UFO Info Week-End

Still sitting in the boat I knew J?n wouldn’t be happy with that It didn’t

“Still sitting in the boat, I knew J?n wouldn’t be happy with that It didn’t feel quite right,” he said. “The fantastic feeling came about three seconds later…”Now the future ­ with all its fantastic possibilities ­ is luring him on again And his personal agenda is very clear “Obviously we want to win in Athens,” he said. “I’ll always be on a loser if I try to compare myself to Steve and Matthew, because I’m never going to catch them up. But if Matt and I win every world championships between now and Athens, I’ll end up as third most successful British athlete of all time And that…” He searches for the appropriate phrase “That would be pretty cool.”. Katharine Merry is hoping to improve on her winning performance in Milan last week when she competes in the Athens Grand Prix today.

Katharine Merry is hoping to improve on her winning performance in Milan last week when she competes in the Athens Grand Prix today.
The Olympic 400 metres bronze medallist will face tougher opposition here with the world indoor champion, Sandie Richards of Jamaica, and the South African Heide Seyerling ­ winner over 200m in Milan ­ taking part.The Birchfield runner left Milan with her confidence brimming. With the opposition a spent force before the half distance was reached, she slowed down but still won in a fast 50.44 seconds. Natural progression says she should go even quicker in Europe’s first grand prix one fixture of the year.”The run in Milan clearly showed how strong I am but I didn’t expect to run so quickly,” said Merry, who set her personal best of 49.72sec in the Olympic final “I am sure I will build on the win. The field in Athens will be a much better one which obviously will help.”With the European indoor 60m champion Jason Gardener injuring himself in Seville and the world championship bronze medallist Dwain Chambers passing on the opportunity to take on Maurice Greene, Merry is the youngest Briton here.Steve Backley, 32, and his colleague Mick Hill, 36, should not trouble Kostas Gatsioudis, sixth in the Olympic javelin final.”Gatsioudis always gets great support when he competes in Greece and it does make things harder as the spectators are fanatical,” Backley said.The world 110m hurdles champion, Colin Jackson, lines up against the Olympic champion, Anier Garcia, and the world junior champion, Yuniel Hernandez.. Di Lampard was let down by her British team-mates for the second weekend in succession after she had jumped a clear round in the Nations Cup.

First to go for Britain at the Pavarotti International Horse Show here, her round was followed by a massive score of 69 penalties from William Funnell and the big black stallion Vechta ­ most of them incurred for exceeding the time after a fall. Di Lampard was let down by her British team-mates for the second weekend in succession after she had jumped a clear round in the Nations Cup. First to go for Britain at the Pavarotti International Horse Show here, her round was followed by a massive score of 69 penalties from William Funnell and the big black stallion Vechta ­ most of them incurred for exceeding the time after a fall.
Tim Stockdale and Traxdata Pacival, who had disappointed in St Gallen the previous weekend, then appeared to have retrieved the situation with just one mistake. But John Whitaker, normally the linchpin of the team, also had trouble with the time after Virtual Village Calvaro had lost all his momentum in the treble, where he was pulled out before the second element.

Whitaker incurred 30 faults and once again the team failed to qualify for the second round.The contest was won by Germany, with Ludger Beerbaum providing the fast clear round on Champion du Lys which gave them victory by 6.08 seconds over Ireland.. Spinnaker starts and a developing sea breeze combined to provide a glorious opening day for the 61 yachts in the Swan European Championship at Cowes yesterday. Spinnaker starts and a developing sea breeze combined to provide a glorious opening day for the 61 yachts in the Swan European Championship at Cowes yesterday.
The reigning title holder Stephen James, in the 48-foot Jacobite with the Olympic gold medallist Shirley Roverston at the helm, miscued the start and allowed the pack to stream away and give the main prizes of the day to visiting yachts.Harold Baum’s rival 48-footer Elan from Germany won the big boat class, as the Hong Kong boat, Paul Winkelmann’s Island Fling, crossed the line first but had to give time on handicap. He was chased home by two of the British contenders, Peter Ogden’s Spirit of Jethou and Terry Robinson’s Assuage.In the small boats, the 1999 class winner Graham Deegan in Menenes had to be content with second to Jean-Michel Carpentier’s French entry, Xaossa. He was sandwiched by another French challenger, Alain Foulquier, in Saga.The series continues today with two inshore races in the Solent, which was also the scene yesterday of the fourth in the series of Barlo Plastics Regattas for the Farr 40 class which has been dominated by Mark Heeley in GBR25.