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Athletics News - February 2008

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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Same training for Wariner, just a different guy holding the stopwatch

February 15th 2008 20:44
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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Next stop Valencia for ‘The Train’ after impressive win at trials.

February 12th 2008 20:34
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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Kallur sets new 60m Hurdles world record.

February 10th 2008 21:36
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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Maurice Greene announces retirement.

February 8th 2008 11:53
Maurice Greene
American sprint legend Maurice Greene has announced his retirement from the sport aged 33.

The self confessed G.O.A.T (Greatest Of All Time) has been plagued by injuries since the 2004 Olympic season


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Adidas delay release of new products

February 6th 2008 08:34
Adidas Powersprint 2
As Adidas athletes journey to Beijing to get to grips with the track that they hope will support them on their individual paths to Olympic glory their kit manufacturer has announced that many will be doing so in their old merchandise.

Sources suggest that Adidas will delay the sale of their new spike range until 2009, after the Beijing Olympics


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Chambers jumps through window of opportunity

February 4th 2008 13:17
Dwain Chambers
It is hard to imagine that when Christmas comes round UKA supremo Niels de Vos will be mailing any cards out to the IAAF.

This comes in light of the latest circus to surround British sprinter Dwain Chambers


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