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new york celebrates the giants' super bowl success... also in the big apple, we drop in on the millrose games... and former olympic and world 100-metre champion maurice greene announces his retirement. nfl celebrations the were wild celebrations in new york on sunday night after the giants won super bowl xlii (42). new yorkers gathered at sports bars to watch the game and then poured into times square after the underdogs had beaten the favourites, the new england patriots, who were aiming to become the first nfl team to go through a whole season with a perfect record - 19 wins and no defeats. but eli manning, the giants' quarterback, engineered one of the best drives in super bowl history to help the giants end the patriots' dream with a 17-14 victory. soundbite: (english) "i got so many people that told me they wasn't going to do it and i kept telling them we're going to do it, dog, we're going to do it. it's in the stars, i kept telling them, it's in the stars. it was meant to go 18-0 so we could take them out in the super bowl, baby." supercaption: ledon caldwell, new york resident. soundbite: (english) "eli manning for president, eli manning for president, man." supercaption: koen bongdrs, tourist from the netherlands soundbite: (english) "that was the tightest played game i ever seen but in my heart i knew the giants was going to take it, that's what we did, we brought it back to new york, baby." supercaption: val celient, new york resident. soundbite: (english) "you got to believe in your team, man, that's the only way you're going to win, you got to believe in your team." super caption: corey galotza, new york resident. the victory was new york's third super bowl success after wins in 1987 and 1991. athletics millrose the millrose games, america's longest running invitational indoor track-and-field meet, was held at madison square garden in new york on friday night. in the women's mile, kara goucher held off the challenge of sara hall to win by eight hundredths of a second. antwon hicks recorded a winning time of 7.53 seconds to capture the men's 60-metres hurdles. in the women's 60-metres, carmelita jeter, the world championship bronze medallist over 100 metres, beat miki barber by the narrowest of margins, just one hundredth of a second. the men's 60 metres was won by leonard scott in a time of 6.59 seconds. american record-holder jenn stuczynski was upset in the women's pole vault by jillian schwartz. both cleared 4.63 metres, but schwartz had won on account of having had more clean jumps. in the main event, bernard lagat was victorious in the wanamaker mile for the sixth time. the kenyan-born american sped to the front and easily held off australian craig mottram to win in three minutes, 57.51 seconds. lagat said he will return next year to challenge ireland's eamonn coghlan's record of seven victories in the wanamaker mile. athletics greene former olympic and world 100 metres champion maurice greene announced his retirement from athletics on monday. the 33-year-old american, who also held the 100 metres world record of 9.79 seconds for more than three years, said a calf injury sustained in training last month had convinced him to end his career. soundbite: (english) "yeah, it is a little sad for me, but it's happy at the same time because i had a great career, i have done a lot of great things and my main thing is if i am able to train like i need to without giving injuries or anything else i would keep on going. but for the last couple of years, i have been having little nagging injuries that stops my training and it doesn't allow me to keep training like i need to be in the best physical shape to compete and do the things that i like to do. so i think it is better to call it quits." supercaption: maurice greene. greene ran the 100 metres in less than 10 seconds a record 52 times and won four olympic medals and five world championship golds.