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World championships fencing, Leipzig, Germany. France wins the world title with its women's epee team. It included Laura Flessel, from Guadeloupe, and Maureen...
Amsterdam Marathon, Netherlands: Kutre Dulecha (Eth)2h30'06. Dulecha is still the 1500m indoor world champion, but after an injury period, she came back and...
Daiane dos Santos from Brazil has won three world cup events this year, always on the floor exercise: in Sao Paolo, in Paris and in Stuttgart. She's very...
Castellano, Spain Isabella Ochichi (Ken) wins the first important cross country event of this year. She had to beat Eritrean Simret Sultan in the sprint....
Torri Edwards is finally reinstated after being banned for 15 months for no reason. The IAAF refused again to reinstate Kelli White. It's a public secret that...
Elizabeth Rumokol (Ken) wins the cross of Oeiras, Portugal. Meselech Melkamu withdrew. ... Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click....
Daiane dos Santos (Bra) has qualified for the individual floor final at the world championships gymnastics in Melbourne, Australia. She had the best score in...
Kenya wins the road relay race in Chiba, Kenya. The team counted 6 athletes, including Catherine Ndereba. ... Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites...
Cross country: Teyeba Erkesso (Eth) wins the cross d'acier in Dunkerque, France, ahead of Mestewat Tufa (Eth) and Isabella Ochichi (Ken). It's surprising that...
Lornah Kiplagat, now Dutch but born in Kenya, has won the European cross country championships. Kiplagat attacked in the final lap, to finish solo. Kiplagat...
Teyiba Erkesso (Eth) wins the cross country of Brussels, Belgium. Maryam Yusuf Jamal (Bahrain) made a strong comeback in the final lap, but Erkesso could hold...
1 Gelete Burika Bati (Eth) 2 Isabella Ochichi (Ken) 3 Tirunesh Dibaba (Eth) These three left the rest behind early in the race. Dibaba isn't inthe same shape...
These are the three women with two victories already in this cross season: Meselech Melkamu (Eth), Geleta Burika Bati (Eth) and Isabella Ochichi (Ken). Recent...
Sevilla cross: 1 Bezunesh Bekele (Eth) 2 Meselech Melkamu (Eth) It's Melkamu's first defeat of the season, so Bekele must be strong. Milano cross: Aheza Kiros...
Meseret Defar has the second and the third time ever on the 3000m. She complained that the early pace was too irregular. Dibaba also came close to her own...
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In Stuttgart, Germany, Meseret Defar came very close to the world record on the 3000m once again. She has the second, third and fourth time ever. The world...
Campbell has an important victory, because she was faster than Me'Lisa Barber, the fastest woman this year. 60m: 1 Veronica Campbell (Jam) 7.10 2 Me'Lisa...
60m: Christine Arron 7.16 After making a false start, Torri Edwards ran a good first half in the first race after her undeserved 15 months ban, to finish in...
Terry Madden, the president of the US "Anti"-Doping Association, told to Kelli White on May 17, 2006, that she would get a reduced sanction in exchange for a...
60m: 1 Me'Lisa Barber 7.06 2 Lauryn Wiliams 7.11 3 Torri Edwards 7.12 Very fast race. The problem is that Torri Edwards probably won't be allowed to run at the...