Word: birkenhead
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...home to South Africa, where her parents were in the process of separating. She announced she was giving up international competition, but soon changed her mind and in December returned to the European circuit. Some old foes were waiting. In the midst of a February cross-country race in Birkenhead, England, two antiapartheid demonstrators rushed into her path, forcing her to drop out. A month later she won the world cross-country championship in Lisbon by a stunning 23 sec. but raced erratically after that...