Jan. 2 - Children as young as six-years-old are sent to special sports schools in China to be trained as future champions.
The school currently coaches more than 600 students in eight sports. About half of the students pay their own way. The other ...

January 03, 2008 - By Scott Douglasn only her second completed marathon, Camille Herron ran 2:45:40 at December’s Memphis Marathon to qualify for the 2008 Olympic Marathon Trials. A native of Oklahoma, where she was a state track champion, Herron...

Thursday January 3, 2008 - By John Wragg
Airbrush the ‘New York Marathon’ from her race number, add ‘Beijing 2008’ and the picture of Paula Radcliffe with the Union Jack and her baby Isla would be perfect.
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Thursday 3 January 2008Lucas Sang, a member of the Kenyan 4x400m Relay squad at the 1988 Olympics, was killed in his hometown of Eldoret on Tuesday when violence spread throughout the country in the wake of last week’s presidential elections...

USA Marathoning: 2007 Overview By MarathonGuide.com Staff
DRAFT - IN PROGRESS (posted 12/31/07) Due to issues in reporting finisher information by the Honolulu and Chicago Marathons, we were required to include some estimates in this report. If, or w...