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	<title>Sportolysis - The World Sports Blog &#187; Athletics</title>
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		<title>Not sport</title>
		<link>http://www.sportolysis.com/2006/08/02/not-sport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pratyush</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>

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One sportsperson breaks his own world record. We applaud him. However, one more tests positive for drug after the recent positive tests of Gatlin and Landis. 
The common excuse for taking drugs usually are &#8211; the competition is too tough, others might be taking it and I thus have no choice.. Well, you cheated and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Throw the Hammer</title>
		<link>http://www.sportolysis.com/2006/06/25/throw-the-hammer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pratyush</dc:creator>
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While the 100 metre world record battle is being followed, there is another less glamarous event where the world record is being broken and reclaimed &#8211; women&#8217;s hammer throwing. 
CNN Reports:
Russia&#8217;s Tatiana Lysenko reclaimed the world record in the hammer throwing 77.41 meters at the Znamensky memorial international athletics meeting in Russia on Saturday&#8230;
Lysenko had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Football&#8217;s Rising Graph</title>
		<link>http://www.sportolysis.com/2006/05/23/indian-footballs-rising-graph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 17:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pratyush</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Athletics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anju falls short. Even the brainy chess guys are not winning. Indian sport continues to see an upward trend while all this happens, especially football. 
Priya Saini at Economic Times writes:
Indian football is taking on glitzy hues as more and more corporates are coming on board as sponsors. It would seem outrageous that a sport [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Retires</title>
		<link>http://www.sportolysis.com/2006/05/23/a-great-retires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 01:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pratyush</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Athletics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boxing]]></category>

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Sports magnifies every thing. Every moment inside the sporting arena is looked at and talked about with far greater importance than necessary. The magnifying process also means that terms are used far more charitably than they should. Great is one such over used term. Even the most miserly will agree that Hicham El Guerrouj was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gatlin: Kick and Show Your Frustration</title>
		<link>http://www.sportolysis.com/2006/05/17/justin-gatlin-kick-and-show-your-frustration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2006 12:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pratyush</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Athletics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Records]]></category>

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Justin Gatlin loses his 100 metres record because, apparently, there was a statisticial error. 
CNNSI reports:

Gatlin was timed at 9.76secs at an IAAF GP meeting in Doha on May 12, a mark one-hundredths of a second faster than the existing best set by Asafa Powell in 2005.
But the IAAF said that the actual timing for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justin Gatlin: 9.76</title>
		<link>http://www.sportolysis.com/2006/05/13/justin-gatlin-976/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sportolysis.com/2006/05/13/justin-gatlin-976/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2006 12:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pratyush</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Athletics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Records]]></category>

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The 100 metre world record has been broken by Justin Gatlin. Gatlin overcame the mark of Asafa Powell (9.77) which stood for 11 months. See here for the progression of the 100 metre men&#8217;s world record. 
I was reading an article a few years ago which wondered how much the world record can be broken. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenyans rule Boston Marathon</title>
		<link>http://www.sportolysis.com/2006/04/18/kenyans-rule-boston-marathon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sportolysis.com/2006/04/18/kenyans-rule-boston-marathon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pratyush</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Athletics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kenya&#8217;s Rober Cheruiyot has won the Boston Marathon in record time. He became the 14th Kenyan to win the marathon since 1991. See the full list here. The women&#8217;s event was also won by a Kenyan, Rita Jeptoo.
The Boston Marathon is the opening marathon of the marathon season, known as the World Marathon Majors. See [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Plight of the Woman Sportsperson</title>
		<link>http://www.sportolysis.com/2006/03/07/the-plight-of-the-woman-sportsperson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sportolysis.com/2006/03/07/the-plight-of-the-woman-sportsperson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pratyush</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Athletics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cricket]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tennis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More than 150 Indian Bloggers have joined The Blank Noise Project to highlight the harassment of women on Indian streets. Why should any one have to bear indignity because of the gender?
I have had my women friends speak on harassment, leering they have to go through. Not being a woman, I am not the right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Higher than any other woman</title>
		<link>http://www.sportolysis.com/2006/02/05/higher-than-any-other-woman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sportolysis.com/2006/02/05/higher-than-any-other-woman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2006 22:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pratyush</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Athletics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Records]]></category>

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Kajsa Bergqvist, two time world champion, broke the 14 year old world record of Heike Henkel by jumping 2.08 metres. Henkel was there in the crowd to see it as well!
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		<title>Isinbayeva breaks the record of Isinbayeva again!</title>
		<link>http://www.sportolysis.com/2005/07/05/isinbayeva-breaks-the-record-of-isinbayeva-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sportolysis.com/2005/07/05/isinbayeva-breaks-the-record-of-isinbayeva-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pratyush</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Athletics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Stuff]]></category>

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Another centimetre added to the world pole vault record and she says:
 I don&#8217;t know how high I can jump, maybe 5.10 or even 5.15. I just don&#8217;t know my potential

It is the 14th time the 23 year old has broken the record and the slower she reaches her potential, the better it is for [...]]]></description>
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