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...blonds to win the first-ever Olympic women's pole vault; as Romanian Gabriela Szabo held off Irishwoman Sonia O'Sullivan four times in the stretch to win a thrilling 5,000-m race by a quarter of a second; and as Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie nipped Kenyan Paul Tergat at the wire in an even more exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Field Of Dreams | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...night, our Michael Johnson won the 400 meters again, becoming the first person ever to win that event in back-to-back Olympics. Later in the night, Ethiopia's equally great Haile Gebrselassie won the most exciting 10,000-m run anyone's ever seen, nipping Kenya's Paul Tergat right at the wire. But neither of those races were what people went home remembering. They went home remembering Cathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrap-up: Letter from Sydney | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...four circuits of the five loop, 12.1-km course, running in a leading group of five that included three Kenyans. But at the start of the final loop he caught a spike on a log barrier and stumbled into the man beside him, defending champion Paul Tergat of Kenya. Tergat recovered and accelerated into the lead, but Gebrselassie seemedto lose heart, trotting home fifth, 44 sec. behnd Tergat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OLYMPIC MONITOR | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

Does the defeat dim his Olympic prospects? Only slightly. The Kenyans, who held four of the world records Gebrselassie broke, know what they're up against. "On the track he is tough," said Tergat. "He is the man to beat in Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OLYMPIC MONITOR | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

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