By DONNA SPENCER -- Canadian Press  SYDNEY -- Carol Montgomery had convinced herself for the past week that a painful crash in the Olympic triathlon on the first day of the Games would not prevent her from running the 10,000 metres on Wednesday.
 But she was wrong. After a 7:30 run on Wednesday morning, in which she tried running 200-metre intervals at race pace, she realized she had been kidding herself. Montgomery pulled out of her 10,000-metre heat.
 "I'm a lot more depressed today than I was after the crash on the bike," Montgomery said Thursday. "I thought I was going to be able to run. I think I wanted to so bad was trying to convince myself. I kept thinking 'I can do this, I can do this."'

By DAVE FULLER -- Toronto Sun  SYDNEY -- Vancouver's Carol Montgomery will leave the Olympics without a medal but her courageous story will remain one of the most memorable moments for Canadians.
 Montgomery, her back still stiff from a horrific crash 11 days ago during the women's triathlon, pulled out of last night's women's 10,000-metre heats shortly before her start time.

By DAVE FULLER -- Toronto Sun   SYDNEY -- It wasn't a hungry shark that wrecked Carol Montgomery's Olympic triathlon, but it felt like one.
 Montgomery -- the first Canadian woman to qualify in two sports at the same Olympic Games -- was released from hospital yesterday with a sprained wrist, a deep gash in her hip and a body scrape from her neck to the top of her left ankle.