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Mon 08 Aug 2008Brilliant Bekele lays double claim to mantle of greatest
ATHLETICS:THAT THE track and field show of the 29th Olympiad ended with some of us still debating which athlete had given the ultimate performance was a sure sign we'd been spoilt. Then again, perhaps we were just trying to distract ourselves from what happened to Alistair Cragg.
Of all the depressing ways to end your Olympics, a DNF - as in Did Not Finish - next to your name is the most painful and crippling. That it happened on the last day of track in Beijing with the last real Irish hope and to a man who had encountered such emotion in getting there was the ultimate blow.
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