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Don’t place training above competing


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The round up of March Madness.

April 6th 2008 15:17
So it's been a while since the last article so here is a quick summary of the stories making the headlines since i've been gone.

Dayron Robles of Cuba contrived to eliminate himself from the 60m hurdles competition at the world indoors, upon main rival Liu Xiang executing a near perfect start Robles thought it was a false start and slowed down, expecting a second gun to go


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World Indoors Day 1

March 8th 2008 14:13
As the final event of the evening was announced over the public address system and the men of the 60m world championship final settled into their blocks, an expectant hush fell over the crowd.

In lane 2 2003 100m world champion Kim Collins aimed to go one better than the Silver he claimed in 2003, the last time he ran indoors


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Otis Gowa is no stranger to coming through tough situations.

In 2005 he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a disease that he successfully beat though surgery, returning to training last March


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Ten to follow at the world indoors

February 27th 2008 19:32
Susanna Kallur
Susanna Kallur (SWE) – The new world record holder could very well become the star of the championships if she can reproduce the form that has seen her leave all her competitors for dead in recent weeks. Competition for the gold medal (if any) may well come from American Lolo Jones (7.77) but the title appears to be Kallur’s to lose.

Dayron Robles
Dayron Robles (CUB) – The young Cuban may have the fastest time this year (7.33) and be a mere 3 hundredths away from Colin Jackson’s world record but he will have strong competition in the form of China’s Liu Xiang who is looking to lay down a marker ahead of the Olympics being held in his homeland


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Who Was Flo Jo?

February 25th 2008 00:08
Florence Griffith Joyner
Florence Griffith Joyner was born in Los Angeles projects on the 21st December 1959 but it would be 28 years later in the Olympic heat of Seoul that the legend of ‘Flo-Jo’ was born.

Instantly recognisable with her flashy one-legged running outfits, long hair, and brightly painted fingernails, the American took gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m as well as silver in the 4x400m relay


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Weekend Round-up

February 19th 2008 16:15
Yelena Isinbayeva
Yelena Isinbayeva claimed yet another world record in the pole vault to cap a marvellous weekend of action across the globe.

The Russian soared to a mark of 4.95m to add 2cm to her own record in Donetsk, Ukraine in her first competition of the year


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Jeremy Wariner
Jeremy Wariner, the man with Michael Johnson’s 400m world record firmly within his sights this year as left long time Coach Clyde Hart.

Hart, the man behind Wariner’s rise to the top had worked with the Texan for the past five years


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Dwain Chambers
Dwain Chambers has been named in the Great Britain squad for the world indoor championships being held in Valencia, Spain next month.

The announcement comes after Chambers dominated the British trials, beating established names such as Craig Pickering and Simeon Williamson en route to a 6.56 60m clocking that ranks him 5th in the world


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Susanna Kallur
In speeding her way to a 7.68s 60m hurdle victory at the BW-Bank meeting in Karlsruhe Susanna Kallur eclipsed one of the oldest world records the sport has known.

Set back in 1990 by the Soviet Union’s Ludmila Narozhilenko, 7.69s had stood since Kallur was just nine years old


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