Joanna Hayes
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"Joanna Dove Hayes" is an United States/American hurdler, who won the gold medal in the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles/100 metres hurdles at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

She originally specialized in the 400 metres hurdles. She won the silver medal at the Athletics at the 1999 Summer Universiade/1999 Summer Universiade in a career best time of 54.57 seconds, and the gold medal at the Athletics at the 2003 Pan American Games/2003 Pan American Games. She competed at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics/1999 World Championships and 2003 World Championships in Athletics/2003 World Championships without reaching the final.

From 2004 she competed internationally in the 100 metres hurdles. She finished fourth at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships/2004 World Indoor Championships, and in August she won the Olympic gold medal in a career best time of 12.37 seconds. She also won the 2004 IAAF World Athletics Final/2004 World Athletics Final toward the end of the season.

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My start was pretty bad. After I false-started, I had to sit and hold. My speed is coming. It was a pretty decent time.

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Once we're on that track, it's one lane per person and every person is running for themselves. When we get there I'll focus on me, she'll focus on her and hopefully we'll go 1-2 and bring some medals home for the U.S.

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It was not meant for me to be the world champion. If I was going to get beat, I was going to beat on the ground, and that's what happened - I got beat on the ground. I'm either the world champion, or I'm nothing, and I'm nothing. This will be all over, and I will move on.

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The indoor season is fun and a good way for us to work on our starts. The thing about the 60 is that if you don't have a good start, you're done.

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I'm not really an indoor runner, being from the West Coast. But indoors is fun and it's a great way to work on your starts. If you get a bad start indoors, you can kiss a win good-bye.

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I figure as long as it's not just raining in my lane, then all eight women will have to go through the same thing.

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