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	<description>Articles by Pat Butcher</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>HERE BE GIANTS!</title>
		<link>http://www.globerunner.org/blog/?p=414</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the last people I saw before I left Singapore, and the Youth Olympic Games last week, was Wilson Kipketer. A lot more relaxed than the intense figure who trod the tracks of the world so elegantly (and speedily) a decade and more ago, the Kenyan-born Dane walked over, face wreathed in smiles, despite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOLDEN GIRL</title>
		<link>http://www.globerunner.org/blog/?p=410</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Having recently criticised the Saudi authorities for refusing to send women to the Olympic Games, as part of their refusal to countenance equal rights, I am obliged to report that a young Saudi woman competed in the Youth Olympic Games which concluded last Thursday in Singapore. 
Dalma Malhas was a bronze medallist in the equestrian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MAN OF MYSTERY</title>
		<link>http://www.globerunner.org/blog/?p=406</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, my pal Jim O&#8217;Brien was chewing the fat with a New York cabbie, and asked where he was born. &#8216;Ukraine&#8217; came the reply, to which the only response was, of course, &#8216;Sergei Bubka&#8217;! &#8220;Everyone knows Bubka,&#8221; growled the cabbie.

But there was a time when nobody knew Bubka. Even after he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WELCOME TO THE FUTURE</title>
		<link>http://www.globerunner.org/blog/?p=403</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Opening Ceremony for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore takes place tonight, and competition begins tomorrow, Sunday August 15, with the athletics programme bursting out of the blocks on Tuesday.

There was a big debate leading up to these Games on whether to award medals (which they will) or publish records and medal lists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REALITY CHECK</title>
		<link>http://www.globerunner.org/blog/?p=399</link>
		<comments>http://www.globerunner.org/blog/?p=399#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Championships, which ended in Barcelona on Sunday evening created a lot of sound and light. And there can be few better cities to spend a week in and out of the stadium. But when the world champs roll round in Korea next year, then the Olympic Games in London 2012, much of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FORMIDABLE, WITH A FRENCH ACCENT</title>
		<link>http://www.globerunner.org/blog/?p=393</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Felicitations, Christophe Lemaitre, European 100 metres champion. The 20 year old from Aix-Les-Bains, an area of eastern France more likely to produce skiers than sprinters has justified all the promise of the last two years.

He swept away memories of his false-start DQ at the World Champs in Berlin last summer as easily as he swept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFTER THE GOLD RUSH</title>
		<link>http://www.globerunner.org/blog/?p=386</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Caster Semenya, newly trawling the tracks of Europe, is not mentioned in Richard Mayer&#8217;s recent history of South African distance running, Three Men Named Matthews*, having rocketed into world class since the book went to press a year ago.  
But she would fit perfectly into the final chapters about the unusual women - Stephanie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VEILED THREATS</title>
		<link>http://www.globerunner.org/blog/?p=379</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Competing on the international athletics circuit might sound like a great way to see the world while getting paid for it, but the reality is more a frantic whirl of airports, hotels, stadia, shuttle buses, and snatched meals.

Some years ago, when one elite athlete announced his retirement, and I asked what he was going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DYING OF SHAME?</title>
		<link>http://www.globerunner.org/blog/?p=374</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[  The French football team will probably hammer South Africa next week, and reclaim some dignity after their abject performances against Uruguay and Mexico. Even so, a draw between Uruguay and Mexico would still mean an early exit for the French, and they would leave the World Cup finals as ignominiously as they arrived. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;DON&#8217;T CRY, SWEETIE&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.globerunner.org/blog/?p=370</link>
		<comments>http://www.globerunner.org/blog/?p=370#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 01:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The original name of the Atlanta Olympic mascot was Whatizit (what is it?), later truncated to Izzy. Neither avatar was treated with anything like respect. Ditto the London 2012 efforts, launched a couple of days ago. Named Wenlock and Mandeville, they are more worthy of a similar question to the 1996 version, ie WTFizit?

I am, [...]]]></description>
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