Marathon elite face a 35-year course record in Athens race
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Runners who finish Sunday&#39;s Olympic marathon will be watched over by a 63-year-old white-haired Englishman who established the still-unbroken course record 35 years ago.
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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Choking pollution and sapping heat will be the major concerns for the world's elite marathon runners at this year's Beijing Olympics.
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ATHENS, Greece - Stefano Baldini of Italy took the lead two miles from the finish to win the gold medal and American Meb Keflezighi took a stunning silver Sunday in an Olympic marathon disrupted by a costumed intruder who grabbed race leader Vanderlei Lima of Brazil with about three miles to go.    Lima, whose lead had been slowly shrinking, was pushed to the curb by a man dressed in green beret, red kilt and knee-high green socks...
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ATHENS, Greece - The preliminaries in the 100 meters were perhaps just a sample of what's to come Sunday, when a talented group of qualifiers - including Americans Shawn Crawford, Justin Gatlin and defending champion Maurice Greene - will try to turn their competition into the fastest show at the Athens Games.    Five men broke 10 seconds in qualifying Saturday, led by Crawford's time of 9.89...
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Athens -- When Deena Kastor rode the bus to the start of Sunday&#39;s women&#39;s Olympic marathon race, she was jolted by the reality of the time and the place.
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The marathon produced a range of different emotions as the athletes battled with each other and the heat of Athens. Mizuki Noguchi of Japan took the Gold in 2 hours, 26 minutes, 20 seconds, followed by Ndereba of Kenya 49 seconds behind.
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Former European champion Stefano Baldini of Italy overtook Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima 1.2 miles from the finish to win the Olympic men&#39;s marathon on Sunday.
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ATHENS, Greece - Japanâs Mizuki Noguchi held off Kenyaâs Catherine Ndereba to win the womenâs marathon gold medal Sunday on the legendary ancient course that gave the race its name.
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Catherine Ndereba and Timothy Cherigat of Kenya will return to Boston to defend their titles in the 109th running of the Boston Marathon April 18, to be joined by one of the top United States marathoners, Olympian Alan Culpepper of Lafayette, Colo.
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ATHENS -- In a historic 5,000-meter race, Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco, who won gold at 1,500 meters last week, outkicked Ken enisa Bekele of Ethiopia in the final straightaway to record the first such double victory since the great Paavo Nurmi of Finland, El Guerrouj's hero, accomplished the feat 80 years ago at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
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Kenya's Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot will have plenty of top-shelf company when he defends his title in the 111th running of the Boston Marathon April 16. Besides 2005 victor Hailu Negussie , the first Ethiopian to win in 16 years, the elite men's field includes last year's runner-up Benjamin Maiyo , 2004 runner-up Robert Cheboror , New York runner-up Stephen Kiogora, ...
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A series of unusually quick times in the men&#39;s 100 metres heats have sparked expectations of a possible world record in Sunday&#39;s Olympic final.
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Ronaldo da Costa, who was celebrated nine years ago for one of the most surprising performances in marathon history, is hopeful that his distance running career is not entirely over.
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Michael Phelps will not now feature in the final race of the Olympic swimming competition on Saturday but he could still get a record eighth medal at the Athens Games.
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When the first Marine Corps Marathon took place, in 1976, the oldest runner to finish the 26.2-mile race was 58 years old. On the race's 30th anniversary last year, the oldest finisher was 82 -- one individual's testament to how Americans are aging differently than they used to.
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IT IS impossible to achieve greatness in sport without being measured against history. On Saturday, the last night of athletics in the 2004 Olympics, a man and a woman, a king and a queen of the track, ran into history.
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Jelena Prokopcuka of Latvia, who won the womenâs race at the New York City Marathon the past two years, and Marilson Gomes dos Santos of Brazil, the menâs upset winner last year, will compete in this yearâs marathon, which is Nov. 4. Last yearâs wheelchair champions, Kurt Fearnley of Australia and Amanda McGrory of Champaign, Ill., will also return. The 30-year-old Prokopcuka could become the second woman to win the race three consecutive years. Grete Waitz of Norway won from 1978 to 1980 and 1982 to 1986. A victory would probably assure Prokopcuka, who was second in the Boston Marathon in April, of the $500,000 first prize in the World Marathon Majorsâ first two-year series.