Magical El Guerrouj clinches double gold
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ATHENS : Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco became the first male athlete since Paavo Nurmi in 1924 to pull off the Olympic Games 1500-5000 metres double here.
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ATHENSâHicham El Guerrouj became the first man in 80 years to sweep the 1,500 and 5,000 metres at an Olympics, holding up two fingers in triumph after winning the 5,000 yesterday in an all-out sprint down the final straightaway.
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During a nap, hours before his 5,000-meter final, Morocco&#39;s Hicham El Guerrouj had a grand dream. He wanted to make history and be like legendary countryman and distance runner Said Aouita.
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Hicham El Guerrouj finally won an Olympic gold on Tuesday to underline his status as the greatest 1,500 meters runner in history, but the Iraqi soccer team&#39;s fairytale run was halted one match from a strike at gold.
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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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UAE joins Olympics gold medal winners ABU DHABI, 18 Aug. 04 (WAM) -- A UAE paper said today that Sheikh Ahmed bin Hashar Al Maktoum&#39;s winning of the gold medal in double trap shooting had taken the UAE to the pinnacle of sporting glory at the Olympics.
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Justin Gatlin scorches to Olympic 100m gold ahead of Francis Obikwelu and Maurice Greene.
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ATHENS, Greece - Hicham El Guerrouj became the first man in 80 years to sweep the 1,500 and 5,000 meters at an Olympics, holding up two fingers in triumph after winning the 5,000 Saturday night in an all-out sprint down the final straightaway.
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SAITAMA, Japan  - Sharp-shooting Spain blasted   past Greece 70-47 to win their first world basketball   championship gold medal on Sunday.
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Bouncing back from mistakes Wednesday that would have cost a great team the gold medal on most days, the Americans finished with two of the most dazzling routines of the entire competition to clinch their second title at the world gymnastics championships.
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Morocco&#39;s Hicham El Guerrouj and Britain&#39;s Kelly Holmes both completed gold double at the penultimate day&#39;s competition of the 28th Olympic Games Saturday.
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After falling on the landing of his vault, Paul Hamm put on two of the most spectacular routines of his career to win Olympic gold, the first ever by a U.S. man.
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British athletes were not the only ones making history in the Olympic Stadium on the final day of competition. The keenest of track historians, Hicham El Guerrouj entered the record books as
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Bradley Wiggins claimed Great Britain&#39;s second cycling gold at the Athens Olympics with victory in the individual pursuit. Australian Brad McGee took the silver with Sergi Escobar of Spain in the bronze medal position.
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Sport: American takes 200m gold to become third man in history to win world championship sprint double.
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Bradley Wiggins has given Britain their second Olympic cycling gold medal in two days, winning the men&#39;s 4-km individual pursuit.
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Tyson Gay completed a sprint double in record time, winning a gold medal in the 200 meters at the world championships.