Defiant Navratilova Says Age Is No Barrier
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Martina Navratilova has taken a swipe at  critics who think her continued involvement on the women's  circuit reflects poorly on tennis.
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Yelena Isinbayeva is only 24 and has already broken 19 world records (both indoor and outdoor) and won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
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More than a year after Sarah Nome was deemed healthy and given her discharge papers, the 82-year-old woman stubbornly refuses to leave her hospital bed.
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AMERICAN Lindsay Davenport ended 2004 with the WTA world No 1 ranking, while Maria Sharapova, who won the season-ending WTA Tour Championships yesterday, finished at No 4. Sharapova, the Russian 17-year-old
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Fidel Castro says he won't stand in the way of younger people who can lead Cuba, but he also insists on being "of consequence" until the end of his life. So it goes with the ailing 81-year-old Â eager to see others keep up the revolution but reluctant to let go of power.
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Brigitte Bardot, the screen siren of the 60s, makes no bones about turning 70: it's a milestone worthy of celebrating but no great shakes next to her celebrated youth.
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Martina Navratilova exchanges high-fives with her partner after cracking a volley winner and groans when she slaps a shot wide.
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NEW YORK -- She looked her age, finally, bouncing on the court and allowing a scream to take hold of her. She had been waiting for this moment for two long years, two years of losing before even making it back to the final of a major. Two years since winning Wimbledon.
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tennis&#39; grandest title -- the 17-year-old Sharapova fell in the third round of the US Open to Mary Pierce 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. Maria Sharapova wore a black ribbon in honor of the many victims in Russia.
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The Russian invasion and the Rebel Without a Cause outfit seem to be getting most of the headlines in women&#39;s tennis these days, which is just fine by the world&#39;s top-ranked player.
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Tennis authorities have a tough task to stop match-fixing because it is too easy to fix results, said Martina Navratilova.
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Hugues Cuenod, the oldest singer ever to debut at the Metropolitan Opera, celebrates his 105th birthday Tuesday with a message to his younger colleagues: Don't shout.
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SOUTHERN PINES, North Carolina  - Eighteen-year-old Brazilian Angela Park held on to her overnight lead but defending champion Annika Sorenstam made her presence felt with a 70 as the storm-hit first round of the U.S. Women's Open finally ended on Friday.
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Let's get one thing straight right off the bat: Sally Dickerson turned 85 last week and is not retiring anytime soon.
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Serena Williams says she has no regrets about going against doctors&#39; advice to participate in the US Open where she is dominating opponents and enjoying unprecedented crowd support.
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The women&#39;s Olympic triathlon was expected to be a wide open race - but not so open that it could be won by a 34-year-old, ranked 41 in the world, who only took up the sport eight years ago to accompany her husband.
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The treadmill Maria Sharapova has been on since winning Wimbledon earlier this year has spun at blinding speed. From New York to Beijing to Korea to Zurich, the 17-year-old Russian has tried