August 24th, 2008
The track and field events of the XXIX Olympiad concluded on Saturday. Here are the results:
The American women took the Gold Medal in the women’s 4×400m relay, with anchor Sanya Richards passing Russian, Anastasia Kapachinskaya in the final meters. The Russian women took the Silver Medal and the Jamaican team earned the Bronze. In addition […]
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August 23rd, 2008
The action continued at the Bird’s Nest in Beijing on Friday. Here are the results:
In the women’s 5000m event, Ethiopa’s Tirunesh Dibaba Kenene took the Gold Medal, her second of the Beijing Olympic Games. She was followed to the finish line by Elvan Abeylegesse of Turkey for the Silver Medal and Meseret Defar Tola of […]
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October 11th, 2006
Kenenisa Bekele is known for his ability to quickly accelerate at the end of a long distance race. Most of his wins were noted with him taking the final lap, from 100m to 400m, in record speed that can be synonymous to amazing raw showing of passion.
The Ethiopian distance runner have set a number of […]
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