By Mike Rowbottom in Sheffield 14 February 2005
Britain's Olympic medallists Jason Gardener and Kelly Sotherton stated their continuing ambition here yesterday, while for the triple jumper Phillips Idowu, the long jumper Nathan Morgan and the pole vaulter Janine Whitlock, the Norwich Union European trials and AAA Championships offered an opportunity for old ambitions to be revived. Gardener went to his blocks in the 60m final as an ex-European record-holder, thanks to Ronald Pognan's performance at Karlruhe earlier in the afternoon - the Frenchman took one hundredth of a second off the mark of 6.46sec which the Briton set on the same swift German track last year. Things did not go entirely smoothly for the 29-year-old Olympic relay gold medallist on home territory, either, as he was pushed all the way to the line by Mark Findlay, who finished one hundredth of a second behind him in a personal best of 6.61sec. http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/story.jsp?story=610820
