The men's marathon closes down the athletics: that starts at 9.30am.
At a marathon closing plenary session, the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity agreed to an ambitious plan to halt the loss of biodiversity, an agreement to combat biopiracy, a scheme to increase conservation funding, and a raft of related policy statements.
It can't have helped to settle a nervous and new-look Aussie team, most of whom are in the middle of a marathon close season.
Miguel Gutierrez and Erin Cornell opened the first hour of the all-day marathon that closed the series.
The marathon will close the festivities today, and the athletes will converge on Stadium Australia for one last celebration.
Per tradition, the men's marathon will help close out this year's Olympic Games.
(Brantley)20110624 Marathon 2011, Series B (closes on Saturday) The Ensemble Studio Theater has stacked the best of this year's crop of new one-act plays into the second salvo of its annual showcase, which features some especially memorable female characters.
GREENBURGH - THE last leg in the marathon effort to close Indian Point, the nuclear-plant-that-probably-won't, revved up Tuesday night with about 175 people gathered at the town hall here.
Why they would have launched the attack, and whether they did so on their own or with help, remains unclear, although suspicion will immediately fall on Islamic terror groups based in Chechnya.The twin bombings, near the finish line of the Boston marathon in the closing stages of the race, killed three people: an eight-year-old boy and two young women.
Right now I'm in Los Angeles, attending warm-up events and putting some final finesse on my picks, but with the California legislature in marathon sessions to close a huge budget gap, grim realities are casting a bit of a pall here in Oscarland.
