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British heroes must avoid hallucination - after the bus tour it's back to the gym

Britain's haul of 47 medals in Beijing must not be allowed to transmute back into plucky failure by 2012 ...full story at Guardian Blogs

from Guardian Blogs on Mon, Aug 25 2008

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