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Four World Leads In Beijing's Bird's Nest StadiumPublished by IAAF on May 20, 2015 Four world leads highlighted the IAAF World Challenge meeting in Beijing, and there was an attempt on Zhu Jianhua’s iconic national record in the high jump by Zhang Guowei on Wednesday night (20). David Oliver and Wenda Nel set world-leading times in the hurdles, as a crowd of more than 40,000 watched in the stadium which will host the 2015 IAAF World Championships. The day before the Beijing meeting, Oliver was outlining his competitive philosophy to a group of media representatives. In a nutshell, it boiled down to always putting everything on the line every time you compete because you never know what is coming next. Several athletes who competed on Sunday at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Shanghai showed signs of weariness as the show moved north to Beijing, but not Oliver. He gave the same 100 per cent effort he had given in winning four days earlier. As he crossed the line 0.22 seconds ahead of Orlando Ortega on this occasion – it was just 0.02 on Sunday – the time initially was displayed as identical as in Shanghai, 13.17. But it was soon adjusted to 13.15 and the man who won at the World Championships in Moscow two years ago now stands at the top of the pile again. Read the full article at: www.iaaf.org
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