Tasha Danvers

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Times Online Sport, 01.09.08 23:31 UTC

Gateshead provides a damb squib after Beijing

All that passion for athletics that we television viewers found in ourselves during the Olympics - it can’t have just disappeared out of the back door of the Bird’s Nest on board Boris ...

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guardian.co.uk, 01.09.08 13:02 UTC

Collins leaves UK Athletics

. UK Athletics performance director Dave Collins, who has left his position after a disappointing Beijing Olympics. Photograph: Steffan Rousseau/PA Dave Collins' tenure as the performance director of ...

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The Independent, 01.09.08 01:09 UTC

Rain fails to dampen Ohuruogu's sparkle

The rain poured down on Gateshead International Stadium yesterday, but there have been post-Olympic parades of a more dampened nature for British athletics teams. Back in 1976, there was just the one ...

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Times Online Sport, 30.08.08 19:31 UTC

Charles van Commenee to take up baton for Britain

It is being billed as a post-Olympic knees-up, but the party is already over and the gathering of medal-winners in Gateshead tomorrow will represent the death throes of an old regime. Now, as UK ...

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Times Online Sport, 24.08.08 11:01 UTC

Dave Collins goes on the defensive as vultures circle

"I'm DC not JC," Dave Collins, UK Athletics' performance manager, said when asked if he could categorically guarantee an improved medal haul in London. While elsewhere Team GB held celebratory press ...

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Times Online Sport, 23.08.08 22:32 UTC

Road to London 2012 paved with gold

If you can’t believe the performance of this British team in the Olympics, you should be here to witness the astonishment in Beijing. People are asking for the sporting secret of a country ...

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Seattle Times, 21.08.08 09:06 UTC

Olympics Results

Basketball Men's quarterfinals Spain 72, Croatia 59; Lithuania 94, China 68; United States 116, Australia 85; Argentina 80, Greece 78 United States men's summary UNITED STATES 116, AUSTRALIA 85 ...

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Times Online Sport, 21.08.08 00:01 UTC

Tasha Danvers claims unlikely bronze

Tasha Danvers knows she was lucky to be in Beijing after a season that she described as easily the worst of her life, complete with a low white blood cell count that affected her ability to train and ...

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The Independent, 20.08.08 20:03 UTC

Veteran Danvers claims shock bronze

Another lightning Bolt for Jamaica; another unexpected jolt of a medal for Great Britain. Usain Bolt was still posing next to the trackside clock on the infield of the Beijing Bird’s Nest when ...

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The Independent, 20.08.08 18:02 UTC

Jolt of joy for Danvers

Another lightning Bolt for Jamaica; another unexpected jolt of a medal for Great Britain. Usain Bolt was still posing next to the trackside clock on the infield of the Beijing Bird’s Nest when ...