Baldini triumph eclipsed by De Lima attack
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Britain&#39;s Jon Brown nearly found himself benefiting from the attack on Brazil&#39;s Vanderlei de Lima but had to instead settle for finishing fourth for the second consecutive Olympic games last night.
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In the same way that once-belittled Greece has shocked the world by putting on an efficient and successful Olympics, so did Fani Halkia emerge from the shadows Wednesday with a stunning triumph for the host nation.
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Italy&#39;s Stefano Baldini surged ahead with two miles to go and won the Olympic marathon Sunday while American Meb Keflezighi finished a surprising second in a
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Finland&#39;s Tanja Poutiainen won for the second time in three races at Aspen Mountain, beating Italy&#39;s Manuela Moelgg by more than a second in a World Cup slalom on Sunday.
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TORINO - La torcia olimpica arriverÃ  a Roma tra un anno, il 7 dicembre 2005 e sarÃ  accesa pochi giorni prima in Grecia, nel tempio di Hera a Olimpia. Il primo dei 10 mila tedofori sarÃ  Stefano Baldini, medaglia d&#39;oro della maratona ad Atene 2004.
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Italian Ivano Brugnetti strode to  victory in the first athletics final of the Athens Olympics on  Friday with a commanding performance in the men's 20km walk.
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Sport: Tour de France: Colombian Juan Mauricio Soler wins stage nine on a brutal day in the Alps.
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In a classic duel on high seas, the challenger from New Zealand prevailed in a race with eight lead changes Tuesday to beat defending champion Alinghi and pull ahead 2-1 in the America's Cup.
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Ian Poulter of England brought his 2004 season to a spectacular climax when, just five weeks after his Ryder Cup debut, he beat Spain&#39;s Sergio Garcia at the first hole of the sudden-death play-off to capture the Volvo Masters Andalucia at Club de Golf
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Goals from Djibril Cisse and Milan Baros secured a 2-0 victory over last year&#39;s beaten finalists Monaco in a Group A game. Monaco looked a shadow of the side that made it all the way to the rinal last May, but
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A tough derby battle left Atalanta bottom of the table and still without a win. Brescia came closest to a breakthrough with a claim for a penalty when Andrea Caracciolo was brought down inside the area and
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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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Ian Poulter won for the first time since last year&#39;s Nordic Open, when he parred the first extra hole at the Volvo Masters Andalucia to edge out local hero, Sergio Garcia.
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Just less than one month after steering his country to their first Olympic soccer gold medal. Bielsa, 49, had weathered Argentina&#39;s shock first-round elimination at the 2002 World Cup followed by almost two
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ATHENS -- Some guys learn from their mistakes. Andre Dirrell didn't. America's middleweight medal hopeful followed the same pattern against Gennady Golovkin yesterday that he fell into during his quarterfinal victory over Cuba's Yordani Despaigne two days ago but this time he paid a more costly price than he had two days earlier, when he escaped with a 12-11 victory ...
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The race to reach the UEFA Cup last 32 was overshadowed by the death of a French fan who died from gunshot wounds after a clash with police in Paris.
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A GOAL from Fiorentina striker Fabrizio Miccoli gave a rookie Italian side victory over Finland. Coach Marcello Lippi fielded only a handful of the players who have helped his side to the top of Scotland&#39;s World Cup qualifying group.