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Defending champion Phil Mickelson was six shots back alongside PGA champion Keegan Bradley and Ryan Palmer.
World 3, 000m steeplechase champion Saif Saaeed Shaheen of Qatar and European champion Sergiy Lebid also run.
The Australian Open champion was joined in the third round by 2003 Toronto champion Andy Roddick.
Ashado, trained by Todd Pletcher, was champion 3-year-old female in 2004 and champion older female in 2005.
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They work for ten years climbing the ladder from district champion, to national champion, and ultimately, to Olympic athlete.
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Also confirmed for Birmingham are former Olympic triple jump champion Christian Olsson and current 1500m and 10, 000m Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele.
Haye claimed a majority points decision over the reigning champion to become Britain's first heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis retired in 2003.
Christopher Chestnut, an attorney for Champion's parents, said Pam and Robert Champion, Sr. were pleased with Ashton's decision to upgrade the charges.
The latest, launched on September 3rd, features Katarina Witt, East Germany's former Olympic ice-skating champion and Henry Maske, a boxing world champion.
Downhill world champion John Kucera and World Cup slalom champion Jean-Baptiste Grange are just two who will miss next year's Winter Olympics through injury.
Masters champion Mike Weir lies second on level par, with Open champion Ben Curtis one over and USPGA winner Shaun Micheel two strokes back.
The WBA light-welterweight champion's first title defence will be his first Saturday night headline show but Rees admits he is still an unknown champion.
Two other Russians, two-time world 1500m champion Tatyana Tomashova and former world indoor champion Yelena Soboleva, were given two-year doping bans before the last Olympics.
Former world No. 1 Kaymer was thrashed 5 and 4 by 25th-ranked defending champion Hunter Mahan, who earned a quarterfinal against U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson.
Briton Haye, 29, says he now wants to fight either WBC champion Vitali Klitschko or his brother Wladimir, who is the WBO, IBF and IBO champion.
Ethiopia's world indoor champion Deresse Mekonnen claimed a surprise silver with defending champion Bernard Lagat, also Kenyan-born but now competing for the United States, in bronze.
Gibilisco is coached by Ukrainian guru of the event Vitaly Petrov, the early coach and mentor to six-times world champion and 1988 Olympic champion Sergey Bubka.
Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu has another chance to take on world champion Sanya Richards in the 400m, while world bronze medallist Jenny Meadows goes in the 800m.
Woods is defending champion at Bay Hill, beating 2010 U.S. Open champion Graeme Dowell by five shots last year to secure his first tournament win since 2009.
Retired British champion Frankel, who won 14 races on the trot, chose Royal Ascot's Champion Stakes to make his final appearance, drawing a sellout crowd of 32, 000.
This time, he has a comfortable margin over U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson and former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel, who each thought they did well for a 68.
The former world champion streaked away from the field for a clear victory in 11.06 seconds ahead of Ukraine's Zhanna Block and Jamaican Commonwealth champion Sherri Ann Brooks.
British Open champion Darren Clarke also recorded a round of 70 but fellow Northern Irishman and 2010 U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell slumped to a round of one-over.
Djokovic will next play the winner of Friday's semifinal between No. 2 Roger Federer, a four-time Australian Open champion, and No. 3 Andy Murray, the U.S. Open champion.
She will be up against two-times New York champion Jelena Prokopcuka, Berlin marathon champion Gete Wami, 2007 world champion Catherine Ndereba and 2007 Boston marathon champion Lidiya Grigoryeva.
But Burns is the real star of the show after progressing from Commonwealth champion to world champion, by dint of his stunning WBO super-featherweight title win over Roman Martinez in October.
Rosberg got the better of teammate Michael Schumacher, finishing third to the former world champion's fifth position, with world champion Jenson Button separating the pair in fourth place.
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