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South Africa’s Hestrie Cloete won her nation’s only gold medal of the championships after clearing heights of 1.85, 1.90, 1.94 and 1.97 meters on consecutive jumps and then two meters on her second try. Ukraine’s 34-year-old champion Inha Babakova matched Cloete’s performance at two meters but was left with silver because she needed two attempts at 1.97 meters. Sweden’s Kajsa Bergqvist, the 2001 IAAF indoor champion whose peak performance was 1.97 meters on the day, earned the bronze...
...rested on whether fewer than 12 athletes would clear at 1.91 and reach the final. Fortunately for her only 10 did, and since she had been flawless at 1.80, 1.85 and 1.88 meters, she earned one of the remaining two spots in the final. Yelena Yelesina, the high jump gold medalist in Sydney, also cleared at 1.88 meters, but she did not qualify for the final because she needed two attempts to clear at that height...
...replica of Barbra's gold record for People. But the real innovation is a section in which Barbara rebuts erroneous news reports. (She did not make staff at the MGM Grand avert their eyes when she passed...
Maybe some were tricked into coming out West, goaded on by the same visions of utopia that I was. Or maybe some were here before the gold rush, saw the roller-coaster ride pass them by and now are just trying to pick up the pieces. Or at least trying to understand why they couldn’t have been one of the lucky few to make it big. What really matters, though—and what is so easy to overlook—is no one party or group is to blame: everyone here probably had something...
...Kennel Club and no one will know," says David Hancock, an authority on pedigree dogs. Most reformers would like to see the Kennel Club using registration as a weapon - or reward - in the eradication of congenital diseases. John Bower, former president of the British Veterinary Association, suggests a "gold standard" register for breeders who do test. For years Sweden's progressive Kennel Club, they note, has had compulsory health checks for some breeds. Britain's Kennel Club maintains that breeders must drive health initiatives forward, and that the club has no regulatory function but exists simply to keep a breed...