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Meseret Defar leads in the IAAF World Rankings
By agencies
One of the fundamental rules of the IAAF World Rankings is that only performances from the past 365 days are included towards calculating one’s score. With the 10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics having started over 365 days ago, results from the Finnish capital are now out of date, causing athletes who performed well in Helsinki but have not had a good season in 2006 to drop in the Rankings. Over the past week, both Europe and Africa staged its continental championships allowing for athletes to back up their performances from previous years, or to record new scores.
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36th Ethiopian athletics Championships to bring record turn out

By SSI staff writer
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia- The 36th Ethiopian Athletics Championships will see a record number of participants when the event takes place from Wednesday May 2nd- May 6th 2007 at the Addis Ababa stadium. Read More>>>

 
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