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If I had to choose between my wife and my putter... well, I’d miss her.

Gary Player

Believe

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Sally Pearson, Melbourne, Hardie Grant, 2013. ISBN 9781742706368

The book takes the reader through the career one of the greatest woman sprint hurdlers of the modern era. It is very readable and gives insights into the person as well as the athlete.

I read with interest her account of her disqualification following a GB protest at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Her account is at odds with what I was told by team GB at the time.

This website, which specializes in faith and sport, noted the following comments on her demeanour while waiting to see who had won the 2012 Olympic title: “I am not a religious person but praying was the only thing I could do…I pleaded with the athletic gods”.



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