It sounds like a Sylvester Stallone’s movie subject: an
unpretentious Italian guy, challenges the super-athlete “Mister
America” and … beats him.
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Nairobi, Kenya - Kenya has unveiled its most ambitious and
comprehensive Olympic Games preparation programme in history in order
to try to sustain the success of Osaka World Championships in Athletics
last year and match the performance of the Seoul...

By Dick Patrick, USA TODAY
Leonel Manzano received his initiation into
world-class running last summer. The 5-5, 125-pound senior at Texas was
about 30 meters into a first-round heat in the 1,500 meters at the
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Disgraced gold medal sprinter Tim Montgomery is blaming ex-girlfriend Marion Jones for encouraging him to jump into a bad-check scheme that leaves him facing nearly four years in a federal prison.

In papers filed Tuesday in Manhattan Federal Court,
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Eugene, Oregon--The current world recordholder and 2004 Olympic gold
medalist is from Ethiopia and will attempt to break the world record at
the Prefontaine Classic on Sunday morning, June 8th, at the 34th
Prefontaine Classic. Sound familiar? No, th...

The Jamaican had been sidelined with a chest injury but should now have plenty of time to recover for the Olympics.

The injury occurred during weight training and forced him to rest for a fortnight.
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Alison Wade, the very talented webmaster, photographer and now editor, is announcing a new cookbook that is now available. Wade organized and edited "The Runner's Cookbook: Winning Recipes from Some of the World's Best Athletes",
a compilation of 100 ...

Here at Running Times we have a lot of coverage of elite runners, their
lifestyle and training, their racing strategies and coverage of the
elite component of road races and track meets. The elite crowd is
selective, and by definition, limited in si...

The athletic-footwear market has been a
competitive and overcrowded one for years, with so many different
styles, colors and types of shoes on the market that shoppers can
sometimes be paralyzed by too many options. So, companies are always
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Paula Radcliffe is Britain's main hope of an athletics gold at the
Beijing Olympics but the 34-year-old accepts that for all her medals
and titles she still has to prove herself on the ultimate stage.
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