Athletics: El Guerrouj wins historic double over Bekele
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ATHENS - Hicham El Guerrouj completed the first Olympic 1500-5000 double since Finn Paavo Nurmi 80 years ago on the penultimate day of the Athens Games on Saturday.
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ATHENS : Sheikh Ahmed Al-Maktoum&#39;s six-year quest for Olympic glory ended with a historic first ever gold for the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday after he clinched the men&#39;s double trap shooting event.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Meseret Defar set a world record in the women's 2-mile at the Van Damme Memorial meet Friday, smashing her own mark by almost 12 seconds.
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Ghana had one man sent-off but still moved a step closer to a record-equalling fifth African Nations Cup title with a thrilling 2-1 quarter-final success over Nigeria here on Sunday.
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In his apartment high in the Atlas Mountains, Hicham El Guerrouj has a fading film reel of Paavo Nurmi racing to victory in the 1500m and 5,000m in the Paris Olympics of 1924.
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Monte-Carlo - Olympic champions Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia and Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia have been announced as the 2004 Athletes of the Year on stage tonight at the climax to the spectacular 2004 World Athletics Gala at the Grimaldi Forum, Monte-Carlo
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Stephen Fleming, the record-breaking New Zealand captain, completed a brilliant double-century as the Blacks Caps claimed a stranglehold over Bangladesh in the second Test in Chittagong.
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Kelly Holmes proved that her double victory at the Olympic Games was no fluke in the World Athletics Final in the Stade Louis II in Monte Carlo with a turn of speed to win the 1500 metres that was even more impressive than in Athens last month.
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Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele succeeded his  mentor Haile Gebrselassie as the Olympic 10,000 meters champion  Friday after an astonishing final lap in the longest track  event.
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Morocco's double Olympic champion Hicham El Guerrouj plans to retire in 2006.
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Names Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva were named male and female athletes of the year by the world track and field federation. Isinbayeva set eight world records in 2004, including one while winning the gold medal at the Olympics. Bekele won the 10,000 meters in Athens and finished second to Hicham El Guerrouj in ...
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Hicham El Guerrouj became the first man in 80 years to win the 1,500 and 5,000 meters at one Olympics, holding up two fingers in triumph Saturday after outsprinting the world record holder down the final straightaway of the 5,000.
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Kenenisa Bekele wins a classic 10,000m encounter with the great Haile Gebrselassie back in 5th.
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Kenenisa Bekele eclipses Haile Gebrselassie's two-mile world record at the Norwich Union Grand Prix in Birmingham.
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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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Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj and  Britain's Kelly Holmes, living proof that self-belief can work  wonders, lit up the Olympic stadium to claim historic doubles  on a night of pure athletics gold.
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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.