WORLD champion Luke Kibet.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  April 24, 2008 ;     42 words ...WORLD champion Luke Kibet is a shock omission from Kenya's men's Olympicmarathon team after he was yesterday named only as a reserve. Robert Cheruiyot,three-time London marathon winner Martin Lel and Samuel Wanjiru, runner-up atthis month's London event, are preferred..

Aths: Kenya exclude world champion Kibet from marathon team

AAP Sports News (Australia);  April 24, 2008 ;     82 words ...AAP Sports News (Australia) 04-24-2008 Aths: Kenya exclude world champion Kibet from marathon team Kenyan athletics bosses have surprisingly excluded world champion LUKE KIBET from the men's marathon team for the Beijing Olympics. Many Kenyans...

Box: Keogh new world champion

AAP Sports News (Australia);  September 28, 2008 ;     316 words ...Box: Keogh new world champion By Wayne Heming BRISBANE, Sept...has become Australia's latest world champion with a stunning first-round knockout...send Meas, the defending 66.8kg world champion, crashing to the canvas just two...

Aths: World champion Kibet threatened by gang - media

AAP Sports News (Australia);  February 15, 2008 ;     231 words ...AAP Sports News (Australia) 02-15-2008 Aths: World champion Kibet threatened by gang - media NAIROBI, Feb 15 Reuters - Kenya's world marathon champion Luke Kibet has been threatened by a gang just weeks after he narrowly escaped death at the hands...

If you're not on the front of the grid at Monaco, forget it! Why world...

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  May 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ......of the Formula One calendar, but for world champion Fernando Alonso, next Sunday's Monaco...happen, I hoped that maybe I would be world champion. Everything came as a surprise to me...Now I know what it takes to become world champion, I know how to lead and motivate a...

Cope shocks world champion Higgins

Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent UK);  December 11, 2007 ;     435 words ......the UK Championship by dumping out world champion John Higgins in the first round. Leading...best win of my career, beating the world champion is a great feeling. "I really enjoyed...because they know they're playing the world champion," he said. "You've got to rise above...

Clarence Vinson: Destined to be a World Champion

Washington Informer;  January 31, 2001 ;     700+ words ......01-31-2001 Clarence Vinson: Destined to be a World Champion By Sam Doku Informer Staff Writer Twenty-t...pursuit of his dream of becoming a world champion, is hopeful of unleashing a fiery performance...saw nothing else but an epitome of a world champion in the making. Indeed, so ...

Wre: Controversy as Wang upsets world champion Hamaguchi

AAP General News (Australia);  August 24, 2004 ;     362 words ......08-24-2004 Wre: Controversy as Wang upsets world champion Hamaguchi By Stefano Blin ATHENS, Aug...here today, ousting Japan's five-time world champion Kyoko Hamaguchi to claim a place in...decision which cost the reigning 72kg world champion a shot at the gold medal. The 26-year-o...

Hamilton under pressure at McLaren - hakkinen ; Double world champion Mika...

Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  May 24, 2008 ;     463 words ...Double world champion Mika Hakkinen believes Lewis Hamilton...Heikki Kovalainen following double world champion Fernando Alonso's exit. McLaren...career at McLaren with a double world champion as team-mate, and I'm sure he got...

Former world champion tips Kenyan runners

Xinhua News Agency;  August 20, 2008 ;     524 words ...Former world champion tips Kenyan runners NAIROBI, Aug...from going for a double. Former world champion and Athens bronze medallist Eliud...Kenenisa's sibling Tadesse. The former World champion implored the Kenyan runners to keep...

Rossi wins back-to-back Australian titles; Melandri youngest ever world...

AP Worldstream;  October 20, 2002 ;     436 words ......Dateline: PHILLIP ISLAND, Australia World champion Valentino Rossi defended his Australian...Australian title and become the youngest ever world champion in the class. Reigning 125cc world champion Manuel Poggiali's hopes of defending...

World Champion Paz aims for Olympic medal in Beijing

Xinhua News Agency;  July 9, 2008 ;     221 words ...World Champion Paz aims for Olympic medal in Beijing MADRID, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Sailing world champion Anton Paz has announced his ambition...sports paper Marca. Paz, the reigning world champion in the Tornado class, believes he will...

Newly-crowned F1 world champion Alonso says 2005 season is perfect

Xinhua News Agency;  October 14, 2005 ;     222 words ...Newly-crowned F1 world champion Alonso says 2005 season is perfect...14 (Xinhua) -- Newly-crowned world champion Fernando Alonso of Spain said...dominance to an end by winning the world champion two stages before the end of...

Schumacher says Vettel has thepotential to be world champion.(Sports)

Cape Times (South Africa);  September 16, 2008 ;     311 words ......ALAN BALDWIN MONZA, Italy: Seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher yesterday said compatriot...Sebastian Vettel had the potential to be a world champion as Germany continued celebrating the...close. He has the potential to be the world champion, but it's a long and rocky road. ...

Boxing world champion Duran to lead Olympic Delegation of Panama

Xinhua News Agency;  May 23, 2008 ;     231 words ...Boxing world champion Duran to lead Olympic Delegation...May 23 (Xinhua) -- The four times world champion of boxing, Roberto Duran, also called...Olympiad together with Irvin Saladino, world champion of long jump and who is going to...