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CORRECTING and REPLACING Record-Breaking Final Preliminary Meet at 30th Anniversary Colgate Women's Games; Elementary School Competitor Breaks Twenty Year-Old 800 Meters Record.


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CORRECTION...by Colgate Colgate may refer to:
  • Colgate-Palmolive, a multinational corporation
  • Colgate (toothpaste), a product of Colgate-Palmolive
 Women's Games

BROOKLYN Brooklyn (brk`lĭn), borough of New York City (1990 pop. 2,300,664), 71 sq mi (184 sq km), coextensive with Kings co., SE N.Y. , N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2004

In BW5314 issued Jan. 19, 2004: First graph, second sentence of release should read: Francis finished the season undefeated with her record-breaking score of 2:22.3.(sted Francis finished the season undefeated with her record-breaking score of 2:20.0.)

The corrected release reads:

RECORD-BREAKING FINAL PRELIMINARY MEET AT 30TH ANNIVERSARY COLGATE WOMEN'S GAMES; ELEMENTARY SCHOOL elementary school: see school.  COMPETITOR BREAKS TWENTY YEAR-OLD 800

METERS RECORD

Claudia Francis of PS 156 in Queens broke a record set in 1983 by Monica Ruiz in the Elementary B division 800 meters at the final preliminary meet of the Colgate Women's Games yesterday at Pratt Institute Pratt Institute, at Brooklyn, N.Y.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1887. Founded by Charles Pratt as a school for practical training, it now offers general and professional studies, including programs in fine arts, art education, art history, library and  in Brooklyn. Francis finished the season undefeated with her record-breaking score of 2:22.3. The previous record, which stood for twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights.
     2.
, was 2:23.33.

More than 12,000 participants in eight age/grade divisions have participated in the nation's largest track series this season, which continues on Saturday January 24, 2004 at Pratt, where some 450 semi-finalists will compete for 240 finalist spots at Madison Square Garden Coordinates:

Current arenas in the National Hockey League

Western Conference Eastern Conference
 on February 7, 2004. Finalists receive trophies, and Colgate-Palmolive Company awards educational grants-in-aid to all first-through-third place winners.

Athletes of all ages across the nation can follow the scores, times and results of races in their own age-grade division at www.colgategames.com. Tickets to the Madison Square Garden finals are free. Visit www.colgategames.com for details.

Complete results by grade division and school are available at www.colgategames.com

After Tuesday, January 20, 2004

PRESS NOTE: A complete list of semi-finalists is available by e-mail. Please request this list and/or press credentials CREDENTIALS, international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials.  to the Madison Square Garden finals via e-mail at colgategames@aol.com
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