World of a Difference for Former Briton May; Institute Would Have Kept Fiona
The Herald › February 07, 2004
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TAKING an awed look around Sheffield's (pounds) 28m indoor sports facility yesterday, Fiona May ventured that her career would have been radically different had this athletics arena existed a decade ago.
The Leeds graduate won the world junior long jump title for Britain and then took silver at the 1991 World Student Games in Sheffield. It has been a source of permanent angst to the sport that she subsequently defected, citing lack of financial support and poor facilities.See the full content of this document
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World of a Difference for Former Briton May; Institute Would Have Kept Fiona
"Life might have been very different for me if this had been here then," she said. "I'd probably still have been coached in Italy, but I would not have been competing for Italy."
She married pole vaulter and long jumper Gianni Iapichino (they met in a disco when she won that 1988 junior crown) and he now coaches her....See the full content of this document
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