Xing wins gold as Radcliffe quits
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Xing Huina of China was the surprise winner of the Olympic women&#39;s 10,000 meters gold medal in Athens as Britain&#39;s Paula Radcliffe quit with nine of the 25 laps remaining.
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The 21-year-old Chinese claimed the gold medal of the showcase men&#39;s 110m hurdles before a capacity crowd of 70,000 at the Olympic Stadium in the 28th Olympic Games here on Friday.
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Jang Ji-Won won South Korea&#39;s first taekwondo gold medal at the Olympics by beating American Nia Abdallah 2-1 in the women&#39;s featherweight final.
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Yuliya Nesterenko of Belarus sped to an unexpected victory in the women&#39;s 100 meter final at the Athens Olympics Saturday. The high-striding Belarussian, the first woman
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China&#39;s Jia Zhanbo claimed the gold medal in the men&#39;s 50-metre rifle three-position target event at the Athens Olympics, after American Matthew Emmons was ruled to have fired at the wrong target on the verge of victory.
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Britain&#39;s Bradley Wiggins won the gold medal in men&#39;s individual pursuit Saturday, finishing the 4,000-meter final in 4:16.
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Britain&#39;s world record holder Paula Radcliffe won the women&#39;s New York marathon Sunday in an unofficial two hours 23 minutes seven seconds.
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Mizuki Noguchi kept the Olympic Games women's marathon title in Japan when she clinched gold here in a time of 2hrs 26min 20sec.
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American Justin Gatlin won the Olympic 100 metres Sunday night, and China, in a race almost as close, picked up four gold medals to edge ahead of the United States after nine days of competition at the Athens Olympics.
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Mizuki Noguchi of Japan Sunday claimed the women&#39;s marathon gold medal in a dramatic battle at the Olympic Games, reports Xinhua.
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There was more Olympics heartache for Paula Radcliffe when she pulled up in her second race in a week. The 30-year-old British runner dropped out of Friday&#39;s 10,000m with nine of the 25 laps left to go.
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NEW YORK: Britain&#39;s Paula Radcliffe, won the New York Marathon here, outlasting Kenya&#39;s Susan Chepkemei in the tightest women&#39;s duel in the race&#39;s 35-year history.
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Kelly Holmes won the women&#39;s 1,500 meters to become the third woman to win that race and the 800 meters at the same Olympics. The 34-year-old runner from the UK added the metric-mile gold medal in 3 minutes, 57.
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ATHENS: China won the first two gold medals in the Olympic badminton tournament yesterday, with world champion Zhang Ning beating Indonesian-born Dutchwoman Mia Audina 8-11, 11-6, 11-7 in the singles final.
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Maybe this will make up for her Olympic heartbreak. Britain's Paula Radcliffe surged ahead in the final feet Sunday to win the tightest New York City Marathon in history in 2 hours, 23 minutes, 10 seconds - less than three months after pulling out of the Athens Games just a few miles from the finish in a fit of tears.
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Ian Thorpe of Australia won the gold medal Monday in the 200-meter freestyle in an Olympic-record time of 1:44.71.
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Xie Xingfang defended her crown when she   beat world number two Zhang Ning to win an all-Chinese women's   singles final 21-16 21-14 at the world championships in Madrid   on Sunday.