Saturday, August 16th, 2008
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| • | Injured Cheruiyot Pulls Out of Marathon: Kenya's World Marathon Majors champion, Robert "Mwafrika" Cheruiyot, will be replaced by world champion Luke Kibet in next weekend's marathon that will close the Olympic Games action.
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| • | Brave Dunford Battles to Fifth: Michael Phelps is from another planet. The rest of the guys in the final are human," was the way Martin Dunford said and he weighed his son Jason's chances ahead of Saturday's 100 metres butterfly final at the "Water Cube", Beijing's National Aquatic...
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| • | Jelimo, Jepkosgei Win 800m Semi Finals: Kenya's track queens Janeth Jepkosgei and Pamela Jelimo coasted into the 800 metres final by winning their semi-finals with ease at the Beijing Olympic Stadium Saturday night and immediately said they would meet and plot a Kenyan 1-2 finish at...
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| • | Beijing Notebook: Among the beneficiaries of the Olympics here are the Beijing tattoo artists. Chinese characters, dragons and phoenixes are the most popular, according to officials of an organisation of tattoo artists (yes, they are that organised!). For the younger...
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| • | Bayiga And Kiplagat Launch Medal Hunt: IF there is one athlete who can halt an expected Kenyan 1-2-3 steeplechase finish at the Olympics, it is 19-year-old Benjamin Kiplagat. Kiplagat's progression in the past year has seen him chop off nearly 30 seconds off his best time.
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