Athletics: Olympic Record For Bekele, Webb Eliminated From 1500 ...
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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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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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A month ago, Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia thought there was a decent chance she could contend for the world record in the women's 5,000-meter race at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games. But that confidence was eroded somewhat over the last couple of weeks because she had altered her training in hopes of qualifying for the World Cross Country Championships scheduled ...
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What a night for US athletes in Olympic track and field. Even in the event that went to another country, an American won. Shawn Crawford, Bernard Williams and Justin Gatlin swept the 200.
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MARK COLVIN: The fastest man and woman in Greek athletics are tonight out of the Olympics. Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou have both withdrawn from the Games after an International Olympic Committee disciplinary hearing on their failure to turn up for ...
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The mile run in the US Indoor Track &amp; Field Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center was not up to Alan Webb's speed yesterday.
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Names Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva were named male and female athletes of the year by the world track and field federation. Isinbayeva set eight world records in 2004, including one while winning the gold medal at the Olympics. Bekele won the 10,000 meters in Athens and finished second to Hicham El Guerrouj in ...
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ATHENS, Greece - Russia's Irina Korzhanenko was stripped of her shot put gold medal Monday, the first athlete of the Athens Games to lose an Olympic title because of doping.    Korzhanenko, 30, the first woman to win a gold medal at the sacred site of Ancient Olympia, tested positive for the steroid stanozolol after Wednesday's competition...
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Sloping off: Nathan Deakes walks with one foot off the ground after his disqualification from the men&#39;s 50km walk. Photo: AP Picture:MARK BAKER.
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ATHENS - Hicham El Guerrouj completed the first Olympic 1500-5000 double since Finn Paavo Nurmi 80 years ago on the penultimate day of the Athens Games on Saturday.
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Japan claimed gold in the women&#39;s marathon Sunday. Battling extreme heat and a difficult 42.195 kilometer course through historic Athens, Mizuki Noguchi passed the finish line in two hours, 26.
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Morocco&#39;s Hicham El Guerrouj, who won the 1500m earlier this week, completed a rare Olympic distance double Saturday night by outkicking Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia
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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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With his duties for country successfully completed, new Ethiopian star Kenenisa Bekele figured it was time to run for himself. Bekele ran a blistering final lap to win the men&#39;s 10,000 meters in an Olympic
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Gail Devers and LaShaunte&#39;a Moore will replace banned world champion Torri Edwards in the Olympic 100 and 200 metres races.
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Japan's Mizuki Nogushi won the first  Olympic marathon raced from the historic site in 108 years on  Sunday, but for Britain the race turned into heartbreak as its  top runner quit in tears.
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Andrei Rybakov of Belarus set a world record of 412 pounds in the menâs 187-pound snatch and won three gold medals yesterday at the world championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Rybakov, 25, beat his own world mark by 2.2 pounds to take the title for a second straight year.