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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/35b5611e-a9bf-4220-92e1-a922649e0b6c/4F66791F-A326-4533-8CA6-7DE77C018A9F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/26/newsid_2535000/2535703.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/26/newsid_2535000/2535703.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/26/newsid_2535000/2535703.stm"><FONT size="2">        
	<FONT size="3"><DIV class="hpad"><B>1985: Budd smashes 5,000m record</B></DIV></FONT>
        The controversial athlete, Zola Budd, has broken the world 5,000m record.
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/26/newsid_2535000/2535703.stm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.bbc.co.uk/img/4C29160C-7CF2-4D92-AF13-55108CA9C48E" alt="Zola Budd" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/26/newsid_2535000/2535703.stm"><FONT size="2">The bare-footed runner completed the distance in a time of 14 minutes and 48.07 seconds - 10 seconds faster than the previous record. 
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/26/newsid_2535000/2535703.stm"><FONT size="2">Budd came in nine seconds ahead of second-placed Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway - the former 5,000m record holder.
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/26/newsid_2535000/2535703.stm"><FONT size="2">It is the second time she has broken the 5,000m world record.
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/26/newsid_2535000/2535703.stm"><FONT size="2">The first time was in her homeland of South Africa last year when her achievement could not be recognized as the country is banned from international sport because of its policy of apartheid.
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/26/newsid_2535000/2535703.stm"><FONT size="2">Her participation in the race at Crystal Palace in London was not publicised beforehand to avoid protests by anti-apartheid campaigners.
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/26/newsid_2535000/2535703.stm"><P><FONT size="2"><B>Protests</B></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/26/newsid_2535000/2535703.stm"><FONT size="2">The fast-tracking of South African-born and bred Budd's application for British citizenship - on the strength of a British grandfather - caused uproar last year.
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