Tia Hellebaut is back! by Alfons Juck, Note by Larry Eder

Tia Hellebaut, Olympic gold medalist, high jump, 2008, photo by PhotoRun.net.
She’s baaaacccckkkk! Tia Hellebaut announced today that she is returning to competition!
HELLEBAUT IS BACK
BRUSSELS (BEL): Belgian Olympic High jump Champion Tia Hellebaut has announced her comeback today in a press conference. Hellebaut, who turns 32 today, had ended her career in 2008 after winning the Olympic Gold medal in the Beijing Olympics. On June 9th 2009 she gave birth to her daughter Lotte. Today Tia has expressed her desire to come back on the highest level as training has been going very good in the last couple of weeks. Her main target is London 2012 and high jump.
Special Thanks to Alfons Juck, EME News!
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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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