Italian Wins Marathon... US Finishes Second
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Italian Stefano Baldini has won the men&#39;s marathon in a time of 2:10:54. Naturalized American Meb Keflezighi was a surprise runnerup with Brazil&#39;s Vanderlei Lima finishing third.
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NEW DELHI -- Kenya&#39;s Paul Kirui won the World half-marathon Sunday and China&#39;s Sun Ying Jie took the women&#39;s race. The 24-year-old Kirui finished in 1 hour, 2 minutes, 15 seconds, beating Tanzania&#39;s Fabiano Joseph by 16 seconds.
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The marathon obviously agrees with Evans Rutto. Rutto is 3-for-3 in the grueling 26.2-mile distance, winning his second straight Chicago Marathon in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 16 seconds on Sunday. It was the second-fastest marathon time in the world this year.
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Austria&#39;s Johann Grugger celebrates after winning the World Cup men&#39;s downhill race in Bormio, Italy, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004.
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Italy beat China to win gold in the men's team foil final on Saturday.
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Melania Grego&#39;s lob goal in the waning minutes of the second overtime gave Italy a 10-9 come-from-behind victory over Greece for the Olympic water polo gold medal.
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The United States swept the Olympic medals in the men&#39;s 400 meters Monday and Briton Kelly Holmes ended years of frustration to beat friend and foe Maria Mutola in the women&#39;s 800 meters.
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BORMIO, Italy -- One day, your showboating makes the coaches sputtering mad. Two days later, you win a second world title in a week for the US Ski Team.
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There was the Aussie leading the race. There was the American with the Aussie-themed daughter named Sydney hanging tough in second.
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Britain's world record holder Paula  Radcliffe won the women's New York marathon Sunday in an  unofficial two hours 23 minutes seven seconds.
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com. Perhaps the marathon isn&#39;t destined to be a lingering source of American frustration after all. By Don Emmert, AFP. In Athens, US marathoners came back with two medals.
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Yoko Shibui continued Japan&#39;s supremacy in the Berlin women&#39;s marathon and Felix Limo extended Kenya&#39;s dominance of the men&#39;s race Sunday.
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Maybe this will make up for her Olympic heartbreak. Britain's Paula Radcliffe surged ahead in the final feet Sunday to win the tightest New York City Marathon in history in 2 hours, 23 minutes, 10 seconds - less than three months after pulling out of the Athens Games just a few miles from the finish in a fit of tears.
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SANTA CATERINA VALFURVA, Italy -- Julia Mancuso gave the US ski team its second medal in two days at the world championships.
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The marathon produced a range of different emotions as the athletes battled with each other and the heat of Athens. Mizuki Noguchi of Japan took the Gold in 2 hours, 26 minutes, 20 seconds, followed by Ndereba of Kenya 49 seconds behind.
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Maybe this will make up for her Olympic heartbreak. Britain's Paula Radcliffe surged ahead in the final feet Sunday to win the tightest New York City Marathon in history in 2 hours, 23 minutes, 10 seconds -- less than three months after pulling out of the Athens Games just a few miles from the finish in a fit of tears.
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ATHENS : Stefano Baldini of Italy won a dramatic men&#39;s marathon at the Olympic Gamesafter long-time race leader Vanderlei de Lima of Brazil was attacked by a spectator in the latter stages of the race.