Nesterenko surprises in 100
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For the first time in 20 years, an American woman did not win the 100-meter dash at the Olympic Games. And now, after Yuliya Nesterenko of Belarus
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Belarus&#39; Yuliya Nesterenko became the fastest woman in the world, winning the 100m gold medal at the Olympic Games here Saturday evening.
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France's Frederick Bousquet caused a surprise by winning the men's 100m freestyle in 47.52sec at the European short course swimming championships.
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Minsk- Olympic 100 metres champion Yuliya Nesterenko has been taken to hospital after suffering stomach problems and stress, an official said on Tuesday.
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A simple question yields a surprising answer.
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Lioubov Galkina sets an Olympic record as she wins the women's 50m rifle three positions.
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Yulia Nesterenko of Belarus became the first non-American since the 1980 Olympics to win the women&#39;s 100 metres Olympic title on Saturday.
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Olympic 100 metres champion Yuliya Nesterenko has been voted Belarus Athlete of the Year in a nationwide poll of the country&#39;s sports journalists.
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ATHENS, Greece  -- The diva does not warm up before her performance. Not much, anyway. That is something that other gymnasts do, and Svetlana Khorkina will never be confused with one of those.
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ATHENS - As soon as the little-known Belarusian sprinter crossed the finish line to win the womenâs 100 metres, the cross-examination began.
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You do the math. With the first, third and fourth place finishers in the 100-meter dash joining forces on one 4x100 relay team, doesn&#39;t it figure that they should beat the competition?
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Belarus&#39; Yuliya Nesterenko won the top women&#39;s athletics gold medal at the Olympics on Saturday, triumphing over a field stripped of many big names because of doping woes to win the 100 meters.
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Vouliagmeni, Greece - Watch Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel, think Hermann Maier. Awful crash, unlikely fightback, gold within days. Instant Olympic lore.
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Gold medals are rare enough commodities but they become even more precious when won as unexpectedly as those by Britain&#39;s 4x100 metres relay team on Saturday.
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ATHENS, Greece - Paul Hamm thought his fantastic finish was too good to be true. Maybe he was right...
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By Mark Landler and John Markoff John Markoff reported from San Francisco. Steven Lee Myers contributed reporting from Moscow.
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CONCORD -- As an elementary school student in Ukraine, Yury Klimovitsky was considered, he recalls, a pudgy nonathlete who would never make the grade on the playing fields. But, through perseverance, he would fool them all, becoming a sprinter for that country's junior track-and-field team and later, from 1992 to 1997, head track coach for the Ukrainian Regional Olympic Training ...