A hearse bearing the flag-draped coffin of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona rolled through the streets of Buenos Aires Thursday as thousands of fans bade him a final farewell. The funeral cortege, surrounded by police motorcycle outriders, drove at high speed through the streets around the presidential palace, where thousands of fans had filed past Maradona's coffin since early morning. The cortege sped quickly onto a highway heading to the Jardin de Paz cemetery on the outskirts of the Argentine capital, where he was to be laid to rest in a private family ceremony. bur/db/bgs