Cool Running Webwatch:-
*********************************************
Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin justified his new status with a
comfortable victory in Yokohama, Japan.
The American clocked ........

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/3679794.stm

http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=27531.html

*********************************************
Kelly Holmes has won the International Association of Athletics Federations
award for the best women's performance in the world this year.
Her gutsy victory in the Olympics .........

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/3671404.stm

*********************************************
Paula Radcliffe has revealed the extent of the pressures and injuries that
led to her Olympic marathon misery.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/3657890.stm

*********************************************
Sauvage geared for a golden finale
By Jessica Halloran

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/23/1095651474714.html?oneclick=true

http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/23/1095651466536.html

http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1264&storyid=1982010

*********************************************
Nigel Aylott - Nigel Aylott died doing exactly what he wanted to do:
scrambling down a remote gully, in the leading team in a 650-kilometre
adventure race in Washington state..

News stories on the accident can be found at
http://www.checkpointzero.com

Many moving tributes from around the world at
http://www.sleepmonsters.com.au/forum.php

--------------------------

We're not crazy risk-takers, say adventure racers.

Nigel Aylott died doing exactly what he wanted to do: scrambling down a
remote gully, in the leading team in a 650-kilometre adventure race in
Washington state.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/23/1095651474622.html

*********************************************

By Jordan Baker
September 24, 2004
ATHENS: Australia remained in third place on the Paralympic medal tally at
the end of day six after winning two gold medals in the pool and another on
the track.

http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1264&storyid=1984744

*********************************************

As we continue to build-up to the 13th IAAF World Half Marathon
Championships in New Delhi on Sunday 3 October 2004, an event which marks
an historic step on Athletics' path of increasing universality we offer our
second vignette, on this occasion about the Half Marathon course and the
history of the city which hosts it.

http://www.iaaf.org/WHM04/news/Kind=2/newsId=27527.html

*********************************************

Yoko Shibui could very well be the star attraction of Sunday's Real -
Berlin Marathon (26 Sep).

The 25 year-old Japanese marathon runner, who has a personal best of
2:21:22 from 2002, has indicated that she wants to become the second
Japanese runner in history to dip under the 2:20 marathon barrier.

http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=27538.html

*********************************************


Regards

Doug Fry





*********************************************

Visit http://www.webathletics.com.au
for ACT Cross Country Club, ACT Veterans Athletic Club, The Runners Shop,
Lunch Time Running

Visit http://www.coolrunning.com.au
and:- http://www.coolrunning.co.nz

dfry@...
Doug.Fry@...
frydoug@...
frydoug@...
Doug.Fry@...

(02) 6288 6439(h)


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]