lements."
Last night it appeared the IAAF would honour the High Court decision. An
IAAF spokesman said: "As a principle, we are against any interference in our
right to set the rules for the sport around the world, but this is not a big
surprise. This is a decision of the England court and only valid in British
territory."
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e the most of the world-class field, which
includes Russia's Olga Raspopava, who ran 1:56.60 last week.
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outh City
Walkers, 50km walk) and Marian Sutton (Westbury Harriers, marathon).
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is hoping to compete in the
shot, discus and 4 x 400 metres relay.
His coach, Greg Richards, said: "Despite all the problems, Dean is shaping
up nicely. He might not throw a javelin in anger until the Olympics."
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rate on becoming a bobsleigh champion
at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
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you ask of her? Well she could have defected to Britain, but then
that would have spoiled our guessing games.
Steve Cram is a spokesperson for Norwich Union, sponsors of UK Athletics
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ut crowd of 16,500 can look
forward to some fascinating head-to-head contests with the Olympic Games
just seven weeks away.
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ar Michael
Edwards, the British pole vaulter, whose positive drugs test was overturned.
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slo July 27, 1985
3-44.39 Noureddine Morceli (Algeria) Rieti Sept 5, 1993
3-43.13 Hicham El Guerrouj (Morocco) Rome July 7, 1999
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the world record could be
back in sight.
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, politically, it
would be too much of a hot potato.
"The trials are, by and large, unnecessary for athletes who have proven
themselves over a number of years and will probably bring back the medals."
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ee blokes go out and run a blinder at the weekend that could be
curtains for me but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it's my time for
some good luck."
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athletics federation had announced its opposition to
Cuban-born Montalvo competing at the Games.
Montalvo won her world title in Seville last year in front of her adopted
home supporters after marrying a Spaniard in early 1998, bringing about
naturalization on May 5 last year.
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n Zurich tonight. The Golden League meeting also sees the return
to action of Maurice Greene. The 100m world record holder and world champion
runs his first race since he broke down with injury during his ill-fated
race against Michael Johnson over 200m at last month's US trials.
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he
Jubilee Cup for clubs in Bedford.
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ends to begin his
Olympic countdown by competing in Montauban, France, on Tuesday. From there
to Sydney, he will be watched with considerable interest
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ot;They didn't want to go. Many of them were in tears when they left. We will
miss them," said hotel owner Jose Martin, whose hotel is decorated with
dozens of photographs, autographs and memorabilia.
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r coach, but is
clearly thrilled at his progress. Jones's initial target was the 2002
Commonwealth Games in Manchester, but Watford has changed all that.
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w clear for Gardener, seventh at last year's World
Championships, to be confirmed in the team.
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meeting.
Walker appeared before the panel yesterday. He said: "All that's happened is
that there's been opposing arguments. They are willing to listen and that's
all we can ask for."
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r cocaine at the
Pan-American Games in Winnipeg, Canada, last August. The punishment was
halved on humanitarian grounds by the IAAF on Aug 2.
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y (Southend).4 x 400m:
Curbishley, N Danvers (Shaftesbury Barnet), S Dudgeon (Edinburgh Woollen
Mills), Fraser, H Frost (Birchfield), K Merry.
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vians were on an equal footing to begin with.
"No one would believe that an Olympic athlete has to train on a muddy
running track, logged with water, using trainers with holes in them. But I
do and I'm not alone."
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ip in Sydney
with her second throw - 63.59m - but broke down on her next attempt.
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athlete. But you must fulfil the law."
And so to Sydney. Sotomayor may well get a gold medal. Unless there is a
breakthrough in the next few days, Montalvo will get as far from the Games
as possible. The sad conclusion is that they are both headed in the wrong
direction.
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nitially received by the IAAF's medical commission, whose chairman, Dr Arne
Ljung- qvist, described them as "irrelevant" and "not valid". Prof Maughan
has since been back to the laboratory to strengthen the evidence.
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ikolenko (Russia) 62.22m; 2, S Bisset (Cuba) 60.90.
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well-known sporting figures who presented
trophies and supported the games, said: "The event has been a big success
and everyone agrees that we should build on and develop this for the
future."
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tors who have no conception of what it's all about."
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ter him
but I would prefer the Trinidad government to do something really grand in
my name.
"I'd like them to build maybe three or four tracks with indoor facilities
for the kids to enjoy. . . and I'd like Tobago."
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compete in the world championships," she
said. "You can blame the Spanish federation, I'm coming back again. Then I
might chill out, have a baby and then, if I have the motivation, come back.
I see girls of 35, 36 coming back and I think 'Hmmm'. It's impossible to
imagine retiring. Long jump is second nature to me."
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aw in New South
Wales prevents him working at any state-owned facility in or around Sydney.
A similar law applies throughout the country.
The ban may also affect Christie away from the track. He has already lost
his lucrative contract with Puma and yesterday was informed by the BBC that
they would not be using him as a summariser during the Games.
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in Brussels tomorrow after a disagreement with
organisers.
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stole
one of his bags containing £3,500 worth of personal belongings from a van.
Canadian high jumper Mark Boswell suffered a bad start to his campaign when
he lost his wallet containing more than $7,000 (£5,000) cash at Brisbane
Airport.
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et to meet on the track. That pleasure awaits them. And
Australia.
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rced to abandon their white-water and rafting sessions, while in the main
press center a staff area housing 200 volunteers was evacuated.
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to go down with the captain, pressurize the
Germans into panicking?
I was once an athlete aspiring to Olympic participation, and I did not feel
alone in thinking that reason had departed from these Games.
Events in Munich are recalled in 'One Day in September' on BBC2 at 9 pm
tonight.
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he world champion in the 200-meter individual medley,
failed a drug test at the Chinese national championships and was banned for
four years.
`For the purpose of their health and to protect the principles of fair
competition, all these athletes were disqualified from competitions'
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tired.
Zatopek's finest achievements came at the 1952 Helsinki Games, when he won
the 5,000 and 10,000 metres plus the marathon in the space of eight days,
each in Olympic record time.
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officials seized human growth
hormone from Sergei Voymov, a coach of the Uzbekistan team.
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n One Night in
September, that excellent documentary about the massacre of 11 Israeli
athletes in Munich in 1972, the German government of that time were almost
certainly complicit in helping two of the captured terrorists to escape. At
the Games the noble and the nefarious have a lane each. The Olympic blood
will take some rinsing.
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he Olympic charter. Around 50 francophone nations are
taking part in the games and the French language must be present at the
opening."
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the old problems just vanish. Such an idea, given the nature of
modern sports, was always an illusion and the Australian government may have
done much to expose it.
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ville last year.
"Colin's major asset is that he can compete well. We do not worry about his
rivals, we just get on with it. He will have four races in Sydney and I
believe the last of those will see him crowned Olympic champion."
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Dobos were given two-year drug
bans yesterday by the IAAF, world governing body.
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ind of
thing.
"But Team Linford does its own thing. We love it at Couran Cove but we are
not hiding. Linford has developed us over the years to be exactly the way he
is. We are extremely strong individually and loyal as a group."
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success
in recent months was at the Oslo Golden League meeting, will travel to
Sydney on Wednesday for a week of intense pre-Games training.
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dal. There is a certificate for the world record but she
doesn't understand how quick that is."
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evening prior to the day of competition," IOC
medical commission chief Patrick Schamasch said.
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that was drawn
up, has been betrayed."
Edwards, who said he was given no chance to vet the copy before it was
published on the website, said his association with the site had now ended.
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BONDI BEACH protesters plan to use sun-reflecting mirrors to disrupt
television coverage of the Olympic beach volleyball event. Residents are
angered by a 10,000-seat stand set up on the sand.
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ld have
jumped for Ireland," says Brendan, "and wondering what I could have done for
Irish athletics. People are saying it's an easy option but it's not that at
all.
"I'm very typical second generation anyway, born in England but very Irish
in a lot of things so I always had t
will go out there and give it
everything, whatever it takes."
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letes who beat her at the trials did not
meet their standards in training.
"If any of them turn up in worse shape than at the trials we have the right
to replace them," Ulett said.
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the IAAF arbitration panel, a decision which the IAAF
president, Lamine Diack, later described as "a mistake". - AFP
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ingapore, the
chairman, South African Monty Hacker, and Conny Jorneklint, from Sweden. The
panel are expected to deliver their judgment in time for the IAAF Council
meeting here on Tuesday.
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rday, when
Lewis's comments dragged the fallen Briton back onto centre stage.
Though banned from officially accredited Olympic areas, Christie is likely
to watch from the stands when his athletes perform in the coming week. That
way, at least, we will catch his face on television a little more.
Eam
and I want to be that kind of coach. Maurice
can channel his energy. We feed off each other."
The kingmaker and the king. Except that Sydney may not just be Greene's
Olympic coronation. It could also be Smith's.
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a seven-minute break into its programming. The network has
scheduled 10 such seven-minute breaks and one of them is the final of the
women's 400 metres.
Will Perec's persecution never end. It was bad enough being a puppet, but no
onedeserves to be a dill pickle filler between Homer Simp
although
a lot of testing is being done, a lot of athletes can't be found and no one
seems to know where they are so they can't be tested.
"I think the IOC are taking some steps towards improvement but they are just
PR moves. We still haven't really addressed the problem, that there are 60
or 70 drugs that are still not tested for yet."
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per cent fit because of the
Achilles tendon injury which has plagued him all season.
At least he will not have to contend with Morocco's former world
record-holder, Salah Hissou. The 1996 bronze medallist is out of the Games
with an ankle injury.
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There's this big jelly being filled with colour and noise around you. All I
see is the lane ahead of me. The starting blocks. It's something you
experience only in an Olympic race." On that track, in that 'jelly', Freeman
and Perec will be reunited at last.
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d to
be over but she recovered and returned to the track. Now she is running
again, though not in the way she intended.
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has already got 25,000 pieces of
mail.
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which the American federation decide to deal with
themselves and not tell us about."
Craig Masback, the chief executive of USTF, said he had heard the suggestion
of 17 unreported cases from last year. "That's preposterous. It could be
down to clerical error," he said.
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uot;I didn't realise what would happen," she says. "I had no idea the story
would reach so many people." It will surely soon reach many more.
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March.
Lidia Simon of Romania is Europe's best hope of taking the title after a
splendid 2:22.54 run in January. The feeling persists, however, that if
Loroupe, only seventh on the list of the year's best times, gets it right in
the middle stages she will go on to win.
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fected by a virus, she dropped off the pace before half way to fade to
13th in 15.49.58.
But for O'Sullivan, reborn on a day when she so urgently wanted to do well,
all is set fair for the big event on Monday.
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have everything," she said earlier this
year, expressing a frightening thought for a 24-yearold. "I would have all
the medals. What else could I ask for but good health."
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;We probably won't sleep
for a day or so, we're so jigged up."
But the intention had been for Drummond to bring the third of the medals
home too. That would have completed Greene's party.
It is maybe reassuring that Greene does not have complete control over the
100m. He can decide t
Jamaica's Lorraine Graham may present a challenge, though
Britain's Katharine Merry, impressive in the opening two heats, will be
among another group contesting the silver and bronze.
Boyle believes that "the only person who can beat Cathy is Cathy herself".
A nation holds its breath.
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She may not be there just yet but her progress is remarkable for a girl who
grew from tomboy to athlete and who says: "Right now, at 24, I think I can
do what I say I can do."
She wore silver shoes in her race and she came away clutching gold. Much
more awaits.
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favourite Jonathan Edwards (17.08m).
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in the subject matter for the remainder of the Games.
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- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: t-and-f: 'Mere mortals' see Greene join gods
There's nothing like waiting 16
e" and has criticised Anna Kournikova, the Russian
tennis player, for presenting the wrong image of women in sport.
"She doesn't do women much good because she hasn't won anything yet," said
Lewis. "I have had a lot of attention but it came after my success. You must
win titles otherwise you are seen as babe first and sportswoman second."
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s for the 5,000 metres will be presented by Dr Pat Hickey,
Ireland's member of the International Olympic Committee.
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involved in this sport. I want it to continue for at least four more years.
By Denise Lewis
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she
said tartly.
Stories were told, guts were spilled, tears were shed, and the light cast by
the glory of Freeman and Johnson in their pomp irradiated the watching
scalp-hunters. They weren't all lucky.
"Michael...Michael...MICHAEL!" one desperado screamed as his serene highness
passed. He turned without pausing, his flag-bearer following, and said "Hi!"
Not much of a quote really, is it?
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n, the head
coach of the American team, said the controversy would undoubtedly disrupt
her preparations. "It's always distracting when this happens," he said.
Istvan Gyulai, the secretary-general of the IAAF, also said he felt sorry
for Jones. "I personally regret that such news is
sappointments deeply.
"I didn't want us to face another one together, especially after what we
have been through recently."
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ls. I am
happy. I don't think many people have achieved what I have done."
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Trivia time.
Go easy on the walkers. Not the fastest moving sport in the world, but they
are moving forwards. I can think of three sports (incl. 2 Olympic sports)
where the winners go backwards.
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Dear Dick,
Glad to hear that the official qualifying standard for an NBC olympic spot
has been raised to a life threatening illness. Is there also a B standard of
"feeling under the weather" for countries that suffer with good health?
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- Origin
lysing blood samples.
So far, despite three weeks of testing for EPO, there have been no
positives, the positives at these Games coming from urine tests.
Prince de Merode told me: "We have had some difficulties with the substances
needed to analyse the blood. But the system is now working and, who knows,
we may get some EPO positives before the Games are over."
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cuit.
The pair became close friends and Fraser was the first to comfort Freeman
after their race on Monday. "Cathy helped give me self-belief. She made me
realise I could do it," said Fraser.
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g leap we heard earlier" . . . "this unknown
Mexican who comes from a family of five famous boxers" . . . "the pace is
really accelerating, which means it's getting faster all the time . . . "
So G'day mate, and thank heavens for the BBC.
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rforming five victory laps of the circuit while Coe was actually running a
world record time in the 800 metres.
Then the clock changed its mind, correcting itself to 10.11sec. The crowd
booed in disgust and, when Coe's time was displayed as an epoch-making 1min
41sec, they all jeered "Oh yeah?" and went home.
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he 200m and popped my first long jump. I'm pleased with that."
On her face was an unforced smile that was the product of either
blamelessness or denial. She was wrong about one thing. Her toughest days
are still to come.
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Czech Republic,
was struggling in seventh place. Said Macey: "I should win a medal but Erki
deserves the gold more than me. I'm young and I'm going to win the next
two."
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in 10.38sec to go through into today's semi-finals.
John Mayock, a qualifier for the men's 1500m final, also quoted Holmes as an
inspiration. "What Kelly did was amazing and I want to do the same," he
said.
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of the modern Games.
The experts in their commentary points sat crouched behind their television
monitors and screeched their incredulity. Olympians like Steve Cram, Brendan
Foster and Spaniard Jose Abascal looked on beside them. Their faces were a
picture of disbelief and a pained sorrow.
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month she will return to action in Chile for the
World Junior Championships. "I hope I can win - it would be embarrassing for
the Olympic champion to lose there," she said.
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me of your moment
of history is a burden in itself. To dominate in the intervening years is
irrelevant. The beauty of the Olympics is that anything can happen and often
does.
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Rome 1960 had the
distinction of being the first to be televised, Mexico 1968 were the first
in colour, Los Angeles in 1984 was all glitz and showbusiness, Barcelona
1988 was majestic - but Sydney 2000 had that extra magic which Australia
offers: a friendly welcome that makes one feel at home.
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assed here was less an examination of her athletic
abilities and more a test of character.
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led
home in the last of the track and field events late last night.
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I could have run faster if I hadn't used such
tactics. Trying to win the race probably cost me a medal. Who remembers who
came fourth."
Only the 100,000 at the stadium and the billions who watched the race on
television will remember. In four years time more people will recall her
performance than t
wrote her off thereafter, but her comeback here has been so
heart-warming that it is easy to see why Edwards so quickly picked her as
the British athlete of these Games.
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to finally take it," said the former world champion. "You
get a taste for the gold medal when you have tried for so long."
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e sample is taken at
the ideal time after the intake."
Of the four tests, two were out-of-competition tests, the other two were
taken after competing in the Bislett Games in Oslo in July and the
Weltklasse meeting in Zurich in August. All four were positive, showing
varying levels of nandrolone.
"The varying levels of nandrolone reflect, from a scientific point of view,
an oral intake of a nandrolone precursor."
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