The Peach State

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Marusin Wins ING Georgia Marathon (WXIA-TV Atlanta)
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Oleg Marusin has won the 2008 ING Georgia Marathon. He finished the full, 26.2-mile marathon in 2:19:50.
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Marathon Has Downtown on the Run (WSB-TV 2 Atlanta)
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Well, it wasn't the Peachtree Road Race. But, in many ways, it was an even greater challenge for an estimated 15,000 runners who took part Sunday in downtown Atlanta in the second annual ING Marathon and Half-Marathon.
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Shantia Moss of Georgia Tech clocks 8.11 in 60m hurdles at Clemson
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Shantia Moss of Georgia Tech clocks 8.11 in 60m hurdles at Clemson
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Georgia's Levern Spencer clears 6-02.75 for high jump school record
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Led by junior Levern Spencer’s school record effort in the high jump, Georgia’s track and field teams also won three other events at the season-opening Clemson Invitational on Saturday.
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Country Day 8th at state cross country (Savannah Morning News)
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Savannah Country Day's boys' cross country team finished eighth in the state Class A meet with 265 points and SCD's girls finished 12th with 299 points at the GHSA State Cross Country Championships Saturday.
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Cadets, Saints win cross country meet (Savannah Morning News)
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Benedictine and St. Vincent's won the boys' and girls' titles Wednesday at a cross country meet hosted by Savannah Country Day.
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North Georgia College cross country posts top-10 finishes (AccessNorthGA)
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The North Georgia College and State University women captured fifth place and the men took seventh at the competitive Georgia State Cross Country Invitational Saturday, with Alan Schmitz and Emmy Lawalin leading their respective teams.
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Kenya's Irungu wins Atlanta's Peachtree Road Race
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Irungu was alone at the finish with a winning time of 28 minutes, 1 second in the 38th Peachtree Road Race, the largest 10K in the nation with about 55,000 runners.
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GA HS: Jackie Drouin runs 4:49.69 1,600, Emily Reese runs 4:48.51
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No story could end better than Jackie Drouin’s. She ended her unparalleled career at Collins Hill in her favorite event, with her best time and there is not a question how hard she ran. From the start of the Class AAAAA 1,600-meter run, Drouin had a lead and at every quarter-mile it grew before she crossed the finish line and no runner was within 150 meters of her.
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Women's Track & Field (Emory Wheel)
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The women's track and field team welcomed and competed with more than 20 schools at the Emory Invitational on Saturday. The Eagles finished fourth at the meet, which marked the first of three events Emory is hosting for the 2007 outdoor track season.
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GA HS: 2:08 800m runner Brittany Hall will head to LSU next year
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With her college decision made and a slew of titles already to her name, Brittany Hall is taking some time to enjoy her senior year. Hall, Meadowcreek’s highly decorated 800-meter specialist, has already defeated the best Gwinnett County and Georgia has to offer.
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Indoor Track & Field: Eagles Divide to Conquer Invites (Emory Wheel)
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For the men's and women's track and field teams, the weekend meant dividing in order to conquer. The Eagles spread across the country to compete in three different Invitationals in two different states.
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Running Stats reports on panel discussion of Beijing Olympic Games in Boulder
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On the Friday before Boulder’s USATF Winter Cross Country Champs, in the Millennium Hotel a panel convened to share their thoughts on the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing. Included were former marathon world recordholder and Boulder Distance Project coach Steve Jones, past Boston and New York City Marathons champion and now Oregon Distance Project coach Alberto Salazar,
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Georgia's Ian Burrell shatters 3,000m and 5,000m school records in one weekend
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According to Georgia’s head track and field coach Wayne Norton, his teams had their “most spectacular weekend in my 17 years at Georgia” at the Tyson Invitational and the Tiger Invitational on Friday and Saturday.
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Planners Hope Marathon Measures Up (WXIA-TV Atlanta)
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With every push of the pedal, Jack Grosko measured the course for the first ING Georgia Marathon in March. Jennifer Leslie Reports
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Coach Pae's Final Blog from Footlocker
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Saturday's events from the perspective of Coach Pae at the Footlocker Nationals.
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Georgia's 1st Annual "South of the Border" XC Team
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1st Annual Award to honor cross country athletes living south of the metro Atlanta and Athens area.
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Georgia Track & Field Clinic 2007
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Annoucement of the Georgia track and Field Clinic to be held on January 19th and 20th
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World and Olympic champion Devers - athlete, charity worker, coach and agent
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USA's Gail Devers, the two-time Olympic women's 100m champion and three-time World 100m Hurdles gold medallist, is now a coach and an athlete representative agent in addition to competing as an athlete and looking after her Charitable Foundation.
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For University of Georgia professor Maurits Van Der Veen, running is more than just a hobby
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Until UGa's student newspaper reported van der Veen's win at the Atlanta Marathon on Thanksgiving, his students had no clue about his extracurricular activity, he said.
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Georgia is known as the “Peach State” because of the growers' reputation for producing the highest quality fruit. The peach became the official state fruit in 1995.
source: http://www.sos.state.ga.us/museum/html/state_fruit.html