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However, the squads split games two and three to set up the marathon fourth game, that Harvard finally took with consecutive points to extend its winning streak to three games...
...Crimson’s only opportunity to race Cal would have been in the IRA National Championship regatta, where the Harvard and Radcliffe lightweights race every year. However, the heavyweights’ tradition of training extensively for the Harvard-Yale regatta—a marathon course of four miles for the varsity boats—has prevented the Crimson from competing in IRAs, as the regattas fall into the same time frame...
...titles. After leading the 10,000-m races from the gun at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and at the World Championships in Edmonton last year, she was overtaken in the home straight to take fourth in each. The British runner was, though, successful off the track - winning world half-marathon and cross-country titles for the past two years. This year her track results changed. Radcliffe won gold in 5,000 m at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester last July, and followed that a little over a week later at the European championships in Munich by setting a new European...
...Bend National Park, near Marathon, Texas...
...Emperor Hadrian discovered on the site of the Olympic Village. After delays caused by negotiations with the department of antiquities, Olympic officials decided to include the ancient ruins as part of the village's design. Want to build a sailing center on the site of the Battle of Marathon? Not so fast. First you have to take apart three 4,500-year-old homes - and move them 50 yards. Want to widen the road from Marathon to Athens? Citizens went to court to save ancient trees along the route. "It's our way of democracy," says Panos K. Protopsaltis, ATHOC...