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Blog: Fountain Takes Bronze
BEIJING — Kettering’s Hyleas Fountain won the Olympic bronze medal in the women’s heptathlon here Saturday night and immediately afterward — with the National Stadium on its feet cheering and the American flag wrapped around her shoulders — she took a celebratory lap around the track with the entire rest of the field.
Along the way she found herself fighting tears when she thought about how her dream — first embraced as a child and in the past year polished mostly in solitude on the tracks at Fairmont High and Central State University — had finally been realized.
She finished with 6,619 points. Ukrainian gold medalist Natalia Dobrynska had 6,733 points. Silver medalist Lyudmila Blonska, also Ukrainian, finished with 6,700.
Fountain was first in three of the four events — 100 meter hurdles, high jump and 200 meters— in Friday’s first day of competition and had the lead overnight.
Saturday, she finished seventh in the long jump, 18th in the javelin throw and seventh in the final event, the 800 meter run, where she ran a personal record 2:15.45 and likely saved her medal.
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By MIKE FERGUSON
August 20, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this
CONGRATS FOR A JOB WELL DONE…ALL THAT HARD WORK PROVED MOST BENEFICIAL..JUST THINK ABOUT THE LORD AND HOW HE HAS GIVEN YOU THE DESIRES OF YOUR HEART…HE’S BEEN WATCHING OVER YOU ALL THIS TIME AND WATCHING YOU MATURE IN LIFE..BLESS THE LORD IN ALL THAT YOU DO AND SAY…TREMENDOUS JOB AND CONGRATS AGAIN….YOUR AWESOME AND SO DESERVING…MIKE AN DIANE FERGUSON
By MIKE FERGUSON
August 20, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this
CONGRATS FOR A JOB WELL DONE…ALL THAT HARD WORK PROVED MOST BENEFICIAL..JUST THINK ABOUT THE LORD AND HOW HE HAS GIVEN YOU THE DESIRES OF YOUR HEART…HE’S BEEN WATCHING OVER YOU ALL THIS TIME AND WATCHING YOU MATURE IN LIFE..BLESS THE LORD IN ALL THAT YOU DO AND SAY…TREMENDOUS JOB AND CONGRATS AGAIN….YOUR AWESOME AND SO DESERVING…MIKE AN DIANE FERGUSON
By MIKE FERGUSON
August 20, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this
CONGRATS FOR A JOB WELL DONE…ALL THAT HARD WORK PROVED MOST BENEFICIAL..JUST THINK ABOUT THE LORD AND HOW HE HAS GIVEN YOU THE DESIRES OF YOUR HEART…HE’S BEEN WATCHING OVER YOU ALL THIS TIME AND WATCHING YOU MATURE IN LIFE..BLESS THE LORD IN ALL THAT YOU DO AND SAY…TREMENDOUS JOB AND CONGRATS AGAIN….YOUR AWESOME AND SO DESERVING…MIKE AN DIANE FERGUSON
By Kevin S.
August 17, 2008 6:52 AM | Link to this
Tbill, hardly anybody lives in the same place all their lives any more, so everybody’s got multiple places claiming them.
By karen
August 16, 2008 10:55 PM | Link to this
Congratulations Hyleas! Job well done.
By Michael
August 16, 2008 7:58 PM | Link to this
Tbill, let’s see: she chose to come here to live, train and work the last few years. Guess that makes her part of “here.”
By tbill
August 16, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this
Born in Georgia, went to school in Pennsylvania. Now she’s a “Kettering woman”? We somehow take credit for people who grew up elsewhere and move here or grew up here and leave. How’s that?