
Evans Cheruiyot of Kenya proved the fastest on Sunday, winning in 2 hours 6 minutes 25 seconds, and Lidiya Grigoryeva of Russia won the women’s race in 2:27:17.
China said Friday that an easing of restrictions on foreign journalists enacted for the Olympics would become permanent.

A former official who oversaw citywide construction projects for this year’s Olympic Games has been given a suspended death sentence in a case that involved bribery and lavish living.

In the New York City Marathon, Zola Budd Pieterse hopes to find something that eluded her through two Olympics, two world cross-country titles and a handful of world records contentment.

Marion Jones, appearing on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” said she believes she could have won her medals at the 2000 Olympics without performance-enhancing drugs.
Mr. Dubin was the Canadian judge who led a doping inquiry after Ben Johnson’s ouster from the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Battling recent stress fractures and a pair of Olympic disappointments, Paula Radcliffe of Britain won New York for the third time. Marilson Gomes dos Santos won the men’s race.
Coming off a disappointing Olympic games, Kara Goucher made her marathon debut with stunning success. She placing third among the women in 2:25:53.
As the world’s spotlight fell on Barack Obama, officials from Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 Olympics knew exactly what was at hand: the best free advertisement they could dream of.

Mr. James was a former champion runner who won gold and silver medals in the racially charged 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.