Athletics' Barber vying for Vancouver bobsleigh spotTwo-time world athletics champion Eunice Barber Eunice Barber (born November 17, 1974 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is an athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump. Barber initially competed for Sierra Leone and then for France from 1999 onwards. has joined the French women's bobsleigh squad in a bid to win a place for the Vancouver Olympics in February 2010, it was announced Saturday. A spokesman from the French winter sports winter sports: see bobsledding; curling; hockey, ice; ice dancing; ice skating; skiing; snowshoes; tobogganing. federation (FFSG), Gerard Courtaud, told AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. Barber will participate in her first bobsleigh training session on the Turin Olympics run at Cesana, Italy beginning Monday. Barber, 34, won the world heptathlon heptathlon: see under decathlon. heptathlon Women's athletics competition. Contestants take part in seven different track-and-field events: 100-m hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump, javelin throw, and 200- and 800-m runs. crown in 1999, adding the world triple jump title in 2003. The Sierra-Leone-born athlete failed to qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. in Beijing and the 2009 world athletics championships held in August in Berlin. Her arrival in the French bobsleigh squad, where she will battle fellow former athletes Sophie Michel and Doriane Remy for a place in the two-woman team for Vancouver, has been warmly welcomed. Canadian-born Lesa Mayes-Stringer Lesa Mayes-Stringer (sometimes shown as Lesa Mayers-Stringer, born Lesa Stringer on May 13, 1968) is a Canadian bobsledder who competed from 2001 to 2006. She finished 11th in the two-woman event at the 2005 FIBT World Championships in Calgary. , who now drives the French team's sled, said: "She's an exceptional athlete and person. When she does something, she gives it 150 percent." Barber has already completed a series of "very promising" dry runs on the athletics track, and now France are hoping to be among the challengers for a medal in Vancouver. "We have a good team and we're counting a lot on them. When it comes to pushing the sled, they will be among the best in the world," said Courtaud. "We are looking to win a medal in Vancouver." 
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