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Holmes' golden joy

AFP, Athens
Britain's Kelly Holmes and Jeremy Wariner of the United States proved in devastating style on Monday that age is no barrier when it
comes to securing places in the Olympic Games pantheon of champions.
Holmes, 34, triumphed in the 800 metres on the track where seven years ago she limped tearfully out of the world championships.
Meanwhile, 20-year-old Wariner won the 400m to succeed his hero and mentor Michael Johnson as champion.
Wariner may not, however, finish these Games as the youngest winner from the United States as Allyson Felix, just 18, eased home in her two heats of the women's 200m.
She then insisted that she and her teammates were under an obligation to rescue American sprinting which has been rocked by a series of doping
scandals.
Another youngster, Meserat Defar, also showed the way as the 20-year-old Ethiopian won the women's 5,000m title while older legs found it too tough with Edith Masai, 35, not even finishing.
Ireland's Sonia O'Sullivan, a former world, European and world cross country champion also discovered that at the age of 34 her legs could no longer last the pace and she was lapped in a sad end to a stellar career.
Greece, still reeling from the Kostadinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou scandal, at last had a day to remember as they collected their first title in the shape of 20km walker Athanasia Tsoumeleka.
Holmes though was the most emotional winner of the night as she overhauled training partner, and 2000 champion Maria Mutola, down the stretch to take the title.
She had to look at the screen twice before realising she had at last clinched a global title.
"I can't believe it, I am totally shocked," said Holmes, who won
bronze in the 800m in the 2000 Games.
"I've been through so many ups and downs in my career. I've always thought the Olympics were the biggest thing and I used to think about it while I ran round the village aged 12 and now here I am."
Wariner looked like a seasoned veteran rather a rookie.
But he adopted the same ducklike running style of Michael Johnson and took control on the final bend in the 400 metres to lead home a 1-2-3 for the US.
It was the first cleansweep of Olympic athletics medals since the Kenyan steeplechasers in 1992.
"Apart from being born, this is the greatest moment of my life," said Wariner.
"I don't feel emotional right now. It is probably going to hit me in a couple of days."
Felix was joined in the semi-finals by teammates Muna Lee and La Shauntea Moore, who replaced the banned Torri Edwards.
The teenager said she hoped to
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open up a new chapter for American sprinting which has been mired in recent drug controversies with Kelli White and Edwards both banned and with Marion Jones battling suspicion.
"We are happy to be a new wave here. We want people to see positive things about track and field," said Felix.
Talk of a new young generation in terms of competing at the top will have to be delayed while 44-year-old Merlene Ottey is still around as the sprinting great reached the semis just as she had in the 100m.
Greece's joy at a gold medal may have been slightly tempered by how their heroine had reached for inspiration.
Tsoumeleka said that 2000 Olympic 200m champion Kostadinos Kenteris and 100m women's silver medallist Thanou had been an inspiration for her.
"What happened with Kenteris and Thanou only made me stronger, especially Thanou who is from Preveza, just like me," said the 22-year-old.