Berlin awarded 2009 world track championships
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After bidding for the world track and field championships two times before, the German capital was finally named host of IAAF even in 2009.
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German veterans Sven Fischer and Uschi Disl won the men's and women's pursuit events at a biathlon World Cup event on Saturday.
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The new head of Berlin&#39;s local rail system admits he used to be a fair-dodger but stopped riding local trains and busses without a ticket more than seven years ago.
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Bernard Lagat may set a record for earliest announcement of meet participation, agreeing to return to the 2009 Millrose Games shortly after winning the 2008 mile.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (Sports Network) - Olympic medalists Justin  Gatlin and Joanna Hayes Monday were named the winners of the  2004 Jesse Owens Awards by USA Track & Field.
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The worldâs second-most important track and field event could not fill a stadium with only 36,000 available seats in an affluent area of nearly 9 million people that has excellent public transportation.
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Italy&#39;s Ivano Brugnetti has won the Olympic gold medal in the men&#39;s 20-kilometer race walk. In the first gold medal to be decided in the seventh day of the Athens games, Brugnetti covered the distance in a winning time of 1:19:40 hours.
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Ohno takes gold: Seattle&#39;s Apolo Anton Ohno and China&#39;s Yang (A) Yang won 1,500-meter short-track races last night in Madison, Wis.
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NEW YORK - Germany's Thomas Dold, 22, won the Empire State Building Run-up on Tuesday for the second year in a row. Suzy Walsham, 33, of Singapore, won the women's competition.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland - The International Olympic Committee said Monday it has received bids from London, Madrid, Moscow, New York and Paris to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
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Allyson Felix got her triple gold. U.S. teammate Bernard Lagat got a double for doing something no one had ever done at the track and field world championships.
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Sport: New Delhi is set to host a grand prix in 2009 after a preliminary deal was agreed with Bernie Ecclestone.
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The last long-course world swimming  record held by now discredited Communist East Germany was  finally consigned to history by an American quartet at the  Olympics on Wednesday.
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New Zealand&#39;s cyclist Sarah Ulmer regained her world record in the qualifying of women&#39;s individual pursuit event while British cyclist Bradley Wiggins and the German team took the gold medals produced in the Olympic Velodrom on Saturday.
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PAULA Radcliffe is considering going for the 10,000 metres gold medal in the World Championships in Helsinki next summer. Max Jones, UK Athleticsâ performance director, believes Radcliffe is eager to prove herself as a global track champion.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Olympia, home of the Olympics for more than 12 centuries, hosted a track and field event for the first time in 1,611 years when the shot-putters of the Athens Games arrived at Greece&#39;s most sacred sporting site.
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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.