It was the first World Cup women's race held at Meribel since 1994, and only the sixth ever.
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But Jordaan is confident that the first World Cup to be played in Africa will make the continent proud.
The 22-year-old from Barbados took the first World Cup hat-trick by a West Indian in superb figures of 6-27.
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It was the first World Cup hat-trick since Portugal's Pauleta in 2002 and the first from an Argentine since Gabriel Batistuta in 1998.
The Great Britain team for the first World Cup regatta of the season in Linz, Austria (1-3 June) will be announced in early May.
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Fifa also vowed it would ensure that no confirmed hooligans would make it to the first World Cup finals to be staged in Asia.
But I think my biggest highlight was last year in Madrid when Alistair won the first World Cup he competed in after returning from injury.
To themselves and their fans they are still the giants of old, the kings of the global game who staged and won the first World Cup.
France, the 1998 winners and 2006 runners-up, will play hosts South Africa, Mexico and Uruguay, who staged and triumphed at the first World Cup in 1930.
Leicester centre Dan Hipkiss, who made his debut in the first World Cup warm-up Test against Wales, makes the cut, as does Jamie Noon after a strong display against France.
England are the only one of eight major international sides not to have won an ICC tournament - a miserable run dating back to the first World Cup in 1975.
Organisers are hoping the first World Cup to be played on African soil will produce 'Football for a Better World' and Fifa will flag up preparations on Friday at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.
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Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, who won the first World Cup in 1996 with Cigar, said he hopes Royal Delta "breaks well and has a clean trip, " from the No. 8 post.
The 12 group winners and the best eight runners-up advance to the final qualifying phase where they will be split into five groups with the winners joining hosts South Africa at the first World Cup to be staged by Africa.
Wednesday's board meeting was the first the World Cup winner has attended.
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Ageing former South African president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela, one of the architects of the first African World Cup, will address the audience by video message.
Great Britain did not compete in the first of the three World Cup races, in the Czech Republic earlier this month.
Mexico and France met in the first ever World Cup finals match in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930, with Les Bleus cruising to a 4-1 victory, but this keenly contested encounter was never likely to reproduce such a scoreline.
Sylvain Ndiaye also trained for the first time at the World Cup, increasing Metsu's midfield options prior to the decisive game.
Sadly, sang-froid was in short supply Stateside, and by the time Casey arrived in Seville for the first round of the World Cup, the Americans had manned the barricades.
Questioned on the contract for the first time during the World Cup, O'Sullivan insisted on Saturday there would be no knee-jerk reactions to events of the past two weeks.
The snow (or "Champagne powder, " as the locals boast) is so reliable that each season, the first event of the World Cup skiing calendar is held at Lake Louise.
The new 12% figure will only be for the first round of the World Cup in South Africa, with the total returning to about eight percent for matches in the knockout phase.
Paraguay won the first penalty shoot-out of the 2010 World Cup to reach the last eight for the first time and clinch a quarter-final place against either Spain or Portugal .
But they have suffered a marked downturn in fortunes since then and having failed to progress beyond the first round of the 2003 World Cup on home soil, they have lost 11 of their last 12 one-day internationals.
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Reaching South Africa had been a long-held mission for Egypt, who last qualified for the 1990 World Cup, yet a lacklustre display means they miss the continent's first World Cup.
Libya, Tunisia and Egypt are the other three countries bidding to become the First African host of the World Cup, the winners will be announced by Fifa on 15 May in Zurich.
In a stunning upset Sunday, Spain was sent home from the Olympics with a 1-0 loss to Honduras, eliminating one of the gold-medal favorites at the group stage and ending Spain's bid to become the first nation to hold the World Cup, European and Olympic soccer titles at the same time.
The ICC Intercontinental Cup was won last year and a first appearance in the World Cup next March was secured when they reached the final of last summer's ICC Trophy.
Egypt is one of five African countries bidding to become the continent's first host of the World Cup, Fifa have already been to South Africa, Morocco, Libya and Tunisia.
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