Posts Tagged "Jana Rawlinson"
Rawlinson backs away from switch talk
By AAP, 28 Jun 2010
Australian two-time 400 metre hurdles world champion Jana Rawlinson has backed away from the idea of switching allegiances to Britain for the London 2012 Olympics.
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The weird and wonderful world of Jana
By Matthew Maguire, 28 Jun 2010 The drama queen of athletics, Jana Pittman-Rawlinson, who once rose from her hospital bed as if Christ reborn and who also removed her breast implants as they were inhibiting her ability to run for Australia, now wants to become a Brit.
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Rawlinson to quit Australia
By AAP, 27 Jun 2010 Australian two-time 400 metre hurdles world champion Jana Rawlinson has reportedly approached UK athletics officials about switching allegiances for the London 2012 Olympics.
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Mark Webber tore across it at 280km/hr, and a quarter of a million Sydneysiders, black and white alike, strolled over for far more significant reasons at the turn of the century.
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The forgotten stars of Junior Track and Field
By The Crowd, 27 Feb 2009As we look towards the World Cross Country Championships in March, it is exciting to see the junior talent on show, specifically within the Australian junior teams.
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Jana wants less drama, more fun
By Leonard Siragusa, 8 Oct 2008 She has reached the lofty heights of two world championships in the 400 metres hurdles. But after enduring a shattering end to her Olympic dream, Jana Rawlinson just wants to fall back in love with racing.
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Lewis says she’ll be racing drug cheats
By AAP, 6 Aug 2008 Australian 800 metre runner Tamsyn Lewis believes she will be competing against drug cheats when she lines up for her event at the Beijing Olympics.
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Absence of Rawlinson and Deakes to hit team hard
By John Salvado, 23 Jul 2008 History shows that Olympic track and field gold medals are fiendishly difficult to win. In the last 20 years, the only Australian to stand atop the Olympic podium in the Games’ premier sport was Cathy Freeman in Sydney. More Olympics Confidence high for Australian boxers Probe raises concerns over Olympic drug test US track boss [...]
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Freeman urges support for disappointed Jana
By Guy Hand, 17 Jul 2008 Australian track and field’s retired golden girl Cathy Freeman has urged the public to support her successor Jana Rawlinson as she deals with the disappointment of missing the Olympics.
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Rawlinson says she’ll be back
By AAP, 11 Jul 2008 Champion athlete Jana Rawlinson has now set her sights on the London 2012 Olympics after a toe injury forced her to pull out of next month’s Beijing Games.
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Jana will be back, says Raelene Boyle
By AAP, 11 Jul 2008 Jana Rawlinson will bounce back from her latest injury, former Olympian Raelene Boyle says.
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Jana Rawlinson: A dream evaporates
By The Crowd, 10 Jul 2008 There were two reasons to look forward to Jana Rawlinson’s gold medal winning performance in Beijing.
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Toe leaves Rawlinson downtrodden
By Steve Larkin, 10 Jul 2008 Jana Rawlinson would have cut the bloody thing off it meant Olympic gold. But the second toe on Rawlinson’s right foot has squashed her life’s ambition: to be an Olympic gold medallist. Exclusive: Tracing the origins of the Olympics More Olympics Olympics to put full stop on swimsuit debate Beijing’s bad air days won’t hurt [...]
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Track and field team has no excuses: Athletics Australia
By AAP, 10 Jul 2008 Australia’s track and field athletes have no excuses for flopping at the Beijing Olympics, Athletics Australia’s national performance manager says.
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Jana’s back with room for improvement
By Steve Larkin, 3 Jul 2008 Jana Rawlinson reckons her comeback race was a bit messy but it was a welcome start with the Beijing Olympics just over five weeks away.
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Smallest Olympic athletics team in 16 years
By AAP, 27 Jun 2008 Australia will send a 41-strong track and field team to the Beijing Games in August, its smallest Olympic squad since 1992.
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