Italian Wins Bizarre Men's Marathon
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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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Italy's Massimiliano Blardone won a World Cup giant slalom yesterday in which Bode Miller squandered his first-run lead by catching his arm on a gate his second time down.
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Italy's Patrick Staudacher is the surprise winner of the super-G at the World Ski Championships in Sweden.
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ATHENS, Greece - Everyone knew the marathon was going to be tough, but having to dodge a would-be tackler in a kilt, green beret and matching knee-high socks wasn't an expected obstacle. It was definitely a bizarre way to end the Olympics...
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The first official track event took place this morning and Italy&#39;s Ivano Brugnetti won the men&#39;s 20km walk at the Summer Olympics in Athens.
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Hamish Carter of New Zealand wins the triathlon on Thursday in a time of 1 hour, 51 minutes, 7.73 seconds.
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Britain's world record holder Paula  Radcliffe won the women's New York marathon on Sunday in two  hours 23 minutes 10 seconds.
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Italy's former world champion Ivano  Brugnetti returned to the limelight to upstage favorite  Jefferson Perez and win the Olympic men's 20km race walk on  Friday.
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Kenyan Evans Rutto won his second consecutive Chicago marathon Sunday although a stiff breeze scuppered his world record bid on the flat course.
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ATHENS - No one ever doubted the ability of Italy&#39;s Stefano Baldini, who triumphed in the Olympic Games men&#39;s marathon on Sunday, but he too often seemed to come up short.
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Italian Stefano Baldini won the Olympic men&#39;s marathon overnight after a spectator dashed on to the course late in the race and bundled the then leader Vanderlei de Lima into the crowd.
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Tamrat Ayalew beats two-time winner Ruben Garcia by two minutes to win the Marine Corps Marathon in 2 hours 22 minutes 18 seconds.
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Evans Rutto of Kenya won his second straight Chicago Marathon on Sunday, finishing in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 16 seconds, and making him 3-for-3 at the 26.2-mile distance.
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Julius Sugut, a lanky Kenyan farmer known as the "nearly man" after finishing runner-up in several marathons over the past two seasons, finally won in the Bombay International Marathon.
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Stafano 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 the race leader with about three miles to go.
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ATHENS -- In a bizarre and stunning conclusion to the Olympic Games, the leader of the men's marathon was grabbed by a former Irish priest and pushed into the crowd about three miles from the finish. After a police officer helped free the runner, Vanderlei de Lima, the shocked Brazilian hustled back into the race after losing several seconds off ...
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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.