Marathon winners get bump in prize money
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Winners of April's Boston Marathon will go home a little richer this year, as chief sponsor John Hancock Financial Services yesterday announced an increase in prize money.
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Organizers of the world marathon majors are considering launching a season-ending race that would bring together all the top marathoners for an annual big-money showdown.
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Congressional candidates spent a record &#36;911.8 million in last year's races, and several 2006 contests are already showing signs they will carry big price tags.
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Blog: Small donors are having a significant impact on the amount of money that the Republican and Democratic candidates for president are raising.
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Italian Stefano Baldini won the Olympic men&#39;s marathon overnight after a spectator dashed on to the course late in the race and bundled the then leader Vanderlei de Lima into the crowd.
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Midway through the race between Olympics past and present, this year's edition is outrunning its predecessor from four years ago.
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Athens -- When Deena Kastor rode the bus to the start of Sunday&#39;s women&#39;s Olympic marathon race, she was jolted by the reality of the time and the place.
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The racetrack and casino operator reports another record result.
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HereÃ¢ÂÂs how fast the money chase has accelerated in the still-early contest for the 2008 presidential nominations: The amounts raised individually between April and June by each of the two leading aspirants for the Democratic nomination appear likely to match or exceed the totals raised in the parallel period by the top five contenders for the partyÃ¢ÂÂs 2004 nod Ã¢ÂÂ combined.
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The world's top athletes are paid to peddle Nike gear.
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ATHENS, Greece -- I could see Vanderlei de Lima of Brazil running almost straight toward me. The 5-5, 119-pound marathon competitor had started with the rest of the men in the hill town of Marathon, the place where it all began 2,494 years ago.
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Chinese fans got their yuan&#39;s worth Thursday in Beijing when the rain-soaked schedule forced some of the top seeds to double-up on the day.
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ATHENS - The spectacle and drama of the Olympics enthralled billions. Television paid handsomely to show it and sponsors spent fortunes to bathe in its reflected glory.
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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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Having to run the most important race of your career in the heat and humidity of Beijing in August is the idea of hell for many marathon runners.
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Special lottery games have already raised Â£150m for the 2012 London Olympics, organisers have said.
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You do the math. With the first, third and fourth place finishers in the 100-meter dash joining forces on one 4x100 relay team, doesn&#39;t it figure that they should beat the competition?