"It has been quite an ordeal, " said 26-year-old Sharman from Corby, who ran 13.50 secs.

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Constant devaluations of the ruble, power surges, shortages of sugar and a bad water supply conspired to make this quite an ordeal--"like ten years in purgatory, " he recalls.

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It was quite an ordeal.

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