PM praises 'fantastic result'

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.
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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.
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Jana Pittman's father said he woke the whole neighbourhood as he cheered his daughter home from Sydney this morning.
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Australia has a new sporting heroine and she has braces on her teeth and a tattoo of a bumble bee on her stomach.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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Everton work hard and are difficult to play against at home, though they have a lack of quality in midfield.
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Blackburn Rovers said Friday it had a verbal agreement to sign midfielder Barry Ferguson from Rangers.
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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.
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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.
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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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