Badurova hopes to be fit for Olympics despite surgery

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http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breakingnew ... 04,00.html

Badurova hopes to be fit for Olympics despite surgery
PRAGUE, Jan 23 (Reuters) - World pole vault silver medallist Katerina Badurova is hopeful of being fit for the Beijing Olympics despite tearing ligaments in her right knee.
"I twisted my knee during a rotation," she told the Czech Athletic Federation's Web site (www.atletika.cz) on Wednesday.
Badurova suffered the injury at a Canary Islands training camp over the weekend and had surgery in Czech Republic on Tuesday.
She will miss the European winter season but hopes to be back in training ahead of the Olympics which start in August.
Badurova was second to Russian Yelena Isinbayeva at the 2007 world championships in Osaka.
(Reporting by Dusan Bucanek, Editing by Tony Jimenez)

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I guess she never made it? Anyone know how she is doing?

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OK word on the street is she was able to come back and compete once in time to qualify for the Olympics, so she will be there!