Thursday 21 September 2000
Coverage from the Olympic Stadium as the track and field events get underway. Women's 800m round 1; men's 400m round 1; men's 100m round 1; women's 100m round 1. Commentary by Stuart Storey, David Coleman, Steve Cram, Paul Dickenson, Brendan Foster, Sally Gunnell and Christina Boxer.
Friday 22 September 2000
Featuring women's 5000m round 1; men's shot put final; women's 400m round 1; women's 100m round 1; men's 100m round 2; men's 10000m round 1. Commentary by Stuart Storey, David Coleman, Steve Cram, Paul Dickenson, Brendan Foster, Sally Gunnell and Christina Boxer.
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| ATHLETICS: Olympic Games at Sydney's Olympic Stadium |
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Women's 5000m Round 1; Men's Shot Put Final; Men's High Jump Qualifying Round; Women's 400m Round 1; Women's Triple Jump Qualifying Round; Women's 100m Round 2; Men's 100m Round 2; Men's 1km Round 1. Delayed.
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| ATHLETICS: Olympic Games at Sydney's Olympic Stadium |
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Highlights and interviews.
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Olympic Games:
Sydney: Men's Marathon
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Antonio
Pinto
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With over 100
entrants, the Olympic Marathon is a difficult event to call - also because
there is so much scope for the unexpected to take place. But having said
that, it also provides such a greatest test of endurance, ao therefore,
the cream has the greatest opportunity to rise to the top.
The three leading contenders will be world record holder Khalid Khannouchi
of Morocco, London Marathon winner Antonio Pinto, whose winning time was the
fastest in the world this year, and defending Olympic champion Josia Thugwane
of South Africa.
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Martin
Fiz
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Tokyo Marathon
winner Japhet Kosgei currently holds the second fastest time of the year,
where he edged Korea's Lee Bong-Ju by five seconds. Another Moroccan, Abdelkader
El Mouaziz, was second in London, and finished over a minute ahead of his
compatriot, Khannouchi, in third.
Other Marathon
winners this year include Spanish veteran Martin Fiz, who shows no sign
of slowing down at the age of 37, and Kenya's Josephat Kiprono, who won
the Millenium Marathon on New Year's Day.
Olympic
Games: Sydney: Women's Marathon
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Lidia Simon (Left)
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The woman they've
all got to beat is Kenya's Tegla Loroupe. The 29-year-old London Marathon
winner has succeeded in the most trying of circumstances, needing to move
to Germany to link up with a coach, and having to pose as his housemaid
- training on the sly - just so eyebrows wouldn't be raised. They must have
been surprised when Tegla broke the world record in Berlin a year ago!
Ethiopia's
marathon hopes lie on the shoulders of the now legendary Fatuma Roba - going
for an unprecedented repeat of a victory in the Atlanta Olympics, although
the 29-year-old's best this year was a third in Boston behind Kenya's Catherine
Ndereba.
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Fatuma
Roba
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Japan boast
a strong squad - with Naoko Takahashi's winning time in Nagoya the fastest
in the world this year. A second place finish behind Romania's Lidia Simon
in Osaka for Harumi Hiroyama knocked five and a half minutes off her personal
best, and gave her the third fastest time of the year.
The surprise
winner in Seville was Song-Ok Jong from the People's Reublic of Korea, who
finished three seconds ahead of Japan's Ari Ichihashi, with Lidia Simon
third.
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