jaydeep wrote:U guys never keep my soul in peace with ur pushy behaviour ...
No need to get upset Jaydeep. My query was just to find out where that story had appeared. I couldn't spot it in Delhi papers nor on the online editions of a few others. Just curious.
Mugu extremely sorry if u thought that I got upset ... As Goutam mentioned I should put more smilies infront of it ... I was joking when I put that line ... Sorry for the trouble ...
The Qatar IAAF Super Tour at Doha saw the men's 100m world record broken by Justin Gatlin, but the IAAF website does not list the lomg jump results of Anju.
Entry List: Women - Long Jump
Athlete; Nat
Anton Adina ROM
Bobby George Anju IND
Lebedeva Tatyana RUS
Militaru Alina ROM
Thompson Bronwyn AUS
Tigau Viorica ROM
Udmurtova Oksana RUS
Vaszi Tünde HUN
A not-so-fit Anju could manage only the seventh place.
1 Udmurtova Oksana RUS 7.02 +1.5 (wind)
2 Lebedeva Tatyana RUS 6.97 +1.7
3 Thompson Bronwyn AUS 6.76 +2.5
4 Vaszi Tünde HUN 6.53 +2
5 Militaru Alina ROM 6.53 +3.7
6 Glenn Brianna USA 6.47 +3.3
7 Bobby George Anju IND 6.43 +1.5
8 Tigau Viorica ROM 6.37 +3.2
9 Anton Adina ROM 6.37 +2.1
Anju George has forced to skip the 1st meet of the Asian Grand Prix series at Bangkok from May 18 becoz of a heal injury which she suffered while training in Bangalore last week just two days before leaving for Dubai.
She also cancelled her plan of particiapting in Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, USA from May 28 meet.
Anju finished second with a jump of 6.35m and Kazakhstan's Olga Rypakova won first place with a leap of 6.39m. This was the first time in four years that Anju had lost in India. Yelena Kochsheyeva of Kazakhstan had beaten her in the first leg of the 2002 Asian Grand Prix in Hyderabad.
I was wondering why Anju had been so quiet during the peak athletic season in the western world, and a newspaper report states that she has been suffering from a soft tissue injury recently. She has decided to skip Stockholm (July 25) and London (July 28) Grand Prix meets, and now set her sights on IAAF World Cup in September and the Asian Games in December.
A more detailed report on the same subject appeared two days ago in The Hindu. http://www.hindu.com/2006/07/22/stories ... 071900.htm
By the way BS, that injury is the same (heel) that hampered her at the Doha Grand Prix in May and prevented her from going for the Asian Grand Prix in Bangkok later. She did compete, without being fully fit, however, at the Bangalore and Pune GP meets and might well have aggravated that injury. Initially, it was thought that it would heal in two weeks time. It is more than two months now.
Anju George was hoping to get selected in the Asian team for the World Cup athletics championships to be held in Athens on September 16 and 17 ... But Asian Athletics Association finalised the team for the World Cup on current performances, so Kazakhstan's Olga Rypakova get selected on her dominating performance in this year's Asian Grand Prix series.
Anju George's world ranking in long jump had dropped to 35th on Dec 4, 2006 and a silver medal in the Asian Games brought it up to 23rd on December 18, 2006. A newspaper report mentioned that she will train under former Olympian and world famous sprinting coach, John Smith. Anju is under Smith's sports management company HSI and has trained under him before.
Anju won gold in the long jump but came up with a below-par show at the second leg of the Asian Grand Prix at Guwahati and failed to qualify for the forthcoming Osaka World Championship.
With athletes struggling to cope with the hot and humid condition, the best jump she could achieve was 6.28m in her fourth attempt, much less than the Osaka qualifying mark of 6.6m. Qualifying is open till Aug 13th.
Anju Could manage only 6.21 m during her win in the third leg of the Asian Grand Prix circuit in Pune. Partial reason for the poor performance was the wet conditions on the ground.
Disappointing to see that Anju is now jumping at least half a meter less than she was at her peak. I hope this is not a permanent shift downwards in her performance.
Emergence of Renjith Maheshway, John Abraham, and Saurabh Vij (along with some of the middle and long distance runners) gives us a new crop of men that should compete to be among best in Asia. Vikas Gowda seems to have stagnated a bit although he is still relatively young relative to peak performance age for throwers.
