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World Record Breaker: Anna Meares, Olympic and Commonwealth Games Champion

by Sasha Manuel on November 21st, 2006

Olympic and Commonwealth Games Champion, Anna Meares, today broke her own World Record for the 500m time trial in the morning session of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup at Sydney’s Dunc Gray Velodrome today.

The 23 year-old Queenslander posted a time of 33.944 sec to take eight thousandths off the mark she set to win gold at the Athens Olympic Games in 2004. — cyclingnews.com

Really makes you wonder just how much effort and heart some athletes put into their game. Meares wasn’t just content for achieving something like a world record, she matched it, er, exceeded it the second time around.

It’s kinda sad that she won’t be competing in the upcoming Summer Olympics in Beijing.

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