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Article: Hewitt targets Olympic Games
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- The Press
- Article date:
- July 26, 2007
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Christchurch athlete Andrea Hewitt may have the form to win a
World Cup but has opted to skip the chance of claiming a world
championship crown.
Hewitt picked up her first World Cup title last weekend when she
won the Kitzbuhel leg of the International Triathlon Union (ITU)
series in Austria.
However, the former under- 23 world champion has chosen not to
start in September's world championships in Hamburg, instead focusing
on qualifying for next year's Olympic Games in China.
The first of two Kiwi qualifying races for next year's games takes
place in Beijing on September 15, just two weeks after the world
championships in Germany.
Hewitt, who is now training at altitude in Font Romeu in ...