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News From: Saturday, July 5, 2008
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Kenya Beijing squad announced as trials conclude in Nairobi (IAAF) Athletics Kenya released the final list of thirty-seven athletes who will compete in the Beijing Summer Olympics. The Marathon team will be led by Martin Lel, Robert Cheruiyot and Sammy Wanjiru. World champion Catherine Ndereba, Martha Komu and Selina Kosgei compose the women's team.
News From: Wednesday, October 27, 2004
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Marathon priest denies indecency with child (Ireland Online) Father Neil Horan, who disrupted the Olympic Marathon this past summer by pushing the lead runner off the course, has been charged with gross indecency with a seven-year-old child in 1991.
News From: Wednesday, December 25, 2002
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Mark McGarity Always Goes the Extra Mile in Attempting Olympic Marathon Qualification (Naples Daily News) His attempt to qualify for the Olympic Marathon has proved to Mark McGarity that running can change your life. McGrarity, famous to Naples for his motivation to create young runners by hosting a summer camp, moved to Boulder, Colorado to train for his big goal. Although he ended up shy of qualifying for the race, he is just as motivated as ever to help his home town kids from Lely High School achieve running excellence.
News From: Thursday, October 12, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		It's got legs, this thin blue line we've learnt to love (Sydney Morning Herald) The thin blue line that marks the Olympic Marathon route travels 42.2 km through Sydney. Now that the games are over, the debate remains, what to do with this symbol of the 2000 games.
News From: Monday, October 2, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Illness slowed Wisconsin Olympic marathon runner (St. Paul Pioneer Planet) American Rod DeHaven, the only U.S. runner in the men's Olympic marathon, finished a disappointing 69th place after illness slowed him, forcing him at least once to use a port-o-let along the course. Sidney was his first and, he says now, final Olympics.
News From: Saturday, September 30, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Ethiopian Abera legs out mens marathon gold (MSNBC.COM) After 32 years, the gold medal in the Olympic mens marathon belongs again to Ethiopia, thanks to a 22-year-old runner from the countrys south highlands, birthplace of most of the countrys great runners.
News From: Friday, September 29, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Analysis of Men's Olympic Marathon (Runners World) Expert looks at prospects of Olympic marathon
		After fast women's race, men reconsider marathon prospects (Sporting News) Runners in the men's marathon examined the ups and downs of the Olympic course and decided there was no way that the times would be all that great. Then the women shattered the Olympic record last week. That gave the men a tough act to follow on Sunday, when the 26.2-mile race is run from North Sydney to Olympic Stadium. It ends just before the start of the closing ceremony.
News From: Thursday, September 28, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Humor
		Notes from Australia: Marathon has long, dramatic history (Seattle Post Intelligencer) A look at the more unique moments in Olympic marathon history, including some unforgettable, though regrettable, finishes.
News From: Monday, September 18, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		French marathoner has appendix removed, still hopes to run (Fox Sports) Abdellah Behar, a native of Morocco who runs for France, had appendix surgery on Monday,a few hours after being admitted to a hospital with stomach pains. He was expected to remain in the hospital about 24 hours. French team doctor Didier Polin said Behar, 27, still could run in the Oct. 1 men's marathon.
News From: Thursday, September 14, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Khalid Khannouchi would rather be in Sydney than Philadelphia (Philadelphia Daily News) Khalid Khannouchi will be running in a Philadelphia distance run rather than the Olympics this weekend, having missed the May trials with an injury sustained in the London Marathon in April.
News From: Thursday, August 31, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Mona hits the road running (The Courier) Mona is still confident he can end his 15-year career on a high note when he runs his 22nd - and final marathon on October 1 at the Olympic games in Sydney.
News From: Tuesday, August 29, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		MARATHON: Japan's Inubushi aims to silence critics (Nando Media/Agence France Press) Japan's marathon man Takayuki Inubushi plans to bring home a medal from Sydney to silence his critics, who regard his personal best running time as a fluke.
		Triumph in the face of adversity (The Irish Times) marathon hopeful Abukar Ahmed Mohamed (19) runs for the pride of his war-torn country Somalia, in a model of the Olympic ideal.
News From: Sunday, August 27, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Veteran Olympic Marathon Runner Keen to Return to Australia (AllAfrica.com) 80-year-old Bashaye Feleke, Ethiopia's first Olympic marathon runner, hopes to travel to Australia to attend the Olympic games.
News From: Friday, August 25, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Great Olympians 11: Emil Zatopek (The Hindu) Profile of Emil Zatopek, 1952 Olympic Marathon Champ.
News From: Tuesday, August 22, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Gebrselassie Leaves Long-Distance Mark (The Washington Post) Haile Gebrselassie sets his sites on the almost superhuman feat of breaking the two-hour barrier for the 26.2-mile marathon.
		Runners revere ex-coach Vigil (The Denver Post) Former Adams State runner Peter DeLaCerda, who placed second in the 2000 U.S. Olympic marathon trials, is just one of many elite runners who can boast being one of coach Joe Vigil's athletes.
News From: Saturday, August 19, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		AFRICA: Somalia's Olympian Effort Athletes leap hurdles to get to Sydney (SF Gate News) Marathon runner Abukar Mohamed speaks of the friends he will honor when he competes in the Sydney Olympic Games.
News From: Thursday, August 17, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Nothing to hide: athletes to sign off on their innocence in blood (Sydney Games) Marathon runner Steve Moneghetti vows to submit to the new blood testing procedures propsed for the Sydney Oylmpics.
News From: Tuesday, August 15, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Running man: marathoner Steve Moneghetti (Sydney Games) A profile of one of Australia's most well-liked Olympians.
News From: Monday, August 14, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Kenya: We've Buried the Hatchet, Assures Keino (NATION Reporter) The Kenya Amateur Athletic Association and the country's Olympic committee have agreed to quit squabling and instead focus on the upcoming Olympics.
News From: Friday, August 11, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Kenya: Tanui In Olympic Damages Claim (Africa News Online) Boston marathon champion Moses Tanui has sued the Kenya Amateur Athletic Association (KAAA) over his removal from the Olympic Marathon team.
News From: Thursday, August 10, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Lagat survives tribulations of Kenya trials (Spokane.net) The Story of Bernard Lagat's road to the Olympics.
News From: Tuesday, August 8, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Criticism Levelled At Kenya's Marathon Olympic Team (Panafrican News Agency) The organizers of the Boston marathon have criticized the Kenya Amateur Athletics Association for it's handling of the selection of the country's Olympic marathon team.
News From: Friday, August 4, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Training/ Health
		Runners opt for honest toil (Sports Today) Olympic athletics team head coach Chris Wardlaw feels cross country running is the perfect preparation for distance runners.
		Human Interest Story
		More confusion over Lagat's fate (The Nation) Elijah Lagat has reportedly not shown up for the Olympic team training camp at the Moi International Sports Centre Kasarani.
News From: Thursday, August 3, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Ngala still silent on Marathon (The Nation) Barely a week before Kenya's Olympics team leaves for Australia, it still seems no one knows how to resolve the current marathon stalemate.
		Politics Threatens Kenya's Athletics Supremacy (The East African) The KAAA and Rift Valley-based athletes need to find a way to settle their differences if Kenya is to retain its athletics supremacy.
News From: Tuesday, August 1, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		IAAF chief says Sydney won't be gold mine for US - IAAF could issue wildcards? (Nando/ Agence France-Press) Lamine Diack, head of the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) said that the Sydney Olympics won't be as successful for the US as the last Olympics in Atlanta, where the US won 13 gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze medals in the athletic events. Diack also mentioned that the IAAF could issue wildcards to the Olympics based on world rankings.
News From: Monday, July 31, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		KAAA: Lagat back on Kenya Olympics team (FOXSports.com) Boston Marathon champion Elijah Lagat has been reinstated to the Kenyan Olympic team in a move he calls "Strange."
News From: Saturday, July 29, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Boston Marathon champ back on Kenyan team (CNN/SI/AP) After first being selected for the Kenyan Olympic Marathon team, then being dropped, Elijah Lagat, the winner of the 2000 Boston Marathon has been reappointed to the Kenyan team. The way was paved for Lagat to rejoin the team following the shooting of Ondoro Osoro who is in stable condition but still recovering in the hospital.
News From: Wednesday, July 26, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Kenyan pair protests Olympic 'vendetta' (Nando Media) Marathon runners Moses Tanui and Elijah Lagat protested their controversial exclusion from Kenya's Olympics team Wednesday, stating that they felt the decision was based on personal vendettas.
		Kenya shuts Sydney door on axed marathon trio (Nando Media) The Kenya Amateur Athletics Association (KAAA) has ruled out the possibility of reinstating Moses Tanui, Elijah Lagat, and Japheth Kosgei to the Olympic team despite criticism.
News From: Tuesday, July 25, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Kenyan marathoner recovering after being shot (Nando Media) Ondoro Osoro was recovering on Tuesday after being shot in the neck two days before.
News From: Monday, July 24, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Human Interest Story
		Where are the marathoners? (Deseret News) America, once the dominant force in distance running, will only send two marathoners to this summer's Olympics. What gives?
		Kenyan marathon runner shot by thieves (Nando Media) Osoro Ondoro, a member of Kenya's new Olympic marathon team, is in stble condition after being shot in a carjacking incident.
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Battle erupts after Kenya dumps marathon team (Nando Media) The national athletics chiefs of Kenya dumped their Olympic marathon team for new one in a move some suspect is politcal.
News From: Wednesday, July 19, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Can U.S. find dominant male distance runner again? (The Sporting News) In the United States Men's distance running is in a slump. From the 800 meters to the marathon, the U.S. men will probably not be contenders at the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
News From: Thursday, June 29, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Non-Marathon/ Other Running
		Shorter to help in Olympic drug battle (Denver Post) Nearly 30 years after winning the Olympic Marathon, Frank Shorter will be performing other duties at the Olympics this year - as an observer with the White House Office of National Drug Policy Control to make sure that the IOC is making their best effort to keep the Olympics clean of performance enhancing drugs.
News From: Thursday, June 15, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Mona's marathon reaches its fourth Games - Australia's Moneghetti and Troop (The Courier) Steve Moneghetti will participate in his fourth Olympics for Australia along with his protege Lee Troop.
News From: Wednesday, June 7, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Healy hits Sydney trail, joins McKiernan on Irish marathon team. (Irish Independent) Gerry Healy has been selected by the Irish selectors to represent his country at the Sydney Olympics. He will join Catherina McKiernan who was selected several weeks ago.
News From: Wednesday, May 31, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Training/ Health
		New tests make Shorter optimistic about clean Games (Rocky Mountain News) New drug tests should be more effective in finding performance-enhancing drugs - standing to level the playing field, and perhaps allow American runners to get back into the game.
News From: Friday, May 26, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Marathoners appeal Games omission - Australia (News Interactive Australia) Pat Carroll and Silvana Trampuz have appealed their omission from the Australian Olympic Marathon Team.
News From: Saturday, May 20, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Heather Turland says: Leave Out Trampuz and Troop - Australian Selections (Sydney Morning Herald) Speaking on the eve of the Sydney Morning Herald Half Marathon, Heather Turland added her thoughts about which Australian runners should represent their country in the Sydney Olympics. The Australian Marathon team will be announced next week.
News From: Friday, May 19, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Spanish marathon pair join forces for medal - Fiz and Anton (Nando/Reuters) Spanish world marathon champions, Martin Fiz and Abel Anton will be running for Spain this summer in Sydney. On June 3 they will face off against each other in the La Rioja half marathon.
News From: Sunday, May 14, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Rocky road for marathon king (Sun Times (South Africa)) Josia Thugwane, the 1996 Olympic Marathon Gold Medalist has had a hard few years. With his coach and closest confidant suffering from cancer and having already outlived what the doctors have predicted, there is a lot on the mind of Thugwane as he prepares for the Olympics.
		Human Interest Story
		Inside Olympics: 124 Days to the Games (Atlanta Constitution) Interesting article about the athletes from past and future Olympics. Where are they now - where are they going...
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		OLYMPIC NOTES: Too many hurdles for marathoners (Boston Globe) More commentary about the choice of venue for the US Olympic Marthon Trials. Will these articles never end?
News From: Wednesday, May 10, 2000
	Olympics 2000 (Men)
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Thugwane to get chance to defend Olympic Marathon title (Nando/Reuters) Josia Thugwane of South Africa was named to his country's Olympic Team for the Marathon. Thugwane, the 1996 Olympic Marathon winner will have the opportunity to attempt to win a second Olympic Marathon, a feat which has only been completed twice: by Abebe Bikila (60/64) and Waldemar Cierpinski (76/80).

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