Mrs Blankers-Koen did not have her own hurdles to train with, so a kindly competitor lent hers.
In Bloemfontein, South Africa, fly-half Louis Koen kicked 29 points as the Northern Bulls upset Golden Cats 34-26.
Mrs Blankers-Koen would probably have agreed, which makes one wonder just how many medals she could have won.
But Mrs Blankers-Koen kept up her fitness, sometimes by competing against men, and even set some unofficial world records.
With that, please enjoy this interview with Mr. Koen and Mr. Everett.
David Koen, a writer, attorney and her friend, attended her funeral Wednesday.
Located in the southern Higashiyama area, Maruyama Koen is usually a good spot to take in some peace and quiet after temple-hopping in Kyoto.
Trimmer and richer, utilities are now "desperately looking to spend, " says Koen Dierckx, financial analyst at KBC Securities, part of the Belgian KBC banking group.
Should London win its bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games, it will hope that someone of Mrs Blankers-Koen's prodigious talent will set the track alight.
Many of the same images can also be seen in a book published in May by Prestel USA, North Korean Posters: The David Heather Collection, by historian Koen De Ceuster.
In Saturday's early game, fly-half Louis Koen kicked nine goals from 10 attempts to give the Northern Bulls their first Super 12 win outside South Africa, 46-34 over the Wellington Hurricanes.
The Bulls, who remain unbeaten, took a bonus point for four tries, including a penalty try, and Koen added four conversions, five penalties and his fourth dropped goal in two matches.
In 2011, an article in the same journal from a team led by the University of Antwerp's Koen Janssens reported that a pigment Van Gogh favoured called chrome yellow degraded when other, chromium-containing pigments were present.
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