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'Flying Housewife' put women on sporting map - Times Online
SportAthletics SHOP My Profile Sitemap From The Times May 5, 2008 'Flying Housewife' put women on sporting map Janie Hampton Women have always had to fight hard to competelong jump. Tall, sharp-featured and flaxen haired, she was now a world record-holder in six events and nicknamed “the Flying Housewife”. The heats for the women's 100 metre dash had been run on Saturday, and on Monday, August 2 theworld and Olympic record. By the end of Wednesday, August 4, Fanny Blankers-Koen had been competing for six days and the strain of her success was getting to her: “I was missing my children and while the heats were OK because I was
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