BUDAPEST: Most of the world’s premier athletes gave the World Indoors Championships a wide berth, sensing there was more to lose than gain in Olympic year. Maria Mutola, however, rarely follows in the footsteps of others.
Any of her rivals hoping for signs of pre-Athens weakness were left rudely disappointed as Mutola, her appetite for battle as avaricious as ever, notched up a record-breaking sixth world indoors title on Sunday.
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