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She arrived in France in 1990 and first trained with Fernand Urtebise , who also coached 1997 world 400m hurdles champion Stephane Diagana . She had a hip injury which kept her out of the 2001 World Championships . She was named 1998 European Female Athlete Of The Year .

In 2001 , after a heavy training period in the USA with John Smith and the HSI group, she quit training for a year, saying she was physically exhausted from the experience. "It was hell. Every morning I wondered how I was going to put up with the burden of training."

She won the bronze medal in the 4x100m Relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece .

In June 2002 she also gave birth to her first child. In August 2005 she won a bronze medal in the 100 meters and in the 200 meters at the 2005 World Championships In Athletics .


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