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	Francis Obikwelu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francis Obirah Obikwelu, born 22 November 1978 in Nigeria and Portuguese citizen since 2001 is a sprint athlete specializing in 100 m and 200 m, who finished second in the 100 m at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, the first medal ever in athletics sprinting events for Portugal.
		She said Obikwelu took the decision because of neglect by Nigerian sports officials when he was injured while representing Nigeria in Sydney.
		Moreover, Obikwelu was the 1996 world junior champion over 100m and 200m.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Obikwelu (339 words)

	AthleticsAfrica.Com - Obikwelu beats US opposition
		Obikwelu was also part of the Nigeria quartet of Innocent Asonze, Daniel Effiong and Deji Aliu that won a bronze medal with 37.91, an African record, in the 4X100 metres relay.
		Obikwelu, who became a Portuguese citizen four years ago, won the 100 metres in 10.05 seconds ahead of American pair Shawn Crawford, 200 metres gold medallist in Athens, and Justin Gatlin, 100 metres champion, who both posted 10.14 seconds respectively.
		Obikwelu rose to prominence after winning the 100 metres and 200 metres for Nigeria at the IAAF world junior championships in 1996.
	www.athleticsafrica.com /Outgoing/obikweludoha_ns_140505.html (265 words)

	leichtathletik.de - News/Pressemitteilungen: Listen To The Star - Francis Obikwelu
		Obikwelu won two gold medals at the 1996 World Junior Championships (100 and 200), and was the African 200m champion in 1999.
		Obikwelu won the 200m bronze medal at the Seville World Championships in 1999 as a 20-year-old representing his native Nigeria.
		Standing 1.95m, Obikwelu is one of the tallest sprinters on the international circuit.
	www.leichtathletik.de /dokumente/pressemitteilung_view.asp?ID=1266 (155 words)

	Athens Olympics :: Francis Obikwelu beats Maurice Greene
		Francis Obikwelu flew off his 100M starting block much little later than Gatlin,the winner of the Athens Olympic gold medal, and he again slowed down just before the finishing line.Otherwise,he would have beaten Gatlin to it in the 100M dash.
		Francis Obikwelu flew off his 100M starting block much later than Gatlin,the winner of the Athens Olympic gold medal, and he again slowed down just before the finishing line.Otherwise,he would have beaten Gatlin to it in the 100M dash.
		Francis should of had that he slowed down at the end and thas how Gatlin got through him Francis passed by Greene and Asafa Powell with eeze and left both too the dead......
	www.livingroom.org.au /olympics/archives/francis_obikwelu_beats_maurice_greene.php (488 words)

	Francis, Saint -> Founding of the Franciscan Order on Encyclopedia.com 2002
		Francis Joyon le 8 novembre à Saint-Malo Parmi les quatre abandons sur problèmes matériels, Franck Cammas (Groupama) et Fr.
		Francis Joyon le 8 novembre à Saint-Malo La description de son chavirage par Joyon, correspond exactement avec celles four.
		IN VIVID HUES: The Treasury of Saint Francis of Assisi.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/FrancisSt_FoundingoftheFranciscanOrder.asp (764 words)

	SF Gate: Multimedia (image)
		Francis Obikwelu of Portugal, right, wins the 100 meters at the Golden League track and field meeting at the Stade de France in Saint Denis outside Paris Friday.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/object/article?f=/news/archive/2004/07/23/sports1532EDT0331.DTL&o=0 (28 words)

	The Scotsman - Sport - Other Sport - Greene left with little to celebrate on his birthday as Obikwelu wins
		NIGERIAN-born Portuguese Francis Obikwelu upset Olympic champion Maurice Greene on his 30th birthday with victory in the men’s 100 metres at the Paris Golden League meeting last night.
		Obikwelu, European silver medallist two years ago at the 100 and 200, said it was only two weeks since he recovered from a pulled hamstring.
		Obikwelu, a member of the minority Ibo tribe who emigrated to Portugal in 1994 and became a citizen three years ago, clocked 10.06 seconds to Greene’s 10.14.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /othersport.cfm?id=847492004 (918 words)

	The Sun News On-line Sports
		Nigerians, this week, held differing views after the 100 metres silver won by Francis Obikwelu at the Athens 2004 Olympics was recorded for the sprinter’s adopted country, Portugal.
		Although Francis Obikwelu is now doing Portugal proud, it does not justify his action, "he stressed.
		The commissioner, who wished Obikwelu had run in Nigerian colour instead of Portugal, said no amount of bad leadership by the Nigerian sports administrators could justify the athlete& action to switch citizenship.
	www.sunnewsonline.com /webpages/sports/2004/aug/30/sports-30-08-2004-004.htm (950 words)

	CNN.com - Gatlin claims blue riband victory - Aug 22, 2004
		Francis Obikwelu of Portugal got the silver and the European record in 9.86.
		Obikwelu, who milked the crowd as he danced and clapped before the race, was also happy.
		But the finish came a meter too late for Obikwelu's huge dip and it was Gatlin who was celebrating as he finished one hundredth of a second outside Donovan Bailey's 1996 Olympic record of 9.84.
	www.cnn.com /2004/SPORT/08/22/100m.gatlin (518 words)

	THISDAYonline
		As Nigerians pray hard to get on the medals table with just four days to the end of the Olympics, the country's closest link to the table Francis Obikwelu has disowned Nigeria.
		Obikwelu drew serious attention from the media and spectators in the early morning race (00.12am local time) not just because he carried the Portuguese flag, but because he nearly beat the Americans to their trade mark race."I thought I was there, winning the race.
		Obikwelu finished with a time 9.86 in a race dubbed the 'closest finish in the Olympic 100m'.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2004/08/24/20040824spo01.html (367 words)

	News -- I am Portuguese, and I am very happy to win for Portugal, says Obikwelu
		LYMPIC Games silver medallist in the 100m, Portugal's Francis Obikwelu, seems not to have forgotten the incident that led to his dumping Nigeria, his fatherland and country of birth, four years ago.
		The remote cause of Obikwelu's change of nationality, according to him, was because he was injured at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, and the Sports Development Department of the Ministry of Sports refused to pick his bills.
		Obikwelu won the sprint double as a junior athlete for Nigeria in 1996.
	odili.net /news/source/2004/aug/24/27.html (1282 words)

	Sprinting News, August, 2002
		Obikwelu was timed in 20.21 seconds, a season best and good for a new national record for his adopted country, and Briton Marlon Devonish won bronze in 20.24, his third best time ever.
		Campbell was a clear third in 10.15 and was the first to congratulate his team-mate whose time was a hundredth quicker than he had run in 1999 when he finished third in the world championships in Seville.
		Fredericks, the winner of heat one, finished eighth in 10.39 as he was hampered by a hamstring injury in the final.
	www.geocities.com /sprintingelite/2002aug.html (5457 words)

	The Peninsula On-line: Qatar's leading English Daily
		Francis Obikwelu of Portugal during his triumphant run in the 100M event at the Qatar Super Athletic Grand Prix in Doha yesterday.
		The American was beaten to the third place in the IAAF Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix here yesterday as the Athens Games silver medallist Francis Obikwelu won the gold in a time of 10.05 here.
		Obikwelu said it was his first race of the season and that he was not surprised with the result.
	www.thepeninsulaqatar.com /Display_news.asp?section=Sports_News&subsection=Athletics&month=May2005&file=Sports_News2005051472021.xml (784 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News - Article
		Obikwelu is now fully assimilated into the country and has a Portuguese coach, Fausto Ribeiro from the national club ‘Belenenses’.
		Obikwelu closed his season with another promising result at the IAAF World Cup in Madrid in September.
		It was at the age of 14, when Obikwelu was practicing for football that a coach first recognised his athletic potential.
	www.iaaf.org /news/Kind=2/newsId=19963.html (974 words)

	azcentral.com sports Summer Olympics: Gatlin wins gold in 100m sprint
		Francis Obikwelu of Portugal got the silver in 9.86 and defending champion Maurice Greene won bronze in 9.87.
	www.azcentral.com /sports/azetc/04olympics/0822mens100-ON.html (368 words)

	The Nigerian Village Square - Olympics, anyone?
		Francis' excuse for running for Nigeria again sorry- Spain- this time- is the lack of care on the part of you know who or what.
		Unfortunately, the Obikwelus and the rest of us are the metaphor for the situation in which the corrupt and visionless take turns in visiting ruin and misery on the motherland.
		Francis was injured representing Nigeria at Sydney Olympics, he was not taken care of.
	www.nigeriavillagesquare.com /board/printthread.php?t=1857 (1425 words)

	Caribbean Net News
		American veteran Maurice Greene, a former Olympic champion and world record holder has the second best time at 10.03, while Dwight Thomas (10.05), Francis Obikwelu (10.05) and Leonard Scott (10.06) completes the top five on the list.
		Francis is also in charge of Olympic relay gold medallist Sherone Simpson the current world leader in the women’s sprints at 11.03 over 100m and 22.46 over 200m.
		KINGSTON, Jamaica: Stephen Francis, the coach of Jamaica's national 100m champion and record holder Asafa Powell has confirmed that the star sprinter is back on the track following his injury scare last weekend.
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /cgi-bin/GPrint2002.pl?file=2005/05/23/scare.shtml (223 words)

	Track and Field News
		Francis Obikwelu took the lead at 95 meter.
		In an event that was supposed to be won by world record holder Maurice Greene, Jamaican national champion Asafar Powell or even Portuguese National champion Obikwelu Francis, a name not mentioned at all took home the gold.
		Gatlin used his turnover speed to edge Obikwelu just at the end, finishing in an remarkable 9.85 seconds, the fastest time this year.
	www.iroyrunning.com /justingatlin.htm (224 words)

	Boxing: Harrison to fight Francis
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		Reuters - Francis Crick, who helped discover the double helix shape of DNA along with James Watson, has died at the age of 88, his family said on Thursday.
		The leading molecular biologist of his age, Francis H.C. Crick laid the foundations of molecular biology in a 13-year burst of sustained creativity.
	www.stargeek.com /item/113832.html (2135 words)

	Weekly Trust - Emedolu upstages Obikwelu in athletics
		But the appearance streak was broken in the 2000 Sydney Olympics where Nigeria only had Francis Obikwelu in the finals.
		With his victory over Obikwelu, he has proved that he possesses the ability to succeed Obikwelu whose desertion from Nigeria has put the nation’s athletics family in an unhappy state.
		Weekly Trust - Emedolu upstages Obikwelu in athletics
	www.weeklytrust.com /emedolu11102002.htm (573 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports > Olympics -- Fast Feat
		Francis Obikwelu of Portugal (via Nigeria) was second in 9.86, followed by 2000 Olympic champion Maurice Greene in 9.87.
		In a photo finish shot of the men`s 100-meter finals, the United States` Justin Gatlin (top) edges Portugal` s Francis Obikwelu (center) and teammate Maurice Greene (bottom).
		Justin Gatlin (right), who ran a 9.85, stretches for the line to edge Portugal's Francis Obikwelu (second) and American Shawn Crawford (fourth).
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics/track/20040823-9999-lz1x23feet.html (815 words)

	Agence France Presse French: Athlétisme à Doha: Obikwelu prend sa revanche sur Gatlin@ HighBeam Research
		Le Portugais Francis Obikwelu, médaillé d'argent du 100 m olympique à Athènes l'été dernier, a pris une belle revanche vendredi à Doha sur le champion olympique, l'Américain Justin Gatlin, en remportant en 10 sec 05 cette course comptant pour le Super Grand Prix d'athlétisme.
		Le Portugais Francis Obikwelu, médaillé d'argent du 100 m olympique à Athènes l'été dernier, a pris une belle revanche...
		Athlétisme à Doha: Obikwelu prend sa revanche sur Gatlin
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:108714509&refid=holomed_1 (211 words)

	The Hindu : Sport / Athletics : Obikwelu exacts his vengeance
		DOHA: Athens silver medallist Francis Obikwelu of Portugal upstaged Olympic champion Justin Gatlin of the United States to win the 100m in the Qatar Super Grand Prix on Friday.
		Obikwelu, in his first race of the year, clocked the year's best time of 10.05 seconds.
		Obikwelu's effort was a Doha meet record, beating Canadian Donovan Bailey's 10.07 set in May 1998.
	www.hindu.com /2005/05/15/stories/2005051502151900.htm (453 words)

	No medal for Powell - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		The 22 year-old posted a personal best time of 9.85 seconds to beat Francis Obikwelu of Portugal, who timed a European record of 9.86 sec, while 2000 Olympic champion Maurice Greene was third in a season's best 9.87 sec.
		Justin Gatlin (right)of the USA wins the men's 100 metres ahead of Portugal's Francis Obikwelu (centre) and Maurice Greene (left) at the Olympic Stadium in Athens yesterday.
		In 2001, he tested positive for amphetamines and was hit with a two-year ban which was reduced to one year after he appealed on the grounds he required treatment for attention deficit disorder.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /sports/html/20040823T000000-0500_65000_OBS_NO_MEDAL_FOR_POWELL.asp (748 words)

	Go For the Gold
		Justin Gatlin of the U.S. (right) crosses the line head of Portugal's Francis Obikwelu (center) and Maurice Greene, also of the U.S. (left), to win the gold medal in the 100 meters at the 2004 Olympic Games on Sunday, August 22, 2004.
		All eyes were on Maurice Greene, Shawn Crawford of South Carolina, and Francis Obikwelu of Portugal as the top three to bring home medals.
		Obikwelu finished in 9.86, and Greene in 9.87.
	teacher.scholastic.com /activities/athens_games/news-0823_track.htm (396 words)

	The Sunday Mail QLD: Obikwelu spoils Greene's party (archived)
		He crossed the line behind Portugal's 1999 200m world bronze medallist Francis Obikwelu, who went on to win the 200m for good measure later.
		Obikwelu, though, was delighted to have prevailed as he was not fully race fit.
		Greene blamed being in the country for just two days for his defeat, which saw the mercurial Obikwelu overcome him in the final 20 metres to win quite easily.
	www.thesundaymail.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5936,10231659%255E23218,00.html (926 words)

	News -- Basketball star, Olumide Oyedeji, congratulates Obikwelu
		While many Nigerian track and field faithfulls are yet to recover from the shock of seeing speed star, Francis Obikwelu, win a silver medal for his adopted country, Portugal last Sunday in the 100 meters men's final, Basketball star, Olumide Oyedeji, has thrown his weight behind the athlete.
		The basketball star opined that Obikwelu and other athletes competing for other nations is an eye opener of more to come unless urgent steps are taking that will ensure that welfare of athletes is given high priority by the administrators.
		Oyedeji believes that it will amount to committing a gamblers fallacy to think that the athlete would have won the medal for Nigeria if he had competed in the Green white Green colours of the country.
	odili.net /news/source/2004/aug/24/226.html (257 words)

	Francis Obikwelu
		The photos above shows Francis (left of picture) on his way to victory in the 200m at the 2002 World Cup.
		This photograph is the copyright © of George Herringshaw and sporting-heroes.net
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=2379 (32 words)

	Sports : COMPLAINTS GALORE AS...More athletes set to dump Nigeria
		“Today, Francis Obikwelu is an Olympic silver medalist courtesy of the fact that he ran in the colours of Portugal.
		In Portugal, Obikwelu got all the help he needed, as his injury was treated and he subsequently did not need a second thought to dump Nigeria for Portugal.
		With Obikwelu and Alozie gone, the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) tightened the noose and thus made it very difficult for other athletes with similar ambition to leave.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/sports/sp806112004.html (2010 words)

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