina  - Olympic and world 400 meters champion Jeremy Wariner will be coached by Michael Ford after parting company with his long-time trainer Clyde Hart, Ford said on Wednesday.
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&quot;I wanted him to stay outside,&quot; US boxing coach Basheer Abdullah would say later, &quot;and use his speed.&quot;. But when it mattered most Friday night - in the closing seconds of the Olympic light-heavyweight
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Two runners, a college student and a  retired man, died during the Beijing international marathon,  Xinhua news agency said on Monday.
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Herman Brix, 100, an Olympic shot-put medalist who became a screen Tarzan in the mid-1930s and went on to act in more than 100 other films under the name Bruce Bennett, died Feb. 24 at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, Calif. He had complications from a broken hip.
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American photojournalist Eddie Adams,  whose searing picture of the execution of a communist guerrilla  during the Vietnam War defined his career, died on Sunday aged  71, U.S. media reported.
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US players score a poignant win for coach Mike Candrea, whose wife died just before the Athens Games began. By Ailene Voisin -- Bee Sports Columnist.
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TULARE, Calif. -- Bob Mathias, the former congressman and Olympic champion, was buried in the San Joaquin Valley city where he grew up.
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Two runners, a college student and a retired man, died during the Beijing international marathon, Xinhua news agency said on Monday.
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Peter Norman, the Australian sprinter who supported black US sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos in their silent protest for equal rights on the medals podium at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, died yesterday of a heart attack at his home in Melbourne, Australia. He was 64.
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(Dennis, Massachussetts-AP) Oct. 7, 2004 - Boston Marathon legend Johnny Kelly has died at the age of 97. A family member says Kelley died quietly Wednesday night, shortly after moving into a nursing home near his Cape Cod home.
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Two-times Olympic silver medallist Willye White, the only American to compete on five Olympic athletics teams, has died at age 67, the U.S. Olympic Committee said on Tuesday.