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Updated: 11:10 PM Aug 21, 2008
Pirate Finds Gold In Beijing Olympics
Former ECU sprinter LaShawn Merritt defeats rival Jeremy Wariner to win gold in the 400 meters.
Posted: 9:50 AM Aug 21, 2008 |
LaShawn Merritt (AP)
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Beijing - LaShawn Merritt backed his talk with the run of a lifetime Thursday morning, defeating rival and world champion Jeremy Wariner to win gold in the 400 meters.
Merritt and Wariner split their last four events in head-to-head competition but it would be the former ECU Pirate who would stand tall in the biggest run of his life.
Merritt took gold with a personal-best time of 43.75 seconds. Wariner, the silver medalist, was nearly a second back at 44.74.
David Neville dove across the finish line to complete a U.S. sweep.
"I felt good in the semis," Wariner said. "My final wasn't that good of a race. I don't know what's happening right now"
"This is the greatest moment of my career" a winded Merritt would say.
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