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Athletics has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics.
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S. to fine-tune his Olympic hopes but one of them will be hoping to strike a psychological blow when they meet on Saturday.Just how well Ethiopian Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele and Oregon-trained British world gold medalist Mo Farah have progressed in their preparations will be gauged over 5,000 meters at this weekend's Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting."Kenenisa is getting better by the week, so the race should be very competitive," Bekele's manager Jos Hermens told Reuters."He needs races to get in shape, so if it will be a good fast race, it will be a good effort for him."The Ethiopian world record holder stormed to Olympic titles in both the 5,000 and 10,000 meters at the 2008 Beijing Games before a 2010 calf injury kept him off the track for more than a year.The Somalian-born Farah, meanwhile, has become the world's top r...The home Jose Nazare Braga built in the Rocinha shantytown is his life's work, an investment that grew from a shack to a three-story building over 30 years. A restau...
Tom Boonen, the season's top one-day racer, has decided to skip the Tour de France to focus on Olympic gold in London instead.The winner of Paris-Roubaix and the Tou...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - World marathon record holder Patrick Makau, who was omitted from Kenya's Olympic team, did not run hard during last month's London race because h...
Marathoner Paula Radcliffe has been selected to compete for Great Britain at the 2012 London Olympics , where she will resume the pursuit of her first Olympic medal....
By Larry FineNEW YORK (Reuters) - Women sprinters took center stage at the New York Diamond League meeting on Saturday when twice Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-...
By Gene CherrySALVO, North Carolina (Reuters) - The workload will be a little lighter when Usain Bolt goes for double gold at this year's world championships and the...
Six days and a slow start later, Usain Bolt finally won gold at the world championships, running the fourth-fastest 200 meters in history to back up his showmanship ...
Former Olympic sprinter Frank Fredericks of Namibia and former badminton world champion Li Lingwei of China have been nominated as members of the International Olymp...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Former athletes have criticized Kenya's plans to select part of the east African country's team for this year's Olympics at races in the United S...
Injury free and in good shape, Olympic favorite David Rudisha looks ready to dominate the 800 meters in 2012 and clinch the one major title missing from his impressi...
Shalane Flanagan won the U.S. Olympic trials women's marathon Saturday, while Desiree Davila and Kara Goucher also qualified for this summer's games in London.Flanag...
For two decades, Haile Gebrselassie enchanted fans of running with his mastery of the art.Because he is such a rare athlete, because of his infectious joie de vivre ...
Wilson Kiprop surged to the lead with 50 meters to go and won the Kenyan Olympic 10,000 meters trials in the year's fastest time at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond L...
Wilson Kiprop never imagined he would be Kenya's leading 10,000 meters medal hope at the London Games but on a drizzly Friday night in Oregon, the 2010 African champ...
Former 10,000 meters world record holder Haile Gebrselassie failed to qualify for the London Olympics after finishing seventh at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games in Hen...
Former 10,000 meters world record holder Haile Gebrselassie failed to qualify for the London Olympics after finishing seventh at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games in Hen...
Wednesday marks 100 days until the London Olympics, making it a good time to look at some of the athletes who will be thrilling sports fans on the biggest of stages ...
Wednesday marks 100 days until the London Olympics, making it a good time to look at some of the athletes who will be thrilling sports fans on the biggest of stages ...
Now that they've made peace with their international partners on the financial front, leaders at the U.S. Olympic Committee must decide whether to try to bring an up...
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