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Gomes quietly sets 7.20m and beyond as her goal
12 November 2008 - Lisbon, Portugal - 2008 was an unforgettable year for Portugal’s Naide Gomes. Glory and disappointment joined hands. After the joy of winning the World Indoor title, Gomes missed the Olympic Long Jump final in Beijing, despite being the world season leader in the event.
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Danvers - Author, Artist, Athlete
11 November 2008 - Briton Tasha Danvers has juggled the roles of a mother, abstract artist, song writer, motivational speaker, fitness model and video blogger. Danvers can now add the title of Olympic 400m hurdle bronze medallist.
Paul Lekuraa, international marathon man of mystery
10 November 2008 - Athens, Greece - It’s a measure of just how many Kenyans are training away by themselves in solitary hope of an opportunity for glory, and how difficult it is to keep track of them, that when Paul Lekuraa won the Alpha Bank At...
Kanter – “I really believed one day I would be Olympic champion and it happened”
6 November 2008 – On the 19 August this year Gerd Kanter cemented his reputation as the world’s best discus thrower by adding the Olympic title in Beijing to the World crown that he had achieved the previous summer i...
Nothing Trivial about Thompson
5 November 2008 - Richard Thompson returned to serious training at his alma mater Louisiana State University on Monday determined to shake off his status of currently being an answer to a Trivial Pursuit question.
Hooker – if you said 4 years ago I would be Olympic champion in Beijing I would probably have laughed at you!
29 October 2008 – With the exception of breaking a World record you can’t ask much more of an athlete than to win a major global title with a championship record but Austra...
For Holzdeppe, 2008 witnessed high hopes and happy memories
28 October 2008 - Raphael Holzdeppe may have equalled the long-standing men's Pole Vault World junior record of 5.80m this summer but the German teenager isn't getting too carried away with speculation that he could finally be the man to...
The daughter of “Rocky from Bologna” begins to leave her mark on the track
27 October 2008 - Italian 800 metres runner Elisa Cusma seems gradually to be following in the footsteps of Gabriella Dorio, 1984 Olympic 1500m gold medallist.
'Attack, just attack' - Eight years on Taylor used same tactics to join historic ranks
22 October 2008 – By becoming in Beijing only the third two-time Olympic 400m Hurdles champion in history, Angelo Taylor secured his place among the event’s all-time greats. But the 29-year-old American veteran...
Olympic 1500m finalist Obrist, “lives his dream” and surprises Italy
21 October 2008 - Christian Obrist was the biggest surprise of Italian athletics in the 2008 season. The 27-year-old athlete from Bressanone became only the fifth Italian 1500 metres middle distance runner in history to reach th...
