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...world best for the marathon. She has had success not just in road races and cross-country but on the track too--a far harder arena in which to excel. If she has a little bit of luck in Athens this August, she will add an Olympic gold medal to her collections. But I don't think I'd be breaching confidences if I said that three years ago, many of us never envisioned her winning an Olympic title. She has pleasantly surprised everybody...
...have to believe that there is something they can do in the coming season. It's when they can't visualize themselves running any more quickly that they give up. Radcliffe hasn't reached anywhere near that point yet. --BY SEBASTIAN COE, two-time 1,500-m Olympic gold-medal winner...
...under her chin, shoots her disapproving looks - but she is still giddy from her second international race in an eight-month career as an athlete. Muqimyar's best time, nearly four seconds slower than U.S. star Marion Jones' 10.75 at the Sydney Olympics, won't win her country any medals at Athens, but simply stepping into the starting blocks is a triumph for a nation scarred by two and a half decades of war, and where many religious conservatives still object to women stepping outside of the home. "It is not Robina's results that matter," says Stig Traavik...
After falling in the national championship to Minnesota, Ruggiero and Chu left to go to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where they represented Team USA at the International Ice Hockey Federeation’s (IIHF) World Championships. The U.S. was awarded the silver medal after falling 2-0 to Canada in the gold-medal game...
...gold-medal game drew mixed emotions from members of the Harvard women’s hockey team, especially the Canadians, given the conflict between loyalty to country and loyalty to teammates Angela Ruggiero and Julie Chu and former teammate Botterill...