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	Said Aouita - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Aouita, Said, born in 1960, Moroccan runner, who was outstanding at middle and long distances.
		Said Aouita, regaining his fitness after a year's absence with surgery for compartment syndrome, watched Morceli carefully from 2m back in their heat and said, "I had lots of energy left.
		Ovett was trapped in the pack, ultimately finishing fourth, while Cram outkicked Steve Scott and Said Aouita in the last 200 m.
	encarta.msn.com /Said_Aouita.html (245 words)

	Said Aouita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saïd Aouita (Arabic: سعيد عويطة) (born November 2, 1959) is a former Moroccan athlete, winner of 5000 meters at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
		Aouita sprinted the final 100 m of that race in 11.8 s and nearly caught Cram, but his dream of being the first man under the magic barrier was destroyed.
		Aouita did not compete in the 1990 outdoor season, and when he returned to competition, was unable to recapture the dominance he had imposed during the 1980s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Said_Aouita (904 words)

	AA keen to retain Aouita as coach - Sport - www.theage.com.au
		Said Aouita admitted yesterday that his appointment as national distance coach was flawed from the start and said if he had his time over again, he would be based in Melbourne, "where they talk my language".
		Aouita has been at loggerheads with other coaches in Australia, and in an interview with The Age yesterday, he admitted he had problems with athlete-manager and coach Nic Bideau, who has criticised Aouita's techniques and the amount of money and resources devoted to his program.
		In his interview with The Age, Aouita said his request to visit Victoria early in his tenure was denied by Athletics Australia head coach Keith Connor and that the national body told him not to speak to "these Mafia guys" in Melbourne.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/02/29/1077989434087.html (542 words)

	Clarke: drugs only hope for even racing - smh.com.au
		He said that until a treatment was available to even the odds between athletes born and bred at altitude and those at sea level, there could never be even international competition.
		Aouita, who won the 5000m at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, is widely regarded as one of the best middle-distance runners of all time.
		Aouita, who will be based at the NSW Institute of Sport in Sydney, said he had been looking for an opportunity to work in Australia.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/07/03/1025667007829.html (467 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Athletics \| Aouita gets Australia nod
		Said Aouita has been given the green light to take over as the new head of Australia's middle distance programme.
		Aouita, who denied the allegations, was cleared by the investigation on Wednesday and given permission to start his new job next month.
		Aouita is recognised as one of the finest middle distance runners of all time.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/athletics/2235618.stm (272 words)

	Said Aouita
		Said Aouita dominated middle distance running in the 1980s at all distances between 800m and 5000m.
		At Helsinki, the pace dawdled for the first 1000m, tactics that did not suit Aouita, and he was outkicked by the sprinters, finishing third and learning a valuable lesson.
		Aouita improved his times significantly in the early part of the 1984 season, moving to third on the all-time 1500m list and second on the 5000m list.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=72 (312 words)

	Rainsberger Athletics -
		The same week I spotted Said Aouita in Eugene, I saw three more past greats at the Steamboat Marathon in Colorado.
		You remember her as Lisa Weidenbach, who, three times in a row between 1984 and '92, missed the Olympic Marathon team by one place.
		"This is my medal," said Lisa, who had a difficult pregnancy with her first child.
	www.traininggoals.com /articles01.html (543 words)

	Morceli's 1995 Season - Reports
		Aouita set five world records at his peak in the mid-to-late 1980s and there was a touch of poetry in the way that his last surviving record -- the 2,000 mark of 4:50.81 he set in Paris in July 1987 -- should fall to Morceli in the same city earlier this month.
		Aouita, who lent a guiding hand to the young Morceli, predicted that the Algerian would succeed him as the undisputed king of middle-distance running and so far has been proved right.
		Morceli himself has often said that he wants to be remembered as the greatest middle-distance runner of all time and the way he has bitten such huge chunks off the records he as broken shows that he could well earn that accolade.
	www.cs.rochester.edu /~tetreaul/m95s.html (2032 words)

	CoolRunning Australia - Latest News
		Aouita responded yesterday to allegations by Melissa Rollison, a medal prospect in the 3000m steeplechase at next month's Commonwealth Games, that he'd urged her to take human growth hormone while training in the US in 2003.
		I said right at the start that I wasn't interested and he was like: 'Everyone else is on it so why wouldn't you want to?' I said I wanted to make it the proper way, but he then tried to convince me that HGH wasn't illegal.
		Aouita's two-year stint as a national coach ended in 2004 amid controversy after Victorian athlete Mark Fountain, who was on the camp in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with Rollison, raised the drug allegations in a letter to the Australian Sports Commission.
	www.coolrunning.com.au /latestnews/2006_02_01_archive.shtml (14094 words)

	The King of the Mile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		God willing, he said, kissing his hands and putting them to his face, a gold medal would be a remarkable birthday present.
		He said he had been amazed to see el-Guerrouj, a miler, training like a marathoner, running 13 to 15 miles in an hour and a half.
		It was a mile away, he said, and the family would tell him, "Run fast, Hicham; you have seven minutes until the bread is cold." When he returned home, he said with a laugh, his brothers and sisters would clap as if he had just crossed the finish line of a race.
	www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/gurrj.htm (3033 words)

	Aouita Said - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Aouita Said - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Aouita, Said (1960-), first men's track gold medallist from an Arabic nation in Olympic history.
		Language, communication among human beings that is characterized by the use of arbitrary spoken or written symbols with agreed-upon meanings.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Aouita_Said.html (192 words)

	PM - New running coach appointed
		Aouita comes from Morocco, and political enemies in the Moroccan Athletics Federation were white-anting him, it seems.
		Aouita says athletics in Morocco is in a mess.
		SAID AOUITA: Of course for someone who doesn't like me maybe, he said everything, it doesn't come from anyone, just from these two people.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s667307.htm (580 words)

	Morceli's 1991 Season - Reports
		After a season of relative inactivity, Moroccan Aouita didn't appear fully recovered from compartment syndrome surgery, as he was unable to respond to Bob Kennedy's kick in the 3000.
		Said Aouita, regaining his fitness after a year's absence with surgery for compartment syndrome, watched Morceli carefully from 2m back in their heat and said, "I had lots of energy left.
		Aouita was pushed to a 3:36.13 for 2nd.
	www.cs.rochester.edu /u/www/u/tetreaul/m91s.html (3540 words)

	IAAF honors Morocco's Said Aouita
		Said Aouita was the first athlete ever in history to run the 5000 m race in less than 13 mn, when he covered the distance in Rome in July 1987 in a timing of 12:58.39.
		Aouita told MAP the tribute ceremony in his honor is a tribute to Morocco and to all Moroccan athletes.
		Aouita and Al-Moutawakkil were recently polled by the popular channel as the Arab athletes of the year.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/010629/2001062919.html (522 words)

	Current Biography Excerpts: Track and Field
		Considered by many track and field experts to be the most versatile runner who has ever lived, the Moroccan Said Aouita holds the current world record in five running events: the 1,500, 2,000, 3,000, and 5,000 meters and the two miles.
		Yet, in spite of his remarkable athletic ability, Said Aouita is viewed with disfavor by many in the running community because of his boastfulness and blatant self-aggrandizement.
		At the same time that she earned the unofficial title of the world's fastest woman, "FloJo," as she has come to be called, brought unprecedented glamour to women's track with her striking makeup, shoulder-length wavy hair, and the one-legged leotards, bikini briefs, and see-through bodysuits that she chose to compete in.
	www.hwwilson.com /currentbio/track.html (3930 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
		Fastest in the preliminary round, Saïd Aouita of Morocco coasted to a 13:28.30 semi-final clocking ahead of the World record holder David Moorcroft (GBR), who was never to feature prominently in the final.
		Aouita made his move with 250m to go and — running the last 400m in 55.0 — came home in 13:05.59, an Olympic record, and the third fastest time ever run.
		Said Aouita MAR 13:05.59 OR Markus Ryffel SWI 13:07.54
	www.iaaf.org /news/newsId=26576,printer.html (314 words)

	Morceli worried by Moroccan Independent, The (London) - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		El Guerroudj, who was born in the Moroccan town of Ait-taghi, is following in the steps of his great fellow countryman Said Aouita, who held records at 1,500m, the mile and 5,000m in the 1980s, taking the Olympic title at the latter event in Los Angeles in 1984.
		"Said was a very early star and there was no one like him," Daouda said.
		When Aouita won the 5,000m gold in Los Angeles in 1984, King Hassan marked his achievement by renaming the Rabat-Casablanca train in his honour, calling it "The Aouita Express".
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19960803/ai_n14070938 (694 words)

	Australia reopens investigation of track coach - Olympics news - MSNBC.com
		Rollison said Sunday she and the other Albuquerque athletes helped Fountain write the letter but didn’t support the complaint at a subsequent inquiry due to “misguided” loyalty to Aouita.
		He said the claims were a “heavy burden” on Rollison, but were “simply allegations which may be difficult to verify.”
		Aouita left Australia in 2004 after spending two years as it’s distance coach and now heads Qatar’s Academy for Sporting Excellence in Doha.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11450577/from/RSS/' (359 words)

	Drake Relays News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		The Australian distance coach is Said Aouita who is one of the top distance runners in the history of track and field.
		Running for Morocco, Aouita won the gold medal in the 5,000 and the bronze in the 800 at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
		Aouita owned a personal best of 3:46.76 in the mile en route to winning the 1987 World Championships.
	www.drakerelays.org /read.asp?articleID=5805 (269 words)

	Another Gold for ASPIRE \| Appointments
		Olympian Said Aouita, who won the 5,000m Gold in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics has been brought on board to assist and advise ASPIRE's coaches in the development of the academy's high-performance sports training programmes.
		Said Aouita said: 'When I first came to ASPIRE, I was immediately convinced by the academy's vision to create the best opportunities for the most talented children.
		Said Aouita is a world-class talent, an inspirational athlete and we are confident that with his considerable knowledge and experience, our athletes will have the very best opportunities to succeed.'
	www.ameinfo.com /77363.html (760 words)

	Scotsman.com Sport - Aouita hit by drug allegations
		Said Aouita, Morocco's former Olympic 5,000 metres champion, is at the centre of a drugs controversy in Australia.
		One of Australia's top medal hopes for next month's Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Melissa Rollison, has accused Aouita of telling her to use banned human growth hormone during his spell as national distance coach Down Under in 2002-2004.
		Aouita, who during the 1980s set multiple world records, has always denied any involvement with drugs.
	sport.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=257882006\' (281 words)

	Training of Hicham El Guerrouge 1500m World Record Holder
		Upon arrival at Tessaloniki airport we got on the same bus with the Morocco mens team, the team manager then was Said Aouita, among other things he told me was that they were going to win the race and talked a lot about a young skinny and shy athlete named Hicham El Guerrouj.
		He said that this young man was going to become the best 1500 runner in history.
		He's strong-willed, ambitious, and believes he can run the 1500 m under 3:24 [Note: when this was said in 1997 N. Morceli still had the 1500m WR].
	www.oztrack.com /hicham.htm (2654 words)

	TIME.com: Final -- Oct. 10, 1988 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		He had completed the two laps in 1:43.45, comfortably ahead of defending champion Joaquim Cruz of Brazil and the celebrated Said Aouita of Morocco.
		Ereng, 20, a sophomore at the University of Virginia, began competing in the 800 meters only this year and had not been expected to place in Seoul.Instead he led a return of Kenya to the head of the distance pack.
		Said he: "We have many young talents back home, and it is not easy to make the Olympic team.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,968636,00.html (489 words)

	RW Daily News: November 2006
		And Aouita has a lot of advice for Said Saaeed Shaheen about how to extend his rannge across a variety of distances - as Aouita, who was also an Olympic medalist in the 800, managed to do.
		Schumann, Germany's 800-meter gold medalist in the 2000 Olympics, is the subject of an investigation by the German athletics federation DLV based on evidence that surfaced in the case of his former coach, Thomas Springstein.
		It's hard to say it the Lady Razorbacks could have beaten champion Stanford, but their fortunes were dealt a serious blow when Christine Kalmer lost a shoe at the one-kilometer mark of the 6k women's race at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in Terre Haute.
	dailynews.runnersworld.com /2006/11 (16183 words)

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		Where did Cram beat Aouita by 4/100th in a 1500 m that saw the world record shattered in 1985 ?
		On what distance did he win a bronze medal in 1988 at Seoul ?
		During which season did Aouita win all his 21 races, from 800 m to 5000 m ?
	www.chez.com /knar/aouita_e.htm (128 words)

	World Track and Field Web Site:: Olympic Committee President to Bring "Eyes of the Sporting World" to Qatar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Football legends Pelé and Diego Maradona and "champion of champions" Hicham El Guerrouj have been named as participants in the event, which aims to showcase some of the world's leading sporting role models to student athletes.
		As a result, the grand opening is drawing international attention from major sporting bodies, representatives of which are planning to attend the event.
		Dr. Thomas Flock, Director General at ASPIRE, said: "Pierre de Coubertin, the genius behind the modern Olympic Games, coined the phrase 'All sports for all people' and our philosophy at ASPIRE is based upon the same key principles, aiming to extend access to our facilities to groups around the world."
	www.world-track.org /TrackSite/News/pressrealease=5903895.html.asp (561 words)

	MV Hicham El Guerrouj Training
		The team manager then was Said Aouita; among other things he told me was that they were going to win the race and he talked a lot about a young, skinny, and shy athlete named Hicham El Guerrouj.
		He said that this young man was going to become the best 1500m runner in history.
		He's strong-willed, ambitious, and believes he can run the 1500m under 3:24 [Note: when this was said in 1997 N. Morceli still had the 1500m WR].
	run-down.com /guests/mv_el_guerrouj.php (1340 words)

	The King Of The Mile :: Training (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Upon arrival at Tessaloniki airport we got on the same bus with the Morocco mens team, the team manager then was Said Aouita, among other things he told me was that they were going to win the race and talked a lot about a young skinny and shy athlete named Hicham El Guerrouj.
		He said that this young man was going to become the best 1500 runner in history.
		He's strong-willed, ambitious, and believes he can run the 1500 m under 3:24 [Note: when this was said in 1997 N. Morceli still had the 1500m WR].
	www.kingofthemile.com /training.html (1329 words)

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