Saturday Interview: Gillian Cooke: Cooke Looking to Slay All Comers After Jumping to Winter Sports
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GILLIAN Cooke's calendar turned upside down last year and it's not going to right itself anytime soon. Where once winter was a fallow period for the 26-year-old from Edinburgh and summer her busiest time, now it's the other way round.
From around the turn of the century until 2008, Cooke has been a regular competitor at athletics meetings, initially as a triple- jumper, then in the pole vault, and latterly, with most success, as a long-jumper. This year, she will have no more than the occasional outing at a track-and-field event, as she concentrates instead on her aim of winning bobsleigh gold at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.See the full content of this document
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Saturday Interview: Gillian Cooke: Cooke Looking to Slay All Comers After Jumping to Winter Sports
And it is a realistic aim. In February, just a few months after taking up the sport, Cooke won the world championship alongside Great Britain team-mate Nicola Minichiello. That success ensured Team GB of a place at the Olympics, but Cooke herself faces a fierce fight to hold on to her berth.
She shook up the Britis...See the full content of this document
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