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American leaves nothing to chance, wins Olympic 400 gold medal
Tribune Olympic BureauLaShawn Merritt left nothing to chance. He broke down video of his Olympic semifinal race and video of everyone who was in the final Thursday night. He studied how Jamaica's Usain Bolt had run the straightaway of his world-record performance in the 200....Tags: 5K Run, Multi-Sport Events, Awards and Prizes, Allyson Felix
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In the men's 400 meters, LaShawn Merritt's a fast learner
Special to The TimesBEIJING -- LaShawn Merritt left nothing to chance. He broke down video of his 400-meter Olympic semifinal race and video of everyone who would be in the final Thursday night. He studied how Jamaica's Usain Bolt had run the straightaway of his world-record...Tags: 5K Run, Multi-Sport Events, Awards and Prizes, Allyson Felix
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What to watch at the Olympics Friday
Tribune Olympic BureauFriday's top events Track and field: Last chance to see Lightning Bolt. Insane Bolt. Usain Bolt. Just call him the world's fastest man. With his anchor leg in the sprint relay, Jamaica also is expected to have the world's fastest team. Basketball: Manu...Tags: 5K Run, San Antonio Spurs, Multi-Sport Events, Awards and Prizes
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Beijing Games: While you were sleeping
Tribune Olympic BureauOlympic mythology holds that wars are supposed to halt during the Games. (It never was true, not even in Ancient Greece, where wars stopped long enough merely to insure athletes safe passage to the Games.) But once athletes arrive at the Games, it is...Tags: Freestyle Wrestling, 5K Run, Swimming, Volleyball, Wrestling
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Butterfingers drop US men, women out of 400 relays
Associated PressClank. The American men dropped the baton. Ping. The American women did, too. Dang. This Olympic track meet is turning into a downright disaster for the Stars & Stripes. Darvis Patton and Tyson Gay misconnected on the final pass in preliminaries of the...Tags: 5K Run, Multi-Sport Events, Minority Groups, Awards and Prizes, Allyson Felix
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Heartbreak among relay teams as they botch baton passes
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBEIJING -- Torri Edwards' screeching expression said it all on a night of rain-soaked relay calamity on the Olympic track Thursday. Think about the famous Edvard Munch painting, "The Scream," and you get the general idea of back-to-back disasters...Tags: Disasters, 5K Run, Minority Groups, Edvard Munch
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Local athletes who have struck Olympic gold
Daily PressHere is at least a partial list of athletes who were born in Hampton Roads or living in Hampton Roads who have won Olympic gold medals: Track athlete LaShawn Merritt, who graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School and currently lives in Suffolk, won the...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Soccer, Schools, 5K Run, High Schools
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Faulty handoffs doom U.S.' 400 relays
The Associated PressTyson Gay reached back to grab the baton "and there was nothing." He's not the only American track favorite who will leave Beijing empty-handed. The American men's and women's 400-meter relay teams both misconnected on the final handoffs in their...Tags: 5K Run, Multi-Sport Events, David Oliver, Minority Groups, Awards and Prizes
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TODAY'S PICKS
JACKED (10 p.m., A&E) - Premiere: New reality series chronicling the activities of the Essex/Union Auto Theft Task Force, a police unit in Northern New Jersey that specializes in tracking down stolen vehicles and apprehending car thieves. OLYMPICS (8...Tags: 5K Run, Vehicles, Theft, Television, Television Industry
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Lightning Strikes Twice As Bolt Wins 200
Chicago TribuneBEIJING — To those who know track and field, to those who have watched Usain Bolt grow up, the most significant step he made did not occur in the last three months, when the Jamaican jumped from sprinting's elite into a class of his own. The key...Tags: 5K Run, Michael Johnson, Awards and Prizes
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Golden girls again
From wire reportsAmericans Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor won their second consecutive gold medal in beach volleyball, playing through a steady rain to beat Wang Jie and Tian Jia of China, 21-18, 21-18, today. Walsh and May-Treanor, who did not lose a set in Beijing,...Tags: 5K Run, Volleyball, Beach Volleyball, Surfing, Kobe Bryant
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In Beijing while you were sleeping: Chinese wrestler doesn't act like a host athlete
Tribune Olympic BureauOlympic mythology holds that wars are supposed to halt during the Games. (It never was true, not even in Ancient Greece, where wars stopped long enough merely to insure athletes' safe passage to the Games.) But once athletes arrive at the Games, it is...Tags: Freestyle Wrestling, 5K Run, Swimming, Volleyball, Wrestling
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