No Barriers to Shaheen's Success World Athletics Championships
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ON a night marked by the crashing fall of two icons, steeplechaser Saif Saaeed Shaheen survived as the supreme champion. He won gold in 8min 13.31sec, thanks to a searing final lap of 57.68 seconds.
Yet the once-invicible Felix Sanchez and Maria Mutola, the long- time king and queen of the 400m hurdles and 800 metres, both of them world champions in 2001 and 2003, saw their reigns consigned to history on a torrential night in Helsinki.See the full content of this document
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No Barriers to Shaheen's Success World Athletics Championships
To many in Kenya, the land of his birth, where he was known as Stephen Cherono, Shaheen is a mercenary and a traitor. To Qatar, he is a hero.
But to Shaheen himself,...See the full content of this document
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