tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68228656713915276192024-03-13T04:05:40.309+01:00Vernon Goddard: THIS SPORTING LIFEView the latest in sport and have your say too.Gorseinonboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02399937585023653003noreply@blogger.comBlogger301125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6822865671391527619.post-18062009119529068022012-10-07T17:53:00.001+01:002012-10-07T17:53:43.970+01:00Novak wins again...........In China........<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Novak Djokovic beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets to win tennis’s China Open for a third time in four years, while top-ranked Victoria Azarenka won the women’s title.</div>
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Serbia’s Djokovic, No. 2 in the ATP World Tour rankings, beat his French opponent 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 in Beijing to claim a 32nd career title and fourth this year.</div>
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“I think the first set was really even, and maybe a couple points decided the winner there,” Djokovic told reporters. “When you’re getting to the second set with the advantage, mentally it is much more encouraging for you and then you try to play on that confidence run that you have.”</div>
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Djokovic, 25, now has an 8-5 record against the seventh- ranked Tsonga, who today was able to convert only one of his six break points. That break came in the 65-minute opening set, which was decided in a tiebreak when Tsonga hit a backhand slice into the net.</div>
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The Olympics have come & gone & the Paras too. We did well, some would say brilliantly. I'm still reeling from some of the wins, the wonderful atmosphere and the spirit of the Games..............<br />
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Gorseinonboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02399937585023653003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6822865671391527619.post-25245666353074411902012-08-02T19:05:00.001+01:002012-08-02T19:05:04.779+01:00How many medals..........???<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Olympics athletics: Pundits pick who will star for Great Britain</h1>
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British athletics head coach Charles van Commenee has set a target of eight medals at London 2012.</div>
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The last time GB won eight athletics medals was back in 1988 in Seoul and he target is double what was achieved in Beijing four years ago.</div>
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So what gives Van Commenee such confidence this time out?</div>
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Britain has enjoyed a flurry of success on the global stage in the past couple of seasons, including two golds and seven medals in total at last year's World Championships in Daegu.</div>
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That was followed by second place in the medals table at the World Indoor Championships - Britain's highest ever position.</div>
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But can Britain do it on the biggest sporting stage of all? BBC Sport's athletics expert give their verdict.</div>
</div>Gorseinonboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02399937585023653003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6822865671391527619.post-49967013228661168222012-01-31T18:33:00.000+01:002012-01-31T18:33:32.963+01:00Good Old Lennox!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><br />
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display: table;"></div></div><div id="mainBodyArea"><div class="firstPar"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Lewis, born in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.whufc.com/" rel="homepage" title="West Ham United F.C.">West Ham</a> but who competed for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.4,-75.6666666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=45.4,-75.6666666667%20(Canada)&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Canada">Canada</a> after his mother had emigrated there when he was 12, said: “An Olympics on your home turf is so important.</div></div><div class="secondPar"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I went to two <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/" style="color: #234b7b; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Olympic</strong></a> Games, and I know what it’s like when the home fighters get the support of their own fans and families in the audience. I experienced that at my first Games in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" rel="wikipedia" title="Los Angeles">LA</a>. The Americans had so much support.</div></div><div class="thirdPar"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“My feeling is that the athletes at a home Games feel responsibilities as a result of that groundswell of support, and they feed off that, which I think makes them a winning force. The British public’s support will give the team such a boost.</div></div><div class="fourthPar"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“When I boxed in Los Angeles, in 1984, I was 18 and I felt that lack of experience. I lost to the American Tyrell Biggs, who had a lot more international experience than me, in the quarter-finals.”</div></div><div class="fifthPar"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Biggs went on to become Olympic champion.</div></div><div class="related_links_inline" id="tmg-related-links" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; clear: both; margin-bottom: 8px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; width: 460px;"><div class="headerOne styleEleven" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: url(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/template/ver1-0/i/grey_dots.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-top-color: rgb(249, 212, 38); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; color: #262626; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px;"><h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 0px;">RELATED ARTICLES</span></h2></div><ul style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.3em; list-style-image: url(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/template/ver1-0/i/articleBullet.gif); list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li class="bullet" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/template/ver1-0/i/sprite-icon.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px -1048px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 18px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: initial; display: inline; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 0.8em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/7904164/London-2012-Olympics-boxing-guide.html" style="color: #234b7b; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 13px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">Boxing guide</a> </div><span class="relContDate" style="color: #545454; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 13px; text-transform: none;">11 Feb 2011</span></li>
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</ul></div><div class="body"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“I should really have got a silver medal there in LA. But I was still young, and decided to continue to the 1988 Olympics, where I did win gold.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I’m glad I took the time to go to two Games, because I gained all the experience I needed in the intervening four years to win the gold the second time around. By the time those four years were up, I really was on top.”</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Lewis has wise counsel for Anthony Joshua, Britain’s rising 22-year-old super-heavyweight who surpassed expectation by winning the silver medal at the World Amateur Championships — in only his second major tournament — three months ago in Azerbaijan.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“I have seen Anthony Joshua, and I think he’s got a lot of talent; he’s still a little bit raw but I think he’s got a good chance of winning the Olympics in London,” Lewis said.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“There are a couple of things he needs to work on, but he has time. Getting the silver in the worlds is real momentum for him. Everyone is going to be looking at him because he’s coming off that success.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Boxing is not only a physical sport, it’s a mental sport as well, and as long as he is strong mentally, he can make it his Games.”</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Lewis believes he can bring his vast experience to bear with Joshua and the rest of the team.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“It’s interesting – Audley Harrison won the Olympics [in Sydney in 2000] and I remember speaking to him right before he went into the ring and he came out on top.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“I’m pretty excited about the Olympics coming up, and yes, absolutely, I’d like to be involved with the British team. They will</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">have a big push behind them. I’m definitely going to be involved in the Olympics in one way or another this year. I’ve been around the world, I was the best in the world, and I believe I have great advice I can pass on to the British crew.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I will look to do whatever I can to help the team to be successful in the Olympics, in the professional game afterwards, or even in life. It’s all connected.”</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In response to Lewis expressing his wish to advise the GB team, Derek Mapp, chairman of the British Amateur Boxing Association, told<i>Telegraph Sport</i>: “It is a tribute to the hard work and dedication of [head performance coach] Rob McCracken and all of our boxers that a figure like Lennox Lewis has been following the progress of the GB Boxing squad and enjoying its success over the last two years.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“The boxers will be pleased to know their successes have been cheered on by such a well respected figure and they will all be looking to emulate his achievement of winning Olympic gold when the London Games get under way later this year.”</div></div><div class="cl" style="clear: both; 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<div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=947f0e2e-1944-4d6a-bf77-cfd7f9617f98" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div></div>Gorseinonboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02399937585023653003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6822865671391527619.post-81727616114803462782012-01-31T18:29:00.000+01:002012-01-31T18:29:45.308+01:00Sir Chris Hoy & Co.........<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><br />
<div class="storyHead" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><h1 style="color: #1e1e1e; font-size: 2em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics" rel="wikipedia" title="2012 Summer Olympics">London 2012 Olympics</a>: <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.chrishoy.com/" rel="homepage" title="Chris Hoy">Sir Chris Hoy</a> heads up strong <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_at_the_Olympics" rel="wikipedia" title="Great Britain at the Olympics">Great Britain team</a> for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_cycling" rel="wikipedia" title="Track cycling">track cycling</a> test event</h1><h2 style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.6em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sir Chris Hoy and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.victoriapendleton.co.uk/" rel="homepage" title="Victoria Pendleton">Victoria Pendleton</a> head up a strong Great Britain team for next month's <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.london.gov.uk/" rel="homepage" title="London">London</a> World Cup, which is doubling up as the track cycling test event for the London 2012 Olympics.</h2><div class="artIntro" style="border-top-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; padding-top: 3px;"><div id="storyEmbSlide" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="slideshow ssIntro" style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="nextPrevLayer" style="height: 405px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="ssImg" style="display: block; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="London 2012 Olympics: Sir Chris Hoy heads up strong Great Britain team for track cycling test event " height="388" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02124/hoy_ap_2124746b.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block;" width="620" /><div class="artImageExtras" style="font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="ingCaptionCredit" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px;"><span class="caption" style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 0px;">Big names: GB will give their stars an outing at the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.olympic.org/" rel="homepage" title="Olympic Games">Olympic</a> test event</span> <span class="credit" style="color: #999999; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.38em;">Photo: AP</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="oneHalf gutter" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; width: 460px;"><div class="story" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 3px;"><div class="cl" style="clear: both; display: table;"></div><div class="bylineComments" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><div><div class="bylineBody" style="color: #3f3f3f; float: left; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 0px;">By Telegraph staff and agencies</div></div><div class="publishedDate" style="color: #3f3f3f; float: left; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 390px;">1:30PM <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time" rel="wikipedia" title="Greenwich Mean Time">GMT</a> 31 Jan 2012</div><div class="comments" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #3f3f3f; float: left; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: bold; height: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; width: 460px;"><img alt="Comments" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/template/ver1-0/i/share/comments.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; float: left; margin-right: 5px;" /><a dsqid="9051779" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/cycling/9051779/London-2012-Olympics-Sir-Chris-Hoy-heads-up-strong-Great-Britain-team-for-track-cycling-test-event.html#disqus_thread" style="color: #234b7b; font-weight: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">2 Comments</a></div><div class="cl" style="clear: both; display: table;"></div></div><div id="mainBodyArea"><div class="firstPar"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The tournament, which will be the first competitive cycling staged at the brand new 6,000-seater <strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/" style="color: #234b7b; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Olympic</a></strong> velodrome, will see the likes of Hoy and Pendleton lock horns with their <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/cycling/9051140/London-2012-Olympics-Australia-at-full-strength-for-track-cycling-test-event.html" style="color: #234b7b; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Australian rivals</a> and should be a fascinating insight into the full-blown Olympic event this summer.</div></div><div class="secondPar"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Cycling" rel="wikipedia" title="British Cycling">British Cycling</a> performance director <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Brailsford" rel="wikipedia" title="Dave Brailsford">Dave Brailsford</a> said: "The World Cup in London has added significance given that it's the first major event to be held at the Olympic venue.</div></div><div class="thirdPar"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"We are using the test event as a learning opportunity for our Olympic preparations and have selected a full-strength squad accordingly.</div></div><div class="fourthPar"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"The riders and staff are looking forward to gaining race experience at the London Velodrome and it's always fantastic for us to have the support of a sell-out home crowd."</div></div><div class="fifthPar"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Hoy and Jason Kenny are joined in the sprint group by Ross Edgar and Matt Crampton, while alongside Pendleton in the women's equivalent is Jess Varnish.</div></div><div class="related_links_inline" id="tmg-related-links" style="background-attachment: initial; 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Matt Crampton (representing Sky Track Cycling)<br />
Ross Edgar<br />
Sir Chris Hoy<br />
Jason Kenny<br />
Victoria Pendleton<br />
Jess Varnish</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong>Men’s Endurance</strong><br />
Steven Burke<br />
Ed Clancy<br />
Pete Kennaugh<br />
Ben Swift<br />
Andy Tennant<br />
Geraint Thomas</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong>Women’s Endurance</strong><br />
Wendy Houvenaghel<br />
Dani King<br />
Joanna Rowsell<br />
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Photograph: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images</div></div><div id="article-body-blocks" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Rob Howley, the Wales assistant coach, has said the team remain hopeful of having Rhys Priestland, Jamie Roberts and Dan Lydiate fit for Sunday's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/sixnations" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Six Nations">Six Nations</a> opener against Ireland in Dublin.</div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Scarlets fly-half Priestland and the Cardiff Blues centre Roberts are struggling with knee injuries, while the Newport Gwent Dragons flanker Lydiate has an ankle problem.</div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">All three played a part in last week's pre-tournament training camp in Gdansk, Poland, and Wales have delayed naming their side for the Aviva Stadium clash until Friday to give them the best chance of being involved.</div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But Howley says it will be their response to training over the next two days that will determine their availability. "Last week went well," he said. "Obviously with Dan Lydiate and Rhys Priestland we are still waiting. In terms of their participation, it was very limited last week. Dan and Rhys probably did about two or three sessions but they were just limited to skills, the next 48 hours is pretty critical and we are waiting to see how they are.</div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"They have come in this morning and they are a little bit sore after the weekend's endeavours but we are obviously hopeful," the assistant coach said.</div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Jamie participated a little bit more than Dan and Rhys but we are still uncertain. Jamie has not played for a long time, I think it's around five or six weeks, so we are, once again, waiting to see how the next 48 hours goes."</div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Should Priestland, who played a starring role at the World Cup, be ruled out, James Hook will likely take the No10 shirt with Stephen Jones or Gavin Henson able to provide bench cover.</div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Henson would also be an option at centre if Roberts loses his fitness battle, with the young Osprey Ashley Beck and Scott Williams being among Wales's other midfield options.</div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ryan Jones and Andy Powell are potential replacements for Lydiate in the back row. 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<div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.tmz.com/person/tiger-woods/" rel="tmzcom" title="Tiger Woods">Tiger Woods</a> laughed at the question and it was hard to blame him.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">He has won 82 times around the world, including 14 majors. In the 47 tournaments where he had the outright lead going into the final round, only four players managed to beat him. This was golf's ultimate closer.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But this also was a new world for Woods. In the 12 months since his personal life came crashing down, he not only failed to win, he was never in serious contention.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">On this occasion, the 2010 <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.australianmasters.com.au/" rel="homepage" title="Australian Masters">Australian Masters</a>, he made two eagles on the last four holes to turn an ordinary round into a 65 and back his way into fourth place.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">He was asked that day if he would have to learn how to win again the longer he failed to get in the hunt.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"No," he said, breaking into a confident smile.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Woods didn't even let the reporter finish a follow-up question, smiling while shaking his head. "No, no, no."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Three weeks later, Woods blew a four-shot lead in the final round of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.chevronworldchallenge.com/" rel="homepage" title="Chevron World Challenge">Chevron World Challenge</a> and lost in a playoff to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.graememcdowell.com/" rel="homepage" title="Graeme McDowell">Graeme McDowell</a>. He later attributed that to being able to hit only one shot a draw while in the early stages of a swing overhaul.</div><div class="advert" id="DivContentRect" style="float: right; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><iframe align="left" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="250" hspace="0" id="ContentRect" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" noresize="true" scrolling="no" src="http://data.apn.co.nz/apnnz/hserver/SITE=NZH/AREA=SEC.SPORT.STY/CHA=SPORT/SS=SPORT/S1=INTERNATIONALGOLF/S2=GOLF/S3=NONE/S4=NONE/S5=NONE/HB=SPORT._._._._/SCW=1280/SCH=800/WLOC=none/WH=24/WL=17/WC=partly_cloudy/AS=/VT=NONE/VV=NONE/VP=NONE/size=RECTANGLE/SA=3/SR=1/POS=2/random=250096468/viewid=60317866504/KEYWORD=golf+tiger+learn+win+international+woods+laughed+question+hard+blame+won+times+world+majors+tournaments+outright+lead+going+final+four+players+managed+beat+ultimate+closer+months+personal" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" vspace="0" width="300"></iframe></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A year later, when his health returned, Woods had a one-shot lead going into the weekend at the Australian Open and shot 75, falling six shots behind and never catching up.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And then on Sunday in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.abudhabihsbcgolfchampionship.com/" rel="homepage" title="Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship">Abu Dhabi Golf Championship</a>, he was tied for the 54-hole lead with <a class="zem_slink" href="http://robertrock.co.uk/index.htm" rel="homepage" title="Robert Rock">Robert Rock</a> and couldn't hang with an Englishman who was No117 in the world with one career victory.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">One shot behind when he made the turn, Woods didn't make a single birdie on the back nine.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Not to be overlooked was his win at the Chevron World Challenge two months ago, when he started the final round one shot behind <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Johnson" rel="wikipedia" title="Zach Johnson">Zach Johnson</a> and birdied the last two holes for a one-shot victory. It was an important win because it meant something to Woods, yet it was hard not to notice how much harder he had to work to get it.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Woods is still not there. He never thought winning was easy, but he used to make it look that way.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Donald" rel="wikipedia" title="Luke Donald">Luke Donald</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Karlsson" rel="wikipedia" title="Robert Karlsson">Robert Karlsson</a>, who played with him in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=24.4666666667,54.3666666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=24.4666666667,54.3666666667%20(Abu%20Dhabi)&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Abu Dhabi">Abu Dhabi</a>, were struck by the flight and shape of Woods' shot. That's what always set him apart from the others, that and his putting. Ultimately, putting will determine not only whether Woods wins again, but how often.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In the meantime, Abu Dhabi can be perceived two ways.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It was another chance for Woods to establish himself against this new world order, and he couldn't buy a birdie.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But the question remains from two years ago. He took the time to learn a new swing under a new coach. Now does he have to teach himself how to win again? For that, he has only one teacher.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">AP</div><br />
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<div class="clrd" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; zoom: 1;"><h1 style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">London 2012: Hard graft key to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronized_swimming" rel="wikipedia" title="Synchronized swimming">synchronised swimming</a> success </h1><h2 class="h2" style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics" rel="wikipedia" title="2012 Summer Olympics">London 2012 Olympics</a>: Synchronised swimmer Jazmine Stansbury explains to Metro why dedication is needed to shine in a sport often written off as a novelty act.</h2><div class="art-fd fd-gr1-b clrd" style="background-color: white; background-image: url(http://f.metro.co.uk/i/f/fades/fd-spt-sm.png); background-position: 0px -1593px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-top-color: rgb(209, 209, 209); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-size: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 9px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"></div><div class="img-cnt figure" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; zoom: 1;"><img alt="Brits Olivia Allison and Asha Randall of England compete at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi" height="346" src="http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2011/06/06/article-1307379725739-0C6F241100000578-522204_636x346.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="636" /><span class="img-cap legend" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; display: block; font-size: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 4px;">Brits Olivia Allison and Asha Randall of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.5,-0.116666666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=51.5,-0.116666666667%20(England)&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="England">England</a> compete at the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Games" rel="wikipedia" title="Commonwealth Games">Commonwealth Games</a> in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.61,77.23&spn=0.1,0.1&q=28.61,77.23%20(Delhi)&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Delhi">Delhi</a> last year (Pic: <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.gettyimages.com/" rel="homepage" title="Getty Images">Getty</a>)</span></div></div><div class="clrd" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; zoom: 1;"><div class="art-lft" style="float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 480px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Few <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_sports" rel="wikipedia" title="Olympic sports">Olympic sports</a> are as maligned as synchronised swimming. It used to be a bit of a laughing stock, in Britain at least, when introduced to the Games in 1984 and has largely struggled to shake off the ‘novelty’ tag. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Whereas gymnastics and diving – including the synchronised event – are seen as bona fide disciplines, artistry in the pool is still sneered at. Maybe it’s the ever-present grin. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But it is a sport on the up in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.5,-0.116666666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=51.5,-0.116666666667%20(United%20Kingdom)&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="United Kingdom">UK</a> and the physical prowess of the elite cannot be taken lightly. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">‘It’s hard work, I promise you,’ said Briton Jazmine Stansbury. ‘The smile is there to make it look easy but I challenge anyone to give it a try and to keep smiling.</div><div class="flt-r m12l img-233 figure" style="display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 223px;"><img alt="Jazmine Stansbury trains for 45 hours a week" height="335" src="http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2011/06/06/article-1307379787438-0C6F2FDB00000578-385263_223x335.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="223" /><span class="img-cap legend" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white; display: block; font-size: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 4px;">Jazmine Stansbury trains for 45 hours a week</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">‘People don’t appreciate how fit we have to be. Core strength is vital, synchro works your whole body.’ </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Stansbury, 22, recently lost her place in the British team – she still harbours hopes of reclaiming her place for London 2012 – and spelled out the dedication required to stay at the top. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">‘I’ve trained 40-45 hours a week and worked as a lifeguard in the evening. You need dedication.’ </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">With most of the exertion being underwater and requiring breaths held for long periods, it requires phenomenal conditioning. Most of us would soon be gulping chlorine. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Speaking in Essex at the opening of Basildon Sporting Village, which boasts a 50-metre pool, Stansbury says the sport is on the up here. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Indeed, in March, a ten-strong <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=53.826,-2.422&spn=5.0,5.0&q=53.826,-2.422%20(Great%20Britain)&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Great Britain">GB</a> team won bronze in the Free Combination event at the European Champions Cup meet in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=53.3836111111,-1.46694444444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=53.3836111111,-1.46694444444%20(Sheffield)&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Sheffield">Sheffield</a>. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">‘Hopefully, more kids will get into it leading up to and after the Olympics,’ Stansbury said. ‘Having places like this [the Basildon venue] is brilliant to give them the chance to have a go.’ </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Only time will tell if Britain’s pool of talent can be deep and strong enough to challenge at future Olympics, but a strong showing at London 2012 could be a stepping stone. 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<div class="storyHead" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><h1 style="color: #666666; font-size: 2.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.18em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Brian Moore: scarred for life – but not by <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/rugby_football" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_football" rel="wikipedia" title="Rugby football">rugby</a></h1><h2 style="color: #444444; font-size: 1.6em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.18em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In the second of our exclusive extracts from his new biography, Brian Moore tells how a legacy of abandonment and <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sexual_abuse" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse" rel="wikipedia" title="Sexual abuse">sexual abuse</a> has helped him to become a better husband and father.</h2></div><div class="oneHalf gutter" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; width: 460px;"><div class="headerOne" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/template/ver1-0/i/headerBlueBG.gif); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: repeat-x; padding-bottom: 7px;"> </div><div class="story" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><div class="byline" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">By Brian Moore<br />
Published: 8:36AM GMT 04 Jan 2010<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Comments <span class="num"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/brianmoore/6930085/Brian-Moore-scarred-for-life---but-not-by-rugby.html#comments" style="color: #234b7b; text-decoration: none;">19</a></span> | <span class="placeComment"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/brianmoore/6930085/Brian-Moore-scarred-for-life---but-not-by-rugby.html#postComment" style="color: #234b7b; text-decoration: none;">Comment on this article</a></span><br />
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</ul></div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The secret me, the bit I kept for myself, the bit that nobody could touch, was my defence mechanism against being harmed again. If there was something that was internal, whatever that something was, then it could not be taken away, could not be abused. In so far as it may have protected me, it also led to a crippling fear of intimacy.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Although this did not prevent physical intimacy, it still marred sex as a complete act. Both the mental and physical sides have to coincide to create total satisfaction and, because I would not risk being vulnerable and kept something for myself, that could not happen. Instead, I mistook intensity for intimacy. Anything edgy, tending to the extreme, seemed more exciting, but when experienced was invariably unsatisfactory.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In a similar fashion, my relationships, at all levels, have been imperfect. It is not just the very close relationships that have suffered. This fear has also caused me to have difficulty in social gatherings of any kind. And at the very times when I might have been expected to be happiest or most content, I have all too often felt detached and unable fully to share a moment of victory or joy. Added to this, because I did not have any insight into why this happened, I would also be angry.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This fear is also principally responsible for the self-destructive behaviour that has occurred in my past. At times, when a situation or a relationship threatened to become sufficiently comfortable that I was able to consider taking the last stride towards contentment, I would do something to wreck it, thus preventing any chance of putting my happiness in the control of another person. You will immediately have spotted the inherent irony of doing this: it made me unhappy anyway.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I believe the abandonment issue was also at work in the behaviour outlined above. Having previously been abandoned, there was no way I could risk this happening again, and I would leave before I could be left. Though this, too, made me desperately unhappy, I would console myself with the thought that it would have happened sooner or later, and at least this way I was in control.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Even now that I have some understanding of these issues, it is not as simple as switching from uninformed and unhappy to informed and full of the joys of spring. There is no guide to risking intimacy that is universally applicable. All the theories and treatises that exist can never deal with the infinite variations that make up an individual’s life and circumstances. Little by little, I am trying to trust more, invest more emotionally in things, and open myself up. With this, inevitably I suppose, there has come hurt. People let you down; they act in a disloyal way. But what is the alternative?<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Either of the two issues, abandonment and abuse, would have posed more than enough problems for me. In unison they have been an ordeal and continue to be so on an almost daily basis, even though their influence has diminished. I am now much more aware of my moods and motives, and of what might lie behind a certain feeling or proposed action. As such, I have started to have some success in recognising and dealing with these twin monsters.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I am not sure the title of Mrs Moore III was especially attractive, but Belinda overcame any misgivings and we married in December 2008, a year after she gave birth to our daughter, Larissa Holly. We are getting on with the most important task of all: raising a decent, healthy and happy family. I try to give the benefit of my experience to Larissa Holly and Imogen, the daughter of my second marriage, and worry about their future, as do all parents. I try not to resurrect my former life through them and am always mindful that, while they have part of me in their persona, that persona is not mine to control.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">One of the most difficult things about parenting is knowing when to keep quiet and not to interfere, and realising that some lessons have to be personally learnt. Both my daughters seem to have my argumentative and spirited nature; I just hope that it can be tempered, or at least directed, in positive ways.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I am, at last, beginning to understand my thoughts and actions, which at times still border on the pathological. I have had to accept that my extraordinary experiences gained through rugby were exactly that, and they were not meant to last in perpetuity. In fact, one of the things that made them special was their transient nature.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The most common question I get asked is: “Do you miss playing?” I used to trot out a stock answer, saying that I did not, because I realised that I could no longer play due to the passage of time, and anyway my life had many different strands, all of which kept me busy.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I no longer say this, because it isn’t true. And pretending that I do not miss my playing days is not to face the consequences of retirement. I miss that life more than I usually admit. It is not just the crowds or the acclamation; I miss the thrill of direct physical confrontation. I wish I could still enjoy the fantastic repartee and solidarity generated by competitive matches and the banter outside those moments of stress. And I miss my mates. Whenever I meet any former team-mate, it is as if our past glories occurred only last week, and I get twangs of nostalgia.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I wish there were more events or occasions at which I could meet the boys, but we all lead busy lives that have too little time for enjoyment anyway. I now try not to yearn for those days, and instead to be grateful that I have had them. Not many other people have had the chance to experience something similar.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I am in the process of setting down my personal and professional goals for one, five and 10 years hence. It occurs to me that this document should also include plans for a limited number of achievements in areas that interest me. I have matured enough to know that these need not, and probably should not, be things such as climbing Everest or walking to the South Pole. If they were that extreme, it would be a firm indication that I continued to chase something that was ultimately impossible to attain, that is, a life permanently filled with adrenalin.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Although such a life would continue to provide thrills, it would ultimately bring me much unhappiness because in the end I would fail in my quest. The elements of controlled danger in activities such as skiing couloirs and motorbike-track days give me an adrenalin fix but they are wants and not needs.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It has taken too long for me to recognise that the maxims by which I tried to live my sporting career do not work when applied to normal life. The fact that I instinctively still associate normal with mundane is to misunderstand the proper meaning of the word: that it also means healthy and occurring naturally. The truth that has escaped me is that there are enough real challenges within everyday life to occupy anybody. The difficult tasks of being a good father and husband are faced every day, and they are not made any easier by their frequency. I failed in the past to attend to important matters because I judged them to be of lesser importance than chasing my dreams.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The commonplace challenges, plus the odd chance to campaign, do charity work or take an opportunity to make a difference, all these are more than enough for a normal man, which, in the end, is all that I am.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Over the years, the advice from lay and professional confidants – to “put it all behind me” in order to achieve some sort of peace with myself – was not unreasonable or unrealistic, but to do so I had to find out what “it” was; which was in itself difficult. I have been trying for some time now to deal with “it”, and occasionally I feel I have made great progress. More often than not, though, I feel progress is slow. I suppose that to unravel 40-odd years could not be done any other way but I wish it were not so. I now realise that my constant search for the one explanation that will solve all my problems is itself part of the problem.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The fact is that, as far as my personal life is concerned, this “key’’ probably does not exist. My legal background taught me to analyse facts and consider every detail of an issue and this led me to do the same with my past. However, doing this means that I constantly dragged experiences from my past into the present, and although they were not as viscerally felt as when they first occurred, they were nevertheless upsetting, and they could not be left to rest. I have had to learn to see them as things that I cannot alter or make better; they will always be painful. What I have to do is deal with their effects.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Crucially, I am now able to see that I should not define myself as an abused, abandoned man; rather, I am a man to whom abuse and rejection happened<br />
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<div class="storyHead" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><h1 style="color: #666666; font-size: 2.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.18em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Tour de France triumph on the agenda as <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000dfe8480" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Sky" rel="wikipedia" title="Team Sky">Team Sky</a> take to the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/road" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road" rel="wikipedia" title="Road">road</a></h1><h2 style="color: #444444; font-size: 1.6em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.18em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">One of the last great challenges still facing <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/briton" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_people" rel="wikipedia" title="British people">British</a> sport got under way in earnest on Monday when Team Sky, formed with the express purpose of producing a British Tour de France winner in the next five years, rolled off the ramps amid much pomp and ceremony.</h2></div><div class="oneHalf gutter" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; width: 460px;"><div class="headerOne" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/template/ver1-0/i/headerBlueBG.gif); background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: repeat-x; padding-bottom: 7px;"> </div><div class="story" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><div class="byline" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px;"><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">By Brendan Gallagher<br />
Published: 10:18PM <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/greenwich_mean_time" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time" rel="wikipedia" title="Greenwich Mean Time">GMT</a> 04 Jan 2010<br />
</div></div><div class="slideshow"><div class="ssImg" style="display: block; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><img alt="Tour de France triumph on the agenda as Team Sky take to the road" height="288" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01553/ben-swift_1553137c.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block;" width="460" /><div class="imageExtras" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; width: 460px;"><span class="caption" style="color: #666666; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.38em; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px;">Sky's the limit: Team Sky intend to be big players on tour this season, as shown by their last-ditch signing of the promising <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/ben_swift" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Swift" rel="wikipedia" title="Ben Swift">Ben Swift</a> </span><span class="credit" style="color: #666666; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.38em; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px;">Photo: GETTY IMAGES</span></div></div></div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">An early-morning promenade down the Mall, flashing bulbs and cameras everywhere, foreign journalists demanding instant translations, this was British<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/" style="color: #234b7b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>cycling</strong></a> moving into new territory – and the madness has only just begun. A new decade, appropriately enough, is starting with an odyssey that could become one of the biggest <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sport" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport" rel="wikipedia" title="Sport">sports</a> stories of the years ahead.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Not untypically for a team who have already delighted in springing the occasional surprise, Team Sky produced a final rabbit from the hat to mark the occasion, announcing the last ditch signing of outstanding British prospect Ben Swift, 23. He has been racing with <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/team_katusha" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Katusha" rel="wikipedia" title="Team Katusha">Katusha</a> and had another year to go on his contract until the wealthy <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/russia" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1R8cKdU5J4" rel="youtube" title="Victory Parade 2008 - Парад победы - [part 2/2] Highlights">Russian</a> outfit were made an offer over the weekend that even they could not refuse.<br />
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</ul></div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Barring Mark Cavendish, whom Columbia-HTC would not trade for all the tea in China, Sky’s team principal, Dave Brailsford, has managed to assemble just about every British road racer capable of competing competitively, on one form or other, at the highest level.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">That is eight in total – in a team of 27 – a percentage he hopes will grow steadily as outstanding youngsters earn their spurs and are fed into the system.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Following on from the high-profile and costly recruitment of Bradley Wiggins as team leader from Garmin last month, Swift’s signing sent out another loud message to opponents across the world. New kids on the block they may be but Team Sky intend to be big players from the off, a team to reckon with from their opening race at the Tour Down Under in Adelaide in less than two weeks time.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And why not? British sport generally has a new found confidence and Britain’s cyclists have been at the forefront of that with their eight Olympic gold medals in Beijing. Brailsford and his backroom team believe that winning culture can be transferred from one branch of the sport to the other.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sean Yates certainly sees it that way having recently signed on for Sky as a<i>directeur sportif</i>. “Some people think that we are going to ease our way into racing on the Pro-Tour and in the Grand Tours but they are wrong,” insists Yates, who completed 10 Tours de France, nurtured the young <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/lancearmstrong/" style="color: #234b7b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Lance Armstrong</strong></a>, taught him how to ride down mountains and then acted as one of his <i>directuer sportifs</i> during the glory years. “Having now seen the quality of people involved first hand – riders and backroom staff – we will be hitting the ground running.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“Winning the Tour will be a massive and difficult thing but I think we have got as much chance in the first year as the fifth. If you have a strong team leader, prepare right and everybody plays their part you have always got a chance.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“At the moment Alberto Contador is the strongest rider in the world, no question, but he has not got as strong a team as he had last year.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“Lance is a year older and I don’t believe he will get any stronger, he will at best retain the form and fitness of last year. Andy Schleck can get better, Levi Leipheimer will be racing again after injury and he is quality and Bradley Wiggins can definitely improve and we will have a strong team riding for him all the way. I don’t know Brad well yet but I see a Tour winner in him.”<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“Knowing Lance so well and Johan Bruyneel who has helped him to all his Tour titles I can tell you this: Team Sky are well and truly on their radar. When I worked with them at Astana last year the rider they were most worried about was Brad Wiggins because they could see his untapped potential.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Wiggins, the three-time Olympic gold medallist who finished fourth in the Tour last year, was playing things down. “It takes a great team to win a big Tour. This time last year there were no expectations on me, I was just worried about losing a few pounds and getting competitive for the Paris-Nice prologue, doing a few decent rides in the Giro [d'Italia]. I wasn’t even the team leader at Garmin. It worked for me, I want to keep thing low key.”<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">That could be difficult Bradley!<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong>Where to see Team Sky in 2010</strong><br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong>Jan 17-24: </strong>Tour Down Under. 31: GP Cycliste la Marseillaise.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong>Feb 3-7: </strong>Etoile de Besseges. 7-12: Tour of Qatar. 14-19: Tour of Oman. 20-21: Tour du Haut Var. 21-25: Vuelta a Andalucia. 27: GP dell’Insubria-Lugano. 27: Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Elite. 28: Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne. 28: GP di Lugano.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong>March 3-7: </strong>Tour of Murcia. 6: Strade Bianche Eroica. 7-14: Paris-Nice. 10-16: Tirreno Adriatico. 20: Milan-San Remo. 22-28: Tour of Catalunya. 27-28: Criterium International.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong>April 4: </strong>Tour of Flanders. 5-10: Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco. 7: Scheldeprijs. 11: Paris-Roubaix. 18: Amstel Gold Race. 21: La Flèche Wallonne. 25: Liège-Bastogne-Liège. 27-May 2: Tour de Romandie.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong>May 8-30: Giro d'Italia</strong>.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong>June 2-6: </strong>Tour of Luxembourg. 6-13: Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. 12-20: Tour of Switzerland. 16-20: Ster Elektrotoer.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong>July 3-25: Tour de France</strong>.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong>Aug 1-7: </strong>Tour of Poland. 4-8: Vuelta a Burgos. 18-22: Tour of Ireland. 22: GP Ouest France-Plouay. 28-Sept 19: <strong>Vuelta a España</strong>.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong>Sept 10: </strong>GP Cycliste de Quebec. 11-18: <strong>Tour of Britain</strong>. 30: <strong>World Championship time trial</strong>.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong>Oct 3: </strong>Paris-Bourges. 10: Paris-Tours. 16: Tour of Lombardy.<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong>Team Sky in full</strong><br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Norway) age 34<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">John-Lee Augustyn (S Africa) 23<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Michael Barry (Canada) 33<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Edvald Boasson Hagen (Norway) 22 (world ranked 6)<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sylvain Calzati (France) 30<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Kjell Carlstrom (Finland) 33<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Dario Cioni (Italy) 34<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Steve Cummings (GB) 28<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Russell Downing (GB) 31<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Juan Antonio Flecha (Spain) 32 (ranked 58)<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Chris Froome (GB) 24<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Simon Gerrans (Australia) 29 (ranked 25)<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mat Hayman (Australia) 31 (ranked 95)<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Greg Henderson (New Zealnd) 33 (ranked 109)<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Peter Kennaugh (GB) 20<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Thomas Lovkvist (Sweden) 25 (ranked 55)<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Lars-Petter Nordhaug (Norway) 25<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Serge Pauwels (Belgium) 26 (ranked 178)<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Nicolas Portal (France) 30<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Morris Possoni (Italy) 25<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ian Stannard (GB) 22<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Chris Sutton (Australia) 25 (ranked 207)<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ben Swift (GB) 23<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Geraint Thomas (GB) 23<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Davide Vigano (Italy) 25 (ranked 113)<br />
</div><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Bradley Wiggins (GB) 29 (ranked 39)<br />
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The thesis of the film is that Mandela planned the campaign a year out from the World Cup to the extent that there are scenes of him in the film poring over the various qualifying groups, trying to work out who the Boks will face in the quarter-finals. <br />
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Cape Town: A sporting spectacularThat much is poppycock. Those close to the Springbok camp at the time insist that Mandela's involvement was much more spontaneous, though no one doubts the sincerity of his approach and the close bond he eventually formed with Pienaar which continues to this day. <br />
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Mandela's first meeting with the South African squad came at a Bok training session in Cape Town before the opening game, which was when Hennie le Roux presented him with the Springbok cap Mandela would wear at the final. <br />
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Mandela's other iconic item of clothing, Pienaar's No 6 shirt, was almost an afterthought. It was the idea of Mandela's bodyguard who called the Springbok camp on the morning of the final against <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/new_zealand" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-41.2833333333,174.45&spn=10.0,10.0&q=-41.2833333333,174.45 (New%20Zealand)&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> to request a shirt. The Boks were given two jerseys per game, one to wear and one to swap, and Pienaar gave his spare to Mandela. <br />
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Far from a regular presence, Mandela actually only called Pienaar on a couple of occasions throughout the tournament, once before the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/single-elimination_tournament" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-elimination_tournament" rel="wikipedia" title="Single-elimination tournament">semi-final</a> with <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/france" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=48.8666666667,2.3265&spn=10.0,10.0&q=48.8666666667,2.3265 (France)&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="France">France</a>, but the two men went on to become good friends with Mandela becoming a godfather to Pienaar's son. <br />
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</div>Swansea FC are doing well this year.......Until they came up against Nottingham Forest.......<br />
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It was the year when <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/dwain_chambers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwain_Chambers" rel="wikipedia" title="Dwain Chambers">Dwain Chambers</a> completed his tortured journey from “suicide bridge” to the brink of redemption. “It was like hanging on to a gust of wind,” is how he described trying to beat <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/usain_bolt" href="http://www.usainbolt.com/" rel="homepage" title="Usain Bolt">Usain Bolt</a> in the 100 metres final at the World Championships. “Then I saw the clock and started laughing.” <br />
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There has been little to laugh about in recent times for Chambers, a man whose doping past means he is routinely termed a disgrace, pariah and cheat. <br />
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However, he is nearing the end of a remarkable year in which, handicapped by a ban from all leading meetings, he secured a gold medal, shattered a European record and came sixth in the fastest race of all time. Now, after recuperating from an injury effectively caused by Bolt, he says he is “grateful and humble”, and wants more. “I’m in love with my sport again,” he said. <br />
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Chambers, 31, has put any thoughts of retirement on hold and is aiming for gold medals at the World Indoor and European Championships next year. Like the Olympics, he is banned from the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/commonwealth_games" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Games" rel="wikipedia" title="Commonwealth Games">Commonwealth Games</a>, but there will be no more legal challenges, just an acceptance of his lot and an empathy with other fallen heroes. <br />
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He has watched the media furore surrounding <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/tiger_woods" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0971329/" rel="imdb" title="Tiger Woods">Tiger Woods</a>’s domestic issues with interest. While not equating their problems, he knows what it is like when the tide turns and opprobrium ensues. <br />
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“We are all human beings and what defines us as humans is how we pick ourselves up from our mistakes,” he said. “It’s a personal affair that should be dealt with behind closed doors because it involves his family. He’s made a mistake and I hope he can resolve it.” <br />
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Meanwhile, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/marion_jones" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Jones" rel="wikipedia" title="Marion Jones">Marion Jones</a> is trying to come back from a jail term for lying to investigators over her drug use. The woman whose “drive for five” at the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/2000_summer_olympics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics" rel="wikipedia" title="2000 Summer Olympics">Sydney Olympics</a> was, literally, fuel-injected, wants a basketball career in the Women’s NBA, mirroring Chambers’s ill-fated attempt to gain a rugby league contract with Castleford Tigers last year. “If the basketball federation think she’s been honest enough and are prepared to give her a second chance then all I can do is wish her the best of luck,” he said. <br />
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“I hope she can re-establish herself. And I hope she sends out the message that the road we both went down was never the right one.” <br />
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Victor Conte, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative founder and president, who provided drugs for both, said he opened Chambers’s eyes when he first met him. “He came to me and was like, ‘So this is what Marion Jones does?’” Having revealed this year that he once contemplated suicide when he drove beneath an infamous bridge in Archway, North London, it is understandable that Chambers would back an outsider. <br />
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His journey towards acceptance has been tough, comprising a failed High Court attempt to get his Olympic ban overturned, being picked for <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/great_britain" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=53.826,-2.422&spn=1.0,1.0&q=53.826,-2.422 (Great%20Britain)&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Great Britain">Great Britain</a> while knowing the selection panel was unanimously opposed to him, and having Lord Coe, Britain’s most influential athletics icon, say he would hold his nose when watching him run. <br />
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“I’ve learnt that in life, success and failure come hand in hand, so treat those impostors the same,” he said. “I don’t get as mad as I used to. I’m having to re-educate myself in the sport, but it’s more fun than it’s ever been. I feel a lot, lot happier now. I can walk into an environment with my team-mates and people are not pointing the finger. <br />
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“There is not that animosity now. Most people have chosen to let it go. I’ve had a lot of support from Charles van Commenee [the head coach of UK Athletics] and the team. They’re people I hold in high regard and they are not throwing punches.” <br />
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Chambers has had a good year. He broke the European record on the way to the indoor 60 metres title in Turin in March. He missed out on the sub-10sec run he craved but reached the final of the 100 metres at the World Championships. However, Euromeetings, an umbrella body of promoters, has maintained its stance against booking those convicted of serious drug offences, and the inaugural Diamond League is also off limits. <br />
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“There’s no point crying over spilt milk,” Chambers said. “There’s no point chasing wild dreams and I’m just focusing on myself and encouraging others.” <br />
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The others include the younger members of the Britain team as well as those at his academy, which is designed to find future Olympic stars. “More youngsters in the GB team are looking up to me, seeing my struggle and wondering how I did it,” he said. “I want to drum it into their heads that drugs aren’t an option and will only hurt them and their sport.” <br />
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The sport is on a high thanks to Bolt. Chambers trained with the triple world and Olympic champion in 2006 in Jamaica and admitted: “I knew he was going to be special but never in my life expected him to be this good [at the 100 metres]. He always talked about running the 100 but Mr [Glen] Mills, his coach, wouldn’t let him. He’s just shown what was brewing inside his system.” <br />
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It was the sight of Bolt disappearing in 9.58sec in the World Championships in Berlin that led to Chambers’s injury. “I tore my left calf in the last 40 metres of the final,” he said. “I was in the fastest race in history, clinging to his coat-tails, and that was the result on my body. I remember seeing him at 60 metres, thinking, ‘He’s gone’, and, in that moment, my concentration went. I tied up because I tried to run his race.” <br />
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After three months out, his calf has healed and he has started training again. Still condemned to running in low-profile races until the major championships, he says it has taken time to digest a dramatic year and get himself mentally right. <br />
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The tattoo on his back says “Deal Wid Da Matta” and references past problems, but the man, himself, is looking ahead. “The past is the past,” he said, “but the future’s bright.” <br />
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4 British sprinters to have dipped under 10sec — Chambers, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linford_christie" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linford_Christie" rel="wikipedia" title="Linford Christie">Linford Christie</a>, Jason Gardener and <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/mark_lewis-francis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lewis-Francis" rel="wikipedia" title="Mark Lewis-Francis">Mark Lewis-Francis</a>. <br />
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</div>Tiger Woods has not been seen for days. Is he all bunkered up ready for the onslaught that is bound to come.Following his car crash and his emotional crash will there be a financial crash? Tiger Woods is certainly in a pickle jar and his current actions don't seem to be helping........Here he is at better times advising the President.Obama......<br />
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