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Highlights – World Indoor Championships, Final Day
12 March 2006 - Moscow, Russia - As the curtain came down on the 11th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Moscow tonight, a version of the Queen song ‘It’s a kind of Magic’ beamed out across the Olimpiyskiy Arena. What a fitting tribute.
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IAAF Editorial and Writing team in Moscow
20 March 2006 - Moscow, Russia - The written coverage of the 11th IAAF World Indoor Championships, Moscow, Russia (10 -12 March) was brought to you by the following - 
Evergreen Mutola
12 March 2006 - Moscow, Russia - When Maria Mutola won her first indoor title in 1993, runner-up Kenia Sinclair (JAM) was not yet a teenager. Hasna Benhassi (MAR), the bronze medallist here, was barely into her teens. 13 years later, the pair are world class athletes, but are still...
Slesarenko out-foxes Vlasic - Moscow
12 March 2006 - Moscow, Russia - Let’s hear it for the small people. Even as she stood on the podium, Yelena Slesarenko was shorter than silver medallist, Blanca Vlasic, but the Russian was the one with the gold. It’s not always about being tall, as Stefan Holm w...
Niklaus’ brilliant two event surge snatches ‘Clay’s gold’ - Moscow
12 March 2006 – Moscow, Russia - The occasion was probably too much for Andre Niklaus. “I started competing in the Decathlon in 1986,” he said.
Kotova hits 7m on first - Moscow
12 March 2004 - Moscow, Russia - Tatyana Kotova had been waiting for this since Helsinki when the unsung Tianna Madison snatched gold from her grasp in the Finnish rain. This time there was to be no surprise, as the Russian killed the competition off in round one wit...
World Indoor Championships - Expected Highlights, DAY THREE
12 March 2006 - Moscow, Russia - Did Bryan Clay sleep well? It is a question posed because he entered the first day of the men’s Heptathlon at the 11th IAAF World Indoor Championships after a restless Friday night and still produced a stunn...
LIVE 'Event by Event' Reports from Moscow
12 March 2006 - Moscow, Russia - Written coverage of the 11th IAAF World Indoor Championships Moscow, Russia (10 - 12 March) on the IAAF Website:
Rybakov finally gets the better of Holm - Moscow
12 March 2006 - Moscow, Russia - For arch-rival Stefan Holm, in the Moscow Olympic arena yesterday it was the 90th time in his career that he went over 2.30m, but it was not a statistic that would trouble the eventual winner from Russia, Yaroslav Ryba...
Highlights – World Indoor Championships, Second Day
11 March 2006 – Moscow, Russia - It is often said winning a World title for the second time is harder than the first. There is expectation, there is pressure and sometimes the desire might not be the same. Goodbye to theories then from the 11th IAA...
