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USA: ATHLETICS: American distance running champion Ryan Shay dies during U.S. Olympic marathon time trials

Ryan Hall won the U.S. Olympic trials for the marathon on Saturday (November 3) to claim a berth for the 2008 Beijing Games in a race marred by the death of distance champion Ryan Shay. The 28-year-old Shay, a four-times national champion on the roads, collapsed after passing the five-mile (8-km) mark of the race. He was taken to hospital by ambulance where he was pronounced dead, race officials said. Hall booked his place on the U.S. Olympic team with an emphatic victory, winning by more than two minutes with a time of two hours, nine minutes and two seconds over a multiple loop course through Central Park. The trials were held the day before the New York marathon is run through the streets of the city.

ITN Source | November 5, 2007Watch more videos from ITN Source

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