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With hip injury beaten, Kiprop focuses in on Amman and Berlin
6 January 2009 - Uganda’s Commonwealth 10,000m champion Boniface Kiprop hopes 2009 will finally be the year he climbs a major championship medal podium on the global senior stage after a series of finishes in that most unwelcome and cruel fourth position.
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7000 points is a realistic target for self confident Dobrynska
5 January 2009 – Prior to last summer’s Olympic Games, Natalya Dobrynska hadn’t won a single major international multi-event competition. Indeed, heading to Beijing, her modest accomplishments kept her well off the radar screen as a pote...
Harper no longer an unknown in 100m Hurdles
28 December 2008 - Los Angeles, USA - The secret is out about Dawn Harper in the women’s 100m Hurdles. Harper’s victory in a PB 12.54 in the Beijing Olympics has been called a surprise and an upset. The American, though, has a different outlook.
Costa aiming to follow the footsteps of success
20 December 2008 - When Brazilian Maurren Maggi won the Olympic Long Jump title in Beijing it was an historic moment for athletics in the South American region. The 32-year-old from São Carlos became her country’s first ever female Olympic champion,...
Volleyballing Falzon is hardly your ordinary hammer thrower!
18 December 2008 - French female throwers had distinguished results in 2008, with two Olympic finalists: Manuèla Montebrun at Hammer Throw and Mélina Robert-Michon at Discus Throw. A remarkable feat in a country where throws had not bee...
World and Olympic finalist de Lima is steadily working his way to the top
16 December 2008 - Brazilian athletics has always produced good jumpers, but the tradition was only been in the horizontal disciplines. Very well known are the names of champions such as Adhemar Ferreira da Silva (Triple), ...
Pumped-up McLellan, competitive at everything, hates training with a passion
10 December 2008 - Sally McLellan's post race interview in Beijing would go down as one of her most engaging performances ever. "Did you see me?" she excitedly asked millions of Australians watching at home, while she ...
Higuero confident of sub 3:30 and Berlin medal chances
9 December 2008 - Spain’s top-miler Juan Carlos Higuero, the 2007 European Indoor champion, enjoyed his most successful season ever on the international scene in 2008. After grabbing the World 1500m indoor bronze on home soil in Valencia last...
Raúl Spank aiming at Berlin glory on the road to London 2012
8 December 2008 - The men’s and women’s High Jump competitions provided major surprises at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Not only did Tia Hellebaut beat Blanca Vlasic but would have thought of Britain’s Germaine Mason taking silver?
Shaheen - “Injury, what you make out of it eventually makes the difference between a comeback and oblivion”
27 November 2008 - Eldoret, Kenya - After nearly two years out of competitive athletics with only a few recovery races earlier this year, some of which he never finished, Qatar's ...
