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Track & Field Home Athletes Schedule Results Medals Radcliffe aims for third New York title
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By Larry Fine
NEW YORK, Oct 1 (Reuters) - World marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe will attempt for a second time this November to atone for an Olympic disappointment by winning the New York marathon.
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Track & Field Home Athletes Schedule Results Medals Gebrselassie smashes world marathon record
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By Kevin Fylan
BERLIN, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie shattered his own world marathon record on Sunday when he became the first man to run under two hours four minutes.
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LOS ANGELES (AP)—Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has bought the operating rights for the Los Angeles Marathon and will switch the race from Sunday to Monday next year.
McCourt’s newly formed company, Going the Distance, purchased the rights from Chicago-based Devine Racing Management. The City Council unanimously approved the transfer on Thursday.
Track & Field HomeAthletesScheduleResultsMedals Birhanu leads sweep by Ethiopian men in Philly
PHILADELPHIA (AP)—Yirefu Birhanu edged countryman Terefu Zwedie by 1 second to lead a 1-2-3 sweep by Ethiopian men at the Philadelphia Distance Run on Sunday.
Liliya Shobukhova of Russia beat six-time winner Catherine Ndereba of Kenya in the women’s race.
Birhanu broke away from the pack with about a half-mile to go, finishing the half-marathon in 1 hour, 1 minute, 22 seconds. Girma Tola was third in 1:01:26. The sweep by the Ethiopian men broke Kenya’s traditional hold on the top spot. McDonard Ondara was the top Kenyan finisher, placing fourth in 1:01.32.
“I didn’t expect to win,” said Birhanu, who had not raced since dropping out of the Boston Marathon with stomach problems.
Shobukhova finished in 1:10:21 to beat Ndereba by 10 seconds in the 13.1-mile race. The Russian competed in last month’s Olympic Games in Beijing, finishing sixth in the 5,000.
Ndereba finished second in the Olympic marathon.
“My legs were still a little tired from Beijing,” said Ndereba, who got five of her wins in the Philadelphia Distance Run from 1998 to 2002. “I’m still getting over it.”
An estimated 15,800 people ran in the race, which was held with temperatures in the 50s and a light wind.
SYDNEY, Australia (AP)—Kenya’s Julius Maritim won his fourth straight Sydney Marathon on Sunday, finishing five minutes ahead of countryman Benson Mbithi.
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Tennis HomeAthletesScheduleResultsNewsMedalsPhotos Tennis becomes Olympic marathon
By STEVEN WINE, AP Sports Writer
BEIJING (AP)—It was 1:15 a.m. at the Olympic Tennis Centre, and top-ranked Jelena Jankovic sprawled out across her changeover chair and closed her eyes to catch some rest.
That can be hard to do at an event that has become an Olympic marathon.
The mixture of rain, long matches and a heavy schedule has kept players— and hardy spectators—at the venue until the wee hours.
On Friday morning, a weary Jankovic settled into her courtside when rain started falling as she was about to begin warming up for a match. Fifteen minutes later, the tournament called it a night—or morning.
The Friday night session went even later, in part because all four center-court matches were three-setters.
A couple thousand fans stayed until 3:35 a.m. Saturday, their flag-waving chants drowning out the sound of crickets outside the stadium, as Yan Zi and Zheng Jie of China beat Svetlana Kuzn
Track & Field HomeAthletesScheduleResultsMedals 3 champions wants cross country back in Olympics
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP)—The IAAF is looking into a request by three African long-distance runners to bring cross country back to the Summer Olympics.
Ethiopians Kenenisa Bekele and Haile Gebrselassie and Kenya’s Paul Tergat made the request in a letter to the International Olympic Committee and the International Association of Athletics Federations.
Cross country was last contested at the 1924 Olympics.
“It would be wonderful to give the world’s best cross country runners the chance to compete in the greatest of all sporting festivals,” the three wrote.
The IOC has already referred the letter to the IAAF, since it is up to the international federation to ask for such a readmission.
An earlier attempt to bring cross country into the Winter Games has already been turned down.
“Now the question is whether we will seek entry into the Summer Games for cross country,” IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said Wednesday.
The IAAF considers cross country a key part of its winter racing program, so it is unclear under what conditions the event could find a spot in the already bloated summer program.
Bekele has won three Olympic long-distance golds on the track, along with six long-distance cross country titles. Tergat has five world cross country titles, while Haile Gebrselassie won two Olympic 10,000-meter titles and holds the world record in the marathon.
