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Stars Are Blind (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Meb Keflezighi won the New York City (NYC) ING Marathon (26.2 miles) on Sunday in a time of 2:09:15. Meb became the first American to win the race since Alberto Salazar in 1982. Keflezighi, is 34 years old and was raised in San Diego, California. He is one of eleven children and became [...] Related posts: American Idol sends Jorge Nunez home Jessica Simpson: New York City Concert Jorge Nunez-Mendez...
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Tanvir Kazmi: Running without limit (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Meb Keflezighi has become the 1st American ING New York City Marathon winner since the 1982 win of Alberto Salazar. Historic moment for Team USA with 6 in top 10 with Meb (1), Hall (4), Torres (7), Abdirahman (8), Arciniaga (9) and Lehmkuhle (10). This is probably the strongest Team USA performance in recent history! Meb Keflizghi set a new personal best en route to becoming the first American men's...
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Hispanic Business Magazine (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
China, which has lived behind closed doors for decades, opened its arms to the world Friday night in a spectacular opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics. Just 24 years after China rejoined the Olympic movement, helping to prevent a full-scale Eastern boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Games, the event arrived at the largest country on the planet for the first time....
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Some of the foreign-born athletes who will be competing for the United States at the Olympics in Beijing next month, listed by sport with country of birth in parentheses:
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Having been at the Olympic track and field trials, I had only a limited sense of the impact Dara Torres was making on the United States at the swim trials.It hit me last night, when my neighbor -- a 52-year-old mother of two boys, 11 and 8 -- said, "Dara Torres is my new hero."Then I did a little reading, and I realized some of the media ( NBC, NBC Nightly News, NBC's Today Show, NBCs Tonight...
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