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Female biathletes scrounge for funding

“Try running up 10 flights of stairs as fast as you can, then thread a needle. Five times,” explained Canadian biathlete Megan Imrie to Dave Perkins in the Star.com. Perkins does a great job of describing the plight of female athletes who struggle for sponsorship for their sport. In fact, these Candian women are the same ones we referred to at The WON a while back in reference to their fund-raising nude calendar. See the article here: http://olympics.thestar.com/2010/article/770410–biathletes-have-gun-will-grovel

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