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Jana Pittman's win in the 400m hurdles at the world athletics championship in Paris today is a fantastic result, Prime Minister John Howard said today. She's incredible, says head coach Jana Pittman's gold medal at the world athletics titles in Paris is a boost to the entire Australian team, Athletics Australia chief coach Keith Connor said. Jubilant dad wakens neighbourhood Jana Pittman's father said he woke the whole neighbourhood as he cheered his daughter home from Sydney this morning. Victory for 'bumble bee theory' Australia has a new sporting heroine and she has braces on her teeth and a tattoo of a bumble bee on her stomach. Young unfazed by drug reveleations Newly crowned world 400m champion Jerome Young said today he is not concerned about revelations in the Los Angeles Times he had won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics despite having failed a drugs test before them. Friday's Paris diary Going in Friday night's semi-finals of the 800m is the man who is to middle distance running what Mel Gibson's Sergeant Martin Riggs is to community policing - Yuriy Borzakovskiy. Do we need a foreign coach? "For every complex problem, there is a simple solution and it is usually wrong!" Australia's hockey legend Ric Charlesworth quotes H L Mencken, a prominent newspaperman, book reviewer and political commentator. Lawro's Premiership predictions Everton work hard and are difficult to play against at home, though they have a lack of quality in midfield. Blackburn to sign Rangers' Ferguson Blackburn Rovers said Friday it had a verbal agreement to sign midfielder Barry Ferguson from Rangers. My best-ever drive: Webber Mark Webber moved into ninth place in the World Drivers' Championship with what he described as the best drive of his career when he finished sixth at the Hungarian Grand Prix overnight. 8-yr-old Rao's run of success continues I can't go back to England because they have banned Indians, as we won so many medals," was Prasanna Rao's reply when asked when he would go back to England again after he returned with the British under-9 trophy earlier this month. Police guard boxing champion as kidnap plot revealed The WBO Cruiserweight champion Johnny Nelson has been under police guard for four months because of a kidnap threat against him.
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