Athletics: For Greeks, hurdles offer redemption after heroes&#39; fall
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ATHENS In her semifinal, Fani Halkia had run the fastest women&#39;s 400-meter hurdles in Olympic history. After the final on Wednesday night she ran what might have been the slowest victory lap.
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ATHENS - After a disastrous landing on the vault that nearly sent him crashing into the judges&#39; laps, Paul Hamm thought his night was over.
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HOST nation Greece grabbed its first gold medal of the Athens Olympics this morning when Nikolaos Siranidis and Thomas Bimis won the men&#39;s three-metre synchronised diving after China&#39;s favourites suffered a no-dive.
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The biggest applause at Olympic Stadium yesterday, the first day of athletics competition, didnât come for Greek heptathlete Aryiro Strataki or triple jumper Hristos Meletoglou
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ATHENS, Greece - Gail Devers, the most talented yet star-crossed hurdler of her generation, failed once again in the Olympics as she was struck by injury before the first hurdle. Devers, 37, who has three world championships in the 100-meter hurdles, pulled up short and screamed as she slid under the first hurdle...
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ATHENS, Greece -- American Allen Johnson, a four-time world champion and a former Olympic gold medalist, made a shocking exit from the second round of the 110-meter hurdles.
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ATHENS - Host nation Greece, already embarrassed by two sprinters who dropped out of the Games after missing a drug test, received another black eye when bronze-winning weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis tested positive for excessive ...
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Two of Greeks most adored athletes have pulled themselves out of their host country&#39;s Olympics. Sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou missed an International Olympic Committee mandatory drug test last week. Thanou and Kenteris were then involved ...
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THE world sighed with relief when Greeks kept their promise to deliver some of the world&#39;s finest sport venues in time for the Athens Olympics.
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James Carter of Baltimore finished fourth in the finals of the 400-meter hurdles today, missing out on a medal. Felix Sanchez, of the Dominican Republic, won the gold medal.
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Athens -- The venues didn&#39;t fall down. The terrorists were kept at bay. The US Olympians waved the flag anyway, and nobody got hurt.
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Fani Halkia, hailed by one Greek tabloid as a &quot;Winged Goddess,&quot; stormed to Olympic victory in the 400 meter hurdles, sparking nationwide jubilation and much probing of her startlingly improved form.
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ATHENS, Greece - Gail Devers failed once again in the Olympic 100-meter hurdles, falling to injury just steps into her first race. Devers, 37, who has three world championships in the event, pulled up short and screamed as she slid under the first hurdle Sunday...
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ATHENS, Greece  Their own country has a hard time celebrating a silver medal. If it isn&#39;t gold, it&#39;s symbolic of second place or third place, and that&#39;s just not the American way when it comes to the Olympic Games.
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ATHENS -- A year ago in Anaheim, Calif., they were out of uniform and on crutches, their world meet over before it began, their careers in doubt. Annia Hatch had dislocated her left knee and torn her anterior cruciate ligament. Courtney Kupets had ruptured her left Achilles' tendon. Last night, they were both on the Olympic medal stand with medals ...
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Two months after a judging error overshadowed one of the most stunning comebacks in Olympic history, Paul Hamm is no longer stuck in limbo.
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Fani Halkia hurtled from virtual  obscurity to become Olympic women's 400 meters hurdles champion  on Wednesday, giving Greece a new sports diva to hail but  sparking a barrage of questions over her rise to prominence.