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  • Schipper secures Delhi Games spot (21 Mar 2010 10:45)

    ... (2:07.75) in a tight finish at Sydney Olympic Park. "Probably at 135m (mark) my breath ... the 31-year-old. "I had time off after Beijing (Olympics) and the fire was still in ... a bit of time with illness and injury and I still have something to prove ...

  • Canada Hopes Games Inspire Others to Try (21 Mar 2010 04:16)

    ... was disabled I couldn’t race in the Olympics, so I didn’t really have that dream,” ... with the aim of helping sick or injured military personnel through physical activity and sport. ... competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. “We are in the early stages of ...

  • TODAY'S WOMAN - Get steamy with Olympic great (17 Mar 2010 11:31)

    ... ripple. The adopted Sheffield son has an Olympic silver medal to prove he was one ... 2008, just before the call-up for the Beijing Olympics. "I had been pushing and pushing ... and has healed a body wracked by injuries. That was a tall order. A star ...

  • Hurdler Liu Xiang battles Achilles injury (video) (20 Mar 2010 00:14)

    ... serves as Liu Xiang’s coach. The former Olympic and world 110 metres hurdles champion returned ... first outing at that level since the Beijing Olympics. The Achilles injury that caused him to limp out of ...

  • Brownlee: Olympic glory can be a family affair (19 Mar 2010 15:12)

    ... which is a dress rehearsal on the Olympic course. And he could not help fast-forwarding ... the Hyde Park event. It is an injury which cannot be rushed and Brownlee is ... world champion in 2008. And at the Beijing Olympics he came 12th. So it was ...

  • Foster takes road less traveled (16 Mar 2010 12:53)

    ... aspires to run in the 2012 London Olympic games and said he believes he is ... MacFarlane get into form for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but Foster wasn't as lucky. Through ... for his freshman track season, a knee injury made any hope of running in the ...

  • Liu still loved in China but hurdles remain ahead (17 Mar 2010 10:31)

    ... men's heptathlon... Liu Xiang's road back from injury to the sort of world-beating performances that ... being a long, hard slog. The former Olympic and world 110 metres hurdles champion returned ... first outing at that level since the Beijing Olympics. The Achilles injury that caused him ...

  • Roo beauty (19 Mar 2010 12:12)

    ... Former Olympic finalist is gearing up for a big ... of his teens and now, over recent injury woes, Martyn Rooney is preparing for a ... unbeaten in 11 straight races before the Beijing Olympics; where at aged 21, he clocked ...

  • Scott defies pain to strike gold (19 Mar 2010 09:34)

    ... New Delhi despite suffering a painful foot injury on the morning of the competition. He ... 140/150 to lead a field containing an Olympic gold medalist and two world record holders ... Championships and represented Great Britain at the Beijing Olympics the same year, is a Grand ...

  • High flying Hooker to set Gift alight (19 Mar 2010 03:33)

    ... High flying Hooker to set Gift alight Olympic gold, check - Commonwealth gold, check - ... wins at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, 2009 IAAF World Athletics Championships ... most extraordinary circumstances given a severe hip injury, so it would be foolhardy to suggest ...

  • There is method to Gillick's seeming madness (20 Mar 2010 15:21)

    ... declared Percy Cerutty, trainer of several Australian Olympic medallists. Behind all the best athletes there's ... only been back to full training, after injury, for a few weeks. But two years ... Fagan ran 2:14.06 to qualify for the Beijing Olympics - and that was the first ...

  • Jones on comeback trail in time for Commonwealths (20 Mar 2010 03:37)

    ... was all set to go to the Beijing Olympics in 2008 along with Notts Gym Club ... known as the 'Beam Queen' before her injury and it is a title she hopes ...

  • Musialik's been there, won that (16 Mar 2010 03:39)

    ... had come off the high of the Beijing Olympics, and although he started in 19 games ... the Jets in round seven after an injury to McFlynn. Sydney won 2-1 and Musialik ...

  • Whats happened to Pakistan hockey (17 Mar 2010 05:26)

    ... 1971, 1978, 1982, 1994. Pakistan as Olympic Gold Medallists 1960, 1968 and 1984. ... having won the Silver Medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, a semi-finals in Athens ... Australia at half pace not wanting any injury leading up to the semi-finals, tossed Pakistan ...

  • Attard returns to roots of Hockeyroo career (17 Mar 2010 16:32)

    ... also be a golden chance for Attard to test out her knee which she injured at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Attard made her return late last year and now wants to return to top ...

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