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Liévin, halfway from Paris to Athens
Halfway from the World
Championships and the Olympic Games in Athens, the
Meeting Gaz de France du Pas-de-Calais will welcome the
champions who thrilled the whole world within the Stade
de France.
The athletes, whose
ultimate goal is to stand out in the Greek capital, have
carefully selected the competitions to which they will
participate to perfect their preparation.
Numerous world medallists have thus chosen the Meeting
Gaz de France du Pas-de-Calais as an essential stage in
their preparation
: Eunice Barber, who
has scheduled this meeting for a while, could meet again
on the jumping track the pretty and talented Carolina
Klüft, heptathlon World champion.
The two pole vault world
record holders outdoors, Yelena Isinbayeva, and
indoors, Svetlana Feofanova, should fight a
sky-high duel in which the local champion, Vanessa
Boslak, French record holder will try to interfere.
The high jump world
champion, the South African Jacques Freitag will
face the 2003 best performer the Pole jumper
Alexander Walerianczyk.
A Chinese team will be led
by the Asian record holder and world medallist on the
110m hurdles Liu Xiang and the Asian pole vault
record holder Shuying Gao.
The local public’s favorite,
Franck Fredericks will bid farewell on the track
of his world record.
And we will of course meet
the best French athletes again: the relay World
champions, Christine Arron, Muriel
Hurtis and Sylviane Felix on 60m, Patricia
Girard on 60m hurdles with Linda Ferga, and
on the same distance there will be Ladji Doucouré,
and finally on the 200m, Leslie Djhone, 5th
in the 400m in Paris.
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