England's Conrad Williams will be the only Home Nations representative in the men's 400m final after finishing second in his heat.

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Perrow, who serves as the ASP surfers' representative and speaks on behalf of the Top 32 ranked men and women, said a move entirely to the cities won't happen on his watch even after New York and San Francisco joined the event calendar last year.

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When I visited last December as the chief representative of the Ford Foundation to review a biodiversity project, the men complained about the lack of access to credits, markets and knowledge to improve their farming.

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Britain has only Andy Murray ranked inside the top 200 of the men's rankings, with Elena Baltacha the sole representative in the women's top 100.

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Bennet remembers that when a representative from Men-A-Vision came by the store, he said that he would have to order them specially if Bennet actually wanted anymore.

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Farah struggled to cope with a world-class field in the men's 3, 000m, where he was the only European representative.

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This is clearly not representative of the population as a whole, given that there are slightly more women in America than there are men, and particularly problematic when we consider that according to the U.S. Census Bureau there are more working women with a college degree than there are working men.

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