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	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		El Guerrouj regained the crucial centimetres, and the two ran stride for stride until El Guerrouj pulled ahead just as they reached the finish line.
		El Guerrouj had finally achieved his goal of winning an Olympic gold medal but he was not finished.
		El Guerrouj was the first runner to achieve the 1,500/5,000 double since Paavo Nurmi in 1924.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=94549 (390 words)

	The Hindu : Hicham El Guerrouj claims fourth world title
		El Guerrouj made light of Baala's challenge on the straight, looking up just once onto the giant scoreboard to see where his rivals were and then taking his index finger to his lips to suggest that he had silenced everyone, if that was needed at all.
		El Guerrouj clocked 3:31.77, Bala 3:32.31 and surprise bronze medallist Ivan Heshko of Ukraine 3:33.17.
		But El Guerrouj later explained how he had spent five sleepless nights thinking over this race and how much pressure he had endured since experts had started doubting his ability and his speed and since his main challenger was going to be a Frenchman.
	www.hindu.com /2003/08/29/stories/2003082901071900.htm (1224 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| today's news El Guerrouj still the king
		El Guerrouj revealed that it had not only been the personal goal of winning it for the fourth time and delivering a message to anyone who dared think he would not be number one going in to an Olympic year that motivated him but also a domestic one.
		El Guerrouj showed what a champion he is as he took up the pace after just one lap and despite Baala being roared on by the home crowd, and pressuring him the rest of the way, the Moroccan ignored the noise and drew away in the final straight.
		El Guerrouj showed the good spirit among the runners when, on his lap of honour, he stopped and picked up Baala's daughter and hugged her leaving an already emotional Frenchman in tears.
	sport.iafrica.com /news/266062.htm (628 words)

	SI.com - El Guerrouj buries demons, finally wins Olympic gold - Wednesday August 25, 2004 2:08AM
		El Guerrouj threw his arms high in the air and looked up to the sky after crossing the finish line in 3:34.18, just 12-hundredths of a second faster than Lagat.
		El Guerrouj has been the undisputed middle-distance king for more than a decade, with four straight world championship titles, and world records in the 1,500 and mile.
		Among those savoring El Guerrouj's victory was Nawal El Moutawakel, who won the 400-meter hurdles in Los Angles in 1984 to become the first gold medalist from Morocco and the first woman from a Muslim nation to win an Olympic medal.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/olympics/2004/track/08/25/bc.oly.goldforguerroujr.ap (860 words)

	El Dorado - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about El Dorado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The name is derived from the legend of a chief of a land thought to be in modern Colombia, South America, who was ceremonially covered with gold or gold dust, thus becoming el dorado (‘the gilded man’).
		Could I but succeed in once breaking down the barrier of religious superstition which had kept the red races from this El Dorado it would be a fitting memorial to the immortal virtues of my Princess--I should have again served Barsoom and Dejah Thoris' martyrdom would not have been in vain.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /El+Dorado (396 words)

	Hicham El Guerrouj
		Hicham El Guerrouj continued to totally dominate the 1500m and 1 mile events in 1999 as he had done in 1998.
		El Guerrouj and Ngeny met again in the 1500m at the World Championships in Seville on 24 August.
		Hicham's time of 3min 27.65sec was the fastest ever in major championships and the fifth fastest time ever run - only he and Morceli had ever run faster.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=226 (348 words)

	CBC Sports: Illness forces El Guerrouj to miss track worlds: report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		El Guerrouj made the decision not to compete nearly a month ago after a bout with tonsillitis, but waited until Monday to inform the public through the French sports daily newspaper L'Equipe.
		El Guerrouj predicted Silva of Portugal, whom he defeated in the 1,500 at the 2004 Athens Olympics, would capture this year's world championship.
		El Guerrouj, who plans to retire next year, is scheduled to resume workouts at the end of August.
	www.cbc.ca /story/sports/national/2005/07/25/Sports/elguerrouj050725.html?email (262 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| El Guerrouj fulfils dream
		Hicham El Guerrouj fulfilled his destiny last night, finally confirming his place in history with an Olympic title at the third attempt.
		El Guerrouj, the four-time world champion and world record holder at the mile and 1500m, celebrated by dancing a jig to Zorba's Dance that delighted the crowd inside the Olympic Stadium.
		It was a nervous El Guerrouj who lined up at the start of last night's race and his mood was not helped by a false start, something rarely seen in the metric mile.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/sport/2004/08/25/soguer25.xml (522 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Sport \| Athletics \| El Guerrouj thrives on new arrangement
		El Guerrouj's new perspective has found a tangible outlet in a charity he has set up to build a hospital near his home town of Berkane and he is considering a move into politics when his career is over, like the Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie, that other great pillar of distance running.
		El Guerrouj's mastery over his rivals in the 1500m is now so complete that he is planning to try a unique double in the world championships in Paris next month by also competing in the 5,000m there, scheduled for four days after the shorter distance.
		El Guerrouj is a keen student of athletics history and, though he wants to triumph in Athens for Allah, it is also for the men he considers to be God's gift to the mile - Sir Roger Bannister, Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett and Steve Cram.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /athletics/story/0,10082,996742,00.html (868 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| El Guerrouj at double in gold quest
		There, as the 21-year-old rising star of Morocco's new elite squad of runners, El Guerrouj tripped on the heel of the pre-race favourite and eventual champion, Noureddine Morceli, as he jostled for position at the bell.
		El Guerrouj, who showed his gratitude by buying Benzriguinet an apartment in Rabat, said: "He is very professional and better than a psychologist.
		El Guerrouj's objective includes visions of running the 10,000m at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/sport/2004/04/12/soathl12.xml (899 words)

	Running Network Archives
		HICHAM EL GUERROUJ SEBASTIAN COE: Welcome ladies and gentlemen to Nike and to the athletes and to the media hospitality.
		Hicham, as you know, is the current world record holder at 1500 metres, one mile, and 2000 metres and the reigning World Champion from Seville last year, over 1500 metres in what remains in my view as the greatest and most definitive performance at 1500 metres in a championship from any era.
		Hicham will be joined this afternoon by his translator so when you get the opportunity to ask questions, please bear in mind that they will have to be translated first.
	www.runningnetworkarchives.com /results.phtml?username=atf&id=28887 (3155 words)

	Track & Field News: Visiting El Guerrouj Photo Gallery I
		El Guerrouj (r) and his four training partners perform form drills prior to the interval session.
		El Guerrouj, one of his pacemakers and Khada converse before an easy 14K morning run on the Royal Circuit trails in a forest above Ifrane.
		The forest into which El G is about to jog could, by appearances, be a woodland almost anywhere in the world, although its cedar trees are characteristic of North Africa and the Middle East, and monkeys, rather than deer, are the most common local wildlife.
	www.trackandfieldnews.com /tfn/displayArticle.jsp?id=203 (404 words)

	USATODAY.com - Moroccan outruns ghosts to the finish line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		El Guerrouj was about to pass Noureddine Morceli entering the bell lap when Morceli's heel hit the Moroccan's knee, and El Guerrouj went down in a big Mary Decker Slaney heap.
		El Guerrouj lost by 25 hundredths of a second, and then, of course, he had to answer for his shame.
		What do you believe was going through El Guerrouj's mind when he already realized that this might be his last dance, that his 30-something legs wouldn't be favored in Beijing, and that an eighth-place finish in Rome had hinted at the beginnings of a decline.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/columnist/oconnor/2004-08-24-oconnor_x.htm (1079 words)

	Hicham El Guerrouj
		In the early part of the 2000 season, Hicham El Guerrouj continued his dominance of the 1 mile and 1500m events that he had enjoyed during 1998 and 1999, and there seemed little doubt that he would win the 1500m gold medal at the Olympic Games to be held later that year in Sydney.
		At Sydney, Chirchir was surprisingly eliminated in the heats, but El Guerrouj and Ngeny both won their respective semi-finals to set up another confrontation in the final on 29 September.
		It was El Guerrouj's first defeat at 1500m since failing to finish in the previous Olympic final in 1996.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=1532 (303 words)

	Defining moment blesses El Guerrouj - Athletics -
		In the last moment of solitude he would have before being mobbed and hailed as Olympic champion, Hicham El Guerrouj knelt on the track and touched his head to the surface in grateful prayer.
		El Guerrouj took the lead at 800m, but Lagat was never far behind.
		Said El Guerrouj: "I could feel him behind me and I knew the strength he had, and he came back at me. It was like an avalanche, the sensation...
	www.theage.com.au /olympics/articles/2004/08/25/1093246623200.html (799 words)

	Sun.Star Network Online -- Athens Olympics 2004
		El Guerrouj attributed the defeat in the Italian capital to bad weather conditions curtailing his preparations at his Atlas Mountains training base.
		Tears flooded down El Guerrouj's face moments after he crossed the line but they were tears of joy and relief compared to the ones of frustration that welled up at after his two previous Olympics finals.
		El Guerrouj may have lost his aura of invincibility this season but he has gained something much more valuable, the gold medal he has been striving for since was sent sprawling to the ground at the Atlanta Olympics eight years ago.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /specials/olympics/view.php?tid=20040825124400 (317 words)

	TIME Europe \| Olympics 2000: The Ones To Beat - Hicham El Guerrouj \| 9/11/2000
		El Guerrouj would have finished roughly 110 m ahead of Roger Bannister, had the first man to break the 4-min.-mile barrier been time-transported to Rome from chilly 1954 England.
		Another man who should know said of El Guerrouj last month, "The main thought I have about Hicham is his economy of movement, the way in which he is able to move his legs without any hint of strain or overstriding." The expert in question is Bannister, now 71.
		A meeting with him was one of the enticements for El Guerrouj to run at a meet in London.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/2000/0911/oly_elguerrouj.html (881 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| today Shock loss for El Guerrouj
		Morocco's four-time 1500m world champion Hicham El Guerrouj was beaten for the first time over the distance since the 2000 Sydney Olympics in Rome on Friday after coming eighth in the Golden League meeting.
		The last time El Guerrouj had been beaten over the metric mile was in Sydney when Kenyan Noah Ngeny upstaged the odds-on favourite.
		On the final bend, Guerrouj attempted to pass Baala and gain the lead but the finishing burst was just not there and he slowed down 60 metres before the line.
	sport.iafrica.com /news/332666.htm (591 words)

	Scotsman.com Sport - Athletics - El Guerrouj pursues rare double (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		El Guerrouj confirmed his status a great middle- distance runner when he finally won the 1,500 gold on Tuesday.
		El Guerrouj advanced by finishing third in his heat, behind two Ethiopians, 10,000 champion Kenenisa Bekele and Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam.
		El Guerrouj held off Kenya’s Bernard Lagat in a thrilling shoulder-to-shoulder sprint in the final straight to win the 1,500 and capture the only title to elude him so far.
	sport.scotsman.com /athletics.cfm?id=997492004 (617 words)

	El Guerrouj beats Bekele to historic double - Athens Olympics 2004 - ABC Sport.
		Hicham El Guerrouj has completed an historic Olympic 1,500-5,000 metres double, after a battle royal with Kenenisa Bekele in Athens.
		El Guerrouj had not won an Olympic title prior to these Games, having suffered heartbreak in the previous two over 1500m, but in the 5,000m he put Bekele to the sword with brutal force.
		El Guerrouj moved up to his shoulder in the straight and while Kipchoge tried to come back on the inside, Bekele struggled against the Moroccan before giving in to the inevitable.
	www.abc.net.au /sport/content/200408/s1187335.htm (451 words)

	El Guerrouj wins Olympic gold
		Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco struck Olympic gold at last on Tuesday to confirm his status as the greatest 1,500 metres runner in the history of athletics.
		El Guerrouj could not contain his happiness after crowning his glorious career with Olympic gold on Tuesday.
		El Guerrouj admitted he feared the worst when Lagat, who edged him out in Zurich on August 6, moved up to his shoulder 50 metres from the line.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2004/aug/25oly-ath5.htm (450 words)

	El Guerrouj finally celebrates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Catching and edging ahead of Kenya's Lagat in the final 30meters, El Guerrouj won the closest Olympic 1,500 since 1976, finally triumphing in a race that had twice broken his and his poor nation's hearts."It is finally complete," El Guerrouj said.
		El Guerrouj, 29, crossed the finish line in 3 minutes, 34.18 seconds, twelve-hundredths of a second ahead of Lagat.
		El Guerrouj, who lost only once after Atlanta, was one of the biggest favorites of the Sydney Games.
	www.ocregister.com /ocr/2004/08/25/sections/sports/olympics/article_214931.php (650 words)

	El Guerrouj completes historic double
		Hicham El Guerrouj completed a historic Olympic 1,500-5,000 metres double on Saturday after a battle royal with Kenenisa Bekele.
		El Guerrouj, however, played the perfect waiting game under the Olympic stadium floodlights, allowing the Ethiopians and Kenyans to dictate the early pace as the race surged and slowed.
		The race was a re-run of the world championships 5,000 last year when Bekele and El Guerrouj had approached the starting line having both won their earlier events.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2004/aug/29oly-ath.htm (415 words)

	UNICEF - Press centre - UNICEF congratulates Goodwill Ambassador Hicham El Guerrouj
		El Guerrouj ran his way into record books by being the first man in 80 years to win the 1,500 metres and 5,000 metres titles.
		Hicham El Guerrouj’s victory goes beyond the Olympic Arena," said UNICEF representative Maie Ayoub von Kohl in Morocco.
		El Guerrouj is the world champion runner who in 1998 set a new world record time of 3 min 26 sec for the 1,500 metres.
	www.unicef.org /media/media_23408.html (505 words)

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