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...accept the gold with a time of 2:26:20. Even earlier, 16 competitors, including British world-record holder Paula Radcliffe, had left the historic town of Marathon, only to abandon the race because of the brutal hills and 35?C heat. (A few days later, Radcliffe would also fail to finish the 10,000 m, a meltdown the British press thought worthy of a Greek tragedy...
...overall tally (on Saturday night it had 83 medals), but it lagged in golds, with just 23 through Saturday, nine fewer than in Sydney. Athens looks likely to be the first Games since Helsinki in 1952, when the USSR first competed at the Summer Olympics, that Russia will fail to come first or second in the gold medal table in a non-boycotted Games. Some of the decline can be attributed to the end of the Soviet-era sports system, which poured almost unlimited finances - not to mention drugs - into athletics in Eastern Europe. By contrast, Australia grabbed 17 golds...
Only an idiot would spend $1,500 for a purse. I fail to see the appeal of these products. They are not attractive, practical or economical. The only selling point is that expensive designer bags are covered with the maker's logo. But that just serves to declare to the world that the owner has no self-confidence and no sense of aesthetics or economics. DEBBIE FIELDS Las Vegas
...will—and here their thoughts are correct—inevitably foul up the most golden of opportunities, so why bother? Let’s just hope “the Evil Empire” doesn’t win, the logic goes. And, without fail, the Yankees do succeed and best the Red Sox. One can only imagine what would happen if the tables were somehow turned. After all, the Red Sox fans have come to depend on losing, to secretly love it. What would they do without...
...straight male who has been married for 18 years to the same woman and, with her, is raising three children, I fail to see how allowing gay marriage would degrade, in any way, my marriage. Considering what gays have to go through to get married, most gay couples who want to marry are probably less likely than straight couples to get divorced, since 50% of straight marriages fail. MARK J. OLBERDING Nevada, Iowa