Former Mile Record Holder Gunder Hagg Dies
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Gunder Hagg, who set the mile world record in 1945 and held it until Roger Bannister broke the four-minute barrier, died at 85 after a long illness.
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MIAMI, Florida  - LPGA pioneer and record major   winner Patty Berg died on Sunday at the age of 88 after   battling Alzheimer's disease.
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RABAT, Morocco  - Double Olympic champion Hicham  El Guerrouj, the greatest middle distance runner of his  generation, plans to retire in 2006 after trying to break the  5,000 meters world record next year.
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Two-time Olympic decathlon gold   medalist Bob Mathias has passed away at the age of 75, the U.S.   Olympic Committee (USOC) said in a statement.
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MOROCCO&#39;s Hicham El Guerrouj completes an historic 1500-5000m double, emulating the achievement of Paavo Nurmi in 1924. BRITAIN&#39;s Kelly Holmes becomes only the third woman in Olympic history to complete the 800m-1500m double.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - George Etzweiler never ran a full mile until he was nearly 50. But he's been making up lost time ever since. The 87-year-old State College man completed a 7.6 mile, uphill run in New Hampshire this month called the Mount Washington Road Race.
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Wallace McIntosh, widely believed to be the British air force's most decorated gunner in World War II, has died at age 87, the Royal Air Force said.
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Peter Norman, the Australian sprinter who supported black US sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos in their silent protest for equal rights on the medals podium at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, died yesterday of a heart attack at his home in Melbourne, Australia. He was 64.
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LENNOX Miller, who won two Olympic 100-metre medals for Jamaica and was the father of top American female sprinter Inger Miller, died on Monday of cancer.
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Sir Edmund Hillary, who gained worldwide fame after he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, has died, according to New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark.
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Boston, MA (Sports Network) - Two-time Boston Marathon champion John Kelley died Wednesday night at the age of 97. Kelley, who is famous for running the race a record 61 times, died at a Cape Cod nursing home.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - George Habash, the founder of a radical movement that staged hijackings and kidnappings to highlight the Palestinian struggle, died in Jordan on Saturday, Palestinian officials said. He was 80.
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Former Nottingham Forest and Derby County manager Brian Clough dies aged 69.
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Former Australia all rounder Keith Miller has died aged 84, a family spokesman said on Monday. Miller, one of the leading players in Don Bradman&#39;s 1948 Ashes-winning
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INDIANAPOLIS, June 22 -- Bernard Lagat looked surprisingly fresh for a man who had already run a grueling mile before Friday night's 5,000 meter final at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
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Snowboarder Line Oestvold, who became the first Norwegian ever to win a World Cup event this past February, died Sunday after sustaining head and neck injuries in a fall during a training session in Chile.
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Former industrialist Lord Hanson, one of the biggest figures in corporate history, has died from cancer, the BBC reports. He was 82.