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Sunday, 29 August 2004
Men's Marathon
28 August 2004 - Athens, Greece - Propelled by a steady consistent late race run, Stefano Baldini became only the second Italian to win an Olympic marathon title.
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Men's 4x400m Final
28 August 2004 - The win by the US men in a near-Olympic record 2:55.91 was exciting only insofar as watching the clock was concerned. -
Women's 4x400m Final
28 August 2004 - The United States of America failed to claim a medal in the individual 400m race but made sure there would be no denying them of the 4x400m relay gold. -
Men's 4x100m Relay Final
28 August 2004 - Crawford, Gatlin, Miller, Greene. The names of the United States’ sprint relay quartet themselves are enough to fill other relay squads with terror. -
Men's 5000m Final
28 August 2004 - Athens, Greece - Hicham El Guerrouj made history in the Olympic stadium here tonight, becoming only the second man in history to win gold in both the 1500m and 5000m at one Olympic Games. -
Men's 800m Final
28 August 2004 - With a brilliantly executed kick, Yuriy Borzakovskiy silenced the critics that have shadowed his career with his gold medal run in the 800 metres. -
Men's Javelin Throw Final
28 August 2004 - Athens, Greece – Despite acknowledging in our event preview that this would perhaps be one of the most wide open competitions in Olympic Javelin history, it still came as a surprise that World Junior record holder Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway should win to... -
Women's 1500m Final
28 August 2004 - Athens, Greece - Alfred Shrubb, Sydney Wooderson, Roger Bannister, Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe… Some of the greatest names in British middle distance running, indeed in the sport globally, yet none of them ever managed to do what Kelly Holmes completed here tonigh... -
Women's High Jump Final
28 August 2004 - Convention wisdom in picking winners again took a backseat as World Indoor champion Yelena Slesarenko of Russia jumped an Olympic record 2.06 to win the gold over reigning World champion Hestrie Cloete of South Africa and, surprisingly, former European junior... -
Women's 4x100m Final
27 August 2004 - Athens, Greece - In her 200m press conference on Wednesday night gold medallist Veronica Campbell made an audacious claim: Jamaica’s 4x100m relay team would win the gold this evening of they get the baton round. “I can’t see anyone beating us,” she said.
