Russia set their sights on world domination for ever
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:41 pm
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Russia set their sights on world domination for ever
By David Powell, Athletics Correspondent
Our correspondent visits Volgograd to try to discover secret of dominance by women’s team
THEY are the most powerful unit in world athletics and, even without their three Olympic champions this weekend, the Russia women’s team are forecast to win a ninth successive European Cup by the kind of runaway distance that Asafa Powell had over the field when setting his 100 metres world record on Tuesday night. The days of the old Soviet Union may be long gone, but the system still works a treat.
In the Olympic Games in Athens last year, Russia’s women won more than twice as many medals as the United States, the next most successful nation, including five golds. At the most recent international event, the European Indoor Championships in Madrid in March, they won six golds, three times as many as Sweden, the only other country to win more than one.
In Volgograd, the city that gave Russia its three women champions in Athens, Nelli Blinova, a high-ranking coach, holds court at the indoor track. “For ever,â€Â
Russia set their sights on world domination for ever
By David Powell, Athletics Correspondent
Our correspondent visits Volgograd to try to discover secret of dominance by women’s team
THEY are the most powerful unit in world athletics and, even without their three Olympic champions this weekend, the Russia women’s team are forecast to win a ninth successive European Cup by the kind of runaway distance that Asafa Powell had over the field when setting his 100 metres world record on Tuesday night. The days of the old Soviet Union may be long gone, but the system still works a treat.
In the Olympic Games in Athens last year, Russia’s women won more than twice as many medals as the United States, the next most successful nation, including five golds. At the most recent international event, the European Indoor Championships in Madrid in March, they won six golds, three times as many as Sweden, the only other country to win more than one.
In Volgograd, the city that gave Russia its three women champions in Athens, Nelli Blinova, a high-ranking coach, holds court at the indoor track. “For ever,â€Â
