The Australian athletics team has been using Tonbridge School, one of the country's leading boys' boarding schools, as its training camp.
The women's race was won by front-running Heather Turland, a mother of four who at 38 is the oldest competitor ever named on an Australian athletics team.
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Parminder Singh, India's national athletics coach, took a team to compete in relay races and sprints.
The Raiders football team and the Athletics baseball club play at the facility, built in 1966.
Following the findings of initial tests, the IAAF asked South Africa to withdraw her from their team for Germany but Athletics South Africa (ASA) insisted she should run.
Ferguson's 26-year reign stretches beyond those of all coaches in the history of the NBA or NHL. In baseball and the NFL, meanwhile, only four men have stuck around a single team longer: The Philadelphia Athletics' Connie Mack, the New York (baseball) Giants' John McGraw, the Dallas Cowboys' Tom Landry, and the Green Bay Packers' Curly Lambeau.
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He said he wasn't much of a team sports fan, preferring individual athletics, such as tennis.
While he was at Edinburgh University, Liddell excelled at athletics and also played rugby for the Scottish national team - as well as being a noted evangelist preacher.
Chambers was banned for two years in 2003 for a positive drug test, but is delighted to be back in the Great Britian team and enjoying the support of UK Athletics ahead of a season that also includes the European Championships in Barcelona in July.
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As the sport continued on the third day of competition, discuss thrower Aled Davies helped GB to surpass its athletics gold medal haul at Beijing in 2008 with the team's third.
Suhr's pole-vaulting win was the second gold medal the U.S. track-and-field team has secured during three full days of athletics competitions, following Sanya Richards-Ross winning the women's 400-meter race on Sunday night.
The public on the whole don't appreciate that just getting through each day as a mother who is disabled, for example, can take as much hard work and effort as athletics training, but with no sponsors, coaches or team-mates to back you up.
The team is smaller than usual in part because some athletes have been given extra time to recover from last October's Commonwealth Games but UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee insisted he was still confident the team could amass a healthy medal haul.
For about two years, the British team tried to persuade me to come to one of their athletics training camps, but it took a lot of encouragement.
Farah will be part of a strong Great Britain team with the final squad to be confirmed after the UK Athletics (UKA) trials in Liverpool on 28 November.
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