Australian athletes only managed to get two silvers at the Beijing World Athletics Championships. But the good news is that one of them, Jared Tallent, is now a shoo-in for a gold at the Athens Olympics. That’s if the International Athletics Associations Federation accedes to pressure to disqualify his Russian rival for failing a drug test 12 years ago.
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