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	Tamsyn Lewis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tamsyn Carolyn Lewis (born July 20, 1978) is an Australian athlete and middle-distance runner.
		At Melbourne 2006, Lewis and her teammates Pittman, Caitlin Willis and Rosemary Hayward were a distant second across the line being well beaten by England; again Lewis had run the third leg, and immediately after the race lodged a protest against Natasha Danvers for a rule breach at the baton change.
		When Tamsyn failed to progress past the heats of her individual event, the 800 metres, both Lewis and her coaches (she is coached by former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe) were force again to defend saying that the photoshoot was not to blame for her result.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tamsyn_Lewis (562 words)

	Olympic legends fast-tracking Tamsyn's push to the top - smh.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Star potential: Tamsyn Lewis and one of her British coaches, Sebastian Coe, with whom she is currently working towards world championship success.
		Lewis has taken a more emotional approach to her sport, and reckons an appearance in the 800m final in the August world championships in Paris will be a natural progression in her athletics evolution.
		For Lewis the depth of her personal relationships with the former British champions is as important to her as their professional dealings.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/04/12/1050069124445.html (628 words)

	Tamsyn Lewis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tamsyn Lewis' main goal in her career is to break the Australian 800m record, which has stood for 23 years at 1:59.0 minutes, and every time she runs the event, she inches a little closer.
		Although Lewis is creeping closer to smashing the Australian record, she is still around six seconds outside the world record of 1:53.87 minutes.
		However, Lewis is still only 22 years of age and has a lot of mileage left in her legs and time to improve.
	www.girl.com.au /tamsynlewis.htm (300 words)

	Sexy photos not to blame: coach - Breaking News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It was unfair to question Tamsyn Lewis' commitment to the Olympics and wrong to blame her poor performances on a raunchy photo shoot, Australia's head athletics coach Keith Connor said.
		Lewis, who is coached by Olympic greats Sebastian Coe and Daley Thompson, defended her poor showing this European season, which was highlighted when she struggled to keep up with the pack in a low-key B race on the weekend.
		Lewis was a semi-finalist at the Sydney Olympics and a regular placegetter on the European circuit in 2000.
	www.theage.com.au - !http: //www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/05/1091557948344.html?oneclick=true (589 words)

	Sydney Olympic Games Athlete Profiles - Tamsyn Lewis (Athletics)
		Tamsyn Lewis is on a personal quest to rewrite the record and almost every time she runs the event, she inches a little closer.
		While that was a disappointing result, Lewis put it behind her at the start of the domestic season with a return to form.
		Lewis says she will continue the hard work until the middle of the year, before heading to Europe to compete on the circuit there ahead of the Olympic trials in August.
	www.abc.net.au /olympics/2000/profiles/TAMSYNLEWIS.htm (540 words)

	Jana Pittman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was also a member of Australia's gold-medal-winning 4x400 m relay team at Manchester in 2002 with Tamsyn Lewis, Cathy Freeman and Lauren Hewitt.
		Her teammate Lewis's criticism of the media publicity surrounding Jana and her knee (which received front page coverage in the tabloids) was the precursor for the current enmity between the two.
		Once again Pittman was a member of Australia's 4x400 m relay team (with Lewis, Caitlin Willis and Rosemary Hayward), which was awarded the gold medal after the disqualification of the England team for a baton-change violation 5.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jana_Pittman (747 words)

	Lewis looks for missing spark - Athletics - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tamsyn Lewis admits she is "chasing her tail" in a race to reach peak fitness before the Olympic Games.
		Lewis and the rest were left floundering, running fast but not in contact.
		Lewis said she had done only two track training sessions in the 18 days leading into last weekend's race.
	www.theage.com.au /olympics/articles/2004/08/03/1091476494257.html (501 words)

	Herald Sun: Tamsyn Lewis won't quit [22mar06]
		Lewis has apologised to her fans, friends and family and has vowed to continue until the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
		Lewis was consoled after the race by her brother, parents Greg and Carolyn and new boyfriend, South Australian cricketer Graham Manou.
		Lewis will stick with her brother Justin in the build-up to next year's world titles, but is expected to again call on Daley Thompson and Lord Sebastian Coe.
	www.heraldsun.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5478,18555049^2862,00.html (603 words)

	Athletics Australia - Athletes, Coaches & Officials - Athlete Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tamsyn was the youngest member of the Commonwealth Games team in 1994 at age 16.
		Tamsyn is still very proficient over 400m and was part of the silver medal 4x400m team at the 1999 World Indoors.
		Lewis continues her comeback from injury with victory at the Telstra A-series in Brisbane.
	www.athletics.org.au /athletes/profiles/profile.cfm?ObjectID=123 (900 words)

	Tamsyn keen to hand baton to Jana \| \| The Australian
		Lewis is hoping the relay makes up for the bitter disappointment of missing out on a spot in the 400m final.
		Lewis watched Pittman's win on Thursday night in the 400m hurdles from her bayside home.
		Pittman's performance in winning the 400m hurdles will rate as one of the highlights of the Games, with Lewis believing the 23 year old is back on track in her quest for gold in Beijing.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,18589677-23218,00.html (394 words)

	Crapping on about whatever I feel like: Go team!
		As for Tamsyn Lewis, she seems to have a much higher public profile through TV and other appearances than her successes as an athlete warrant.
		Lewis needs to focus on her running if she is to succeed at the level Pittman has.
		I read a story about government funding of sports on the weekend and saw that Tamsyn Lewis had received funding of $217k in the past 6 years from Athletics Australia and the Victorian Institute of Sport.
	craponwhatever.blogspot.com /2006/03/go-team.html (785 words)

	Tamsyn just doesn't rate \| The Courier-Mail
		COMMONWEALTH record-holder Sandie Richards has launched a stinging attack on fellow 400m runner Tamsyn Lewis, labelling her a joke who attacks other athletes to draw glory and sponsorship.
		Richards, who will run against Lewis and Pittman in the 4x400m relay, has been in Melbourne since January and become increasingly annoyed at the self-serving antics of Lewis.
		Richards was aghast at last Thursday's World Athletics Tour meeting at Olympic Park when Lewis came third in her race but garnered all the media attention.
	www.thecouriermail.news.com.au /story/0,20797,18440224-23218,00.html (854 words)

	She poisoned our team: Pittman accuses rival - Sport - smh.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		TAMSYN LEWIS has laughingly dubbed it a "bitch fight" and a "catfight".
		Lewis, 27, took the national title, while Pittman, 23, described it as the worst race of her life.
		Lewis told Triple M radio on Monday: "Obviously, with the catfight and the bitch fight and whatever else was being said, and then after the heats, she [Pittman] came out and said that there was no competition.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2006/02/07/1139074229545.html?from=top5 (768 words)

	Townsville Bulletin: Lewis bares claws in 'catfight' [ 07feb06 ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lewis said all her focus was on beating Pittman in the lead-up to the 400m final, in which she finished second to New Zealand's Jane Arnott.
		Lewis last night said her comments on radio weren't vindictive.
		But Lewis, 27, was incensed with Pittman's comments that she could've won the 400m final at 15, so she must have been sick on Friday night.
	www.townsvillebulletin.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,7034,18062344^23209,00.html (406 words)

	The Daily Telegraph \| We can win
		Adding intrigue to the relay, Lewis could even hand the baton to Pittman -- the girl she's had a running battle with on and off the track for the past 18 months.
		Lewis called Pittman a "drama queen" in the lead-up to the Games and Jana responded by referring to Lewis as "a bikini babe".
		The Pittman v Lewis battle was a knockout win for Jana who won gold in the 400 hurdles while Lewis turned in a shocker to miss out on a spot in the 400m final.
	dailytelegraph.news.com.au /story/0,20281,18590473-5001023,00.html (234 words)

	World-Track:: Australians Jana, Tamsyn call truce
		Australian athletes Tamsyn Lewis and Jana Pittman has ended their feud at least with just a simple phone call.
		Reports from Australia stated that a phone call from Pittman to Lewis during her honeymoon with husband Chris Rawlinson brought about the latest cease fire between the teammates from Australia's gold-medal winning 4x400m relay team at the Commonwealth Games in March.
		England athletics team head coach Brad McStravick said that in her letter of apology Pittman had "blamed it on Tamsyn going to the officials and pointing out the fact that our girl was in the wrong place".
	www.world-track.org /KIND0006/janalewis=fued=end.htm (369 words)

	Crapping on about whatever I feel like: Go Jana!
		I was bloody sick of their so called feud, and both of them should let their sporting deeds do their talking for them and shut the fuck up.
		But a really sad finish to the athletics with Tamsyn Lewis' shameful antics to strip Gold from England, and dreadful double standards by Officials and Team Australia whose outgoing runner in the Mens 4 x 400 carelessly impeded two other teams after the second leg.
		Tamsyn Lewis has a gold, it was the only way she could get one.
	craponwhatever.blogspot.com /2006/03/go-jana.html (595 words)

	The Sunday Mail QLD: Tam a money sham [26mar06] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In return, Lewis has produced one medal – Commonwealth gold as part of the women's 4x400m relay in Manchester four years ago.
		Lewis has failed to eclipse her personal best 400m time (51.51sec) for the past six years but Athletics Australia continues to invest heavily in her.
		Yet despite her mediocre results – she was ranked 115th in the 400m last year – Lewis still receives significant funding in her quest for an individual medal Boyle believes she cannot win.
	www.thesundaymail.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5936,18601188^2764,00.html (602 words)

	The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: News Blog / What would you say to them? Archives
		Posted by: Grow up Tamsyn at February 9, 2006 10:25 AM Pittman is diverting attention away from her poor form.Get over it and on with it.Do what you are sponsered to do and stop making an ass of yourself.
		Lewis might not take the sport as seriously, however, she doesn't approach it with even a shred of the arrogance that Pittman does.
		Posted by: Melissa at February 9, 2006 08:30 AM Whilst Tamsyn Lewis could have been a little more selective in her wording, it is obvious that her quotes & listening to what she said on the radio that she had her tongue planted firmly in cheek.
	blogs.smh.com.au /newsblog/archives/your_say/003542.html (5149 words)

	The Sunday Mail QLD: Pittman's plea to former friend [02feb06] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		"Tamsyn and I were best friends and I hope one day to be friends with her again," Pittman said.
		When Pittman injured her knee on the eve of the Athens Olympics and was forced to fly to England for surgery, the London-based Lewis was one of the first to comfort her.
		Lewis, who has also entered in her pet event the 800m at the trials, said earlier this week she took the "bikini babe" line as a compliment.
	www.thesundaymail.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5936,18008743^23218,00.html (706 words)

	Jana a drama unresolved - The Nation - Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au
		She has led the public on a charade by embroiling Jana in a spat...drawn her to the gutter...clearly Tamsyn is not in the same conversation as Jana as an athlete or as a person...stick to dressing down clothes Tamsyn...not other athletes!!
		Given Tamsyn Lewis' profile, you'd assume she was a superior athlete....
		Tamsyn is the equivalent of Anna Kournikova - more famous for her media and men's magazines appearances than her sporting ability.
	www.news.com.au /story/0,10117,18586372-421,00.html (3840 words)

	Day One - Australian Athletics Championships - News section - Time-to-Run - Headline and Site news
		Three finals, plenty of interest in the opening heats of the short sprint and the prospect of an interesting battle in the 400m finals between Jana Pittman and Tamsyn Lewis were the highlights of the opening day of the Telstra Selection trials and 84th Australian Athletics Championships in Sydney today.
		Queensland’s Caitlin Willis won her heat in 53.41 and Tamsyn Lewis looked easy in winning heat three in 53.60.
		Lewis declined to discuss her run with reporters, whilst Pittman indicated that a quick time was required in the final to convince her to attempt the 400m/400m hurdles "Debbie-double" in Melbourne.
	www.time-to-run.com /news/2006/jan-mar/020206aus.htm (1135 words)

	Games team moves to end Jana-Tamsyn rift
		Team chef de mission John Devitt said Lewis and Pittman were both highly valued and well-performed members of the 2006 Australian Commonwealth Games team.
		Lewis and Pittman had both been spoken to by the Australian Commonwealth Games Association after breaking a gagging order and discussing their feud in the media.
		But the feud resurfaced again on Monday with Jamaican 400m runner Sandy Richards criticising Lewis in The Australian and revealing that Lewis's mother had asked Olympic gold medallist Cathy Freeman to help her daughter warm-up and prepare for the Games.
	news.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=91152 (514 words)

	Pittman, Lewis back to bitching
		Jana Pittman has reportedly accused her former best friend and fellow 400m-runner Tamsyn Lewis of creating a "very evil atmosphere" in the Australian athletics team.
		Pittman responded by suggesting that Lewis was more interested in being a "bikini babe" than a runner, in reference to Lewis' photo shoots for Ralph magazine.
		Lewis told the Nine Network "it was a joke".
	news.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=85642 (551 words)

	Sportal.com.au - Other Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A phone call from Pittman to Lewis during her honeymoon with husband Chris Rawlinson brought about the latest cease fire between the teammates from Australia's gold-medal winning 4x400m relay team at the Commonwealth Games in March.
		The truce comes after Lewis told a Melbourne radio station that she'd 'had an absolute gutful' of Pittman and did not want 'anything to do with her ever again'.
		Lewis' comments came after Pittman offered to hand her gold medal to the England team, who were controversially disqualified in Melbourne.
	www.sportal.com.au /othersports.asp?i=news&id=81185 (215 words)

	New Zealand's source for sport, rugby, cricket & league news on Stuff.co.nz: 'Bitch fight' amongst Aussie runners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lewis told Triple M radio on Monday: "Obviously, with the catfight and the bitch fight and whatever else was being said, and then after the heats, she [Pittman]; came out and said that there was no competition.
		Lewis did not return calls last night but has insisted her comments were not vindictive.
		Pittman then suggested Lewis, who has posed for Ralph magazine, was more focused on being a "bikini babe" than running.
	www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3565911a1823,00.html (610 words)

	The Chaser - Pittman and Lewis resolve feud: will whinge about other countries instead
		Lewis mounted a protest on a technicality that saw England stripped of their gold, and a delighted Pittman and Lewis promised that from now on, their sniping and poor sportsmanship would be directed exclusively at other countries.
		This is not Pittman and Lewis in the embrace.
		Tamsyn as an athlete is a super(b) model, not an entirely hopeless runner but no international podium waiting, looks great though in the right light with makeup and costume.
	www.chaser.com.au /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3081&Itemid=26 (1867 words)

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