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Mon 03 Mar 2010Aspiring to get top athletes indoors

ATHLETICS WORLD INDOOR:As the World Indoor Championships loom, IAN O'RIORDANlooks at what our top athletes have to put up with in the quest for medals

DOHA, QATAR. A city of one million people. Founded in 1825. Fiendishly hot for a lot of the year. Zero athletic tradition. And from Friday, for three days, the venue for the 13th World Indoor Athletics Championships