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American Marines Who Thwarted Paris Train Attack Tells Their Story

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                              Spencer Stone (from left), Anthony Sadler, and Alek Skarlatos helped tackle a gunman aboard a high-speed train. Stone, Skarlatos and Sadler were traveling together when they heard shattering glass and saw people running, Skarlatos' brother Peter said. Sadler, on his first trip to Europe, said they acted right away.                       "My friend Alek Skarlatos yells, 'Get him!,' so my friend Spencer Stone immediately gets up to charge the guy, followed by Alek, then myself," Sadler said. "The three of us beat up the guy," Sadler said. "In the process, Spencer gets slashed multiple times by the box cutter, and Alek takes the AK away." Spencer suffered cuts to his head and neck, and his thumb was almost cut off, Norman said. Skarlatos, who joined his friends on vacation after returning from Afghanistan, seized the rifle and hit the suspect in the head with the muzzle. Norman and S

Usain Bolt Runs Best Ever Race To Beat Justin Gatlin To Win World 100m Title

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Bolt Has Now won 9 World Titles. Three Golds In The 100M, Three In 200M, Three In Sprint Relays Usain Bolt produced perhaps his greatest performance of all as he put a troubled build-up behind him to beat two-time doper and clear favourite Justin Gatlin to retain his world 100m title.  The controversial Gatlin came into the final on a 28-race unbeaten run and apparently relishing his role as the sport's bad guy. But at the same Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing where Bolt announced himself to the world with two Olympic golds and two world records in 2008, the Jamaican superstar came past a faltering Gatlin at the death to snatch victory by one hundredth of a second.  Bolt's 9.79 seconds was more than two tenths off his world record, but this was a night for athletics to celebrate victories rather than times.  Canada's Andre de Grasse and young American Trayvon Bromell were