Lovely Gisela Dulko has knocked Maria Sharapova out of Wimbledon 2009. Sharapova isn't the only screaming female on court but she embodies the new wave of competitors who spoil the restful sound of the English midsummer. Ms Dulko is an unseeded Argentinian tennis player who many Wimbledon TV watchers perhaps won't have heard of until today.
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The Brooks B17 bicycle saddle has been on the market for over 100 years, featuring in the company's catalogue for 1898. Brooks England Ltd still manufacture a wide variety of traditional leather saddles; the iconic Brooks saddle has become a design classic, evoking a bygone age of cycling on the open road, warm summers, and leafy picnics. The B17, from their range of 'Classic Saddles for the serious cyclist', is the flagship model, which Brooks say is ideal for long distance sportive touring, trekking, and all-terrain use. I bought one recently.
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On 15th November 2008, at the age of sixteen, Mike Perham left Portsmouth, England, on a solo non-stop circumnavigation of the globe. Mike is already the youngest person to have sailed alone across the Atlantic, which he did at the age of fourteen. But sixteen is too young an age to sail non-stop around the world, especially in an Open 50 racing yacht built in 1996.
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