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Former World Championship medallist Jenny Meadows has confirmed her retirement after missing out on selection for the Rio Olympics. The 35-year-old from Wigan, who won 800 metres bronze at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, competed for the last time in the European Championships semi-final in Amsterdam last week.Meadows finished sixth after suffering a hamstring injury which ended both her hopes of making the final and clinching a place in Britains athletics squad for the Games. Jenny Meadows leads the pack in the 800m semi-final at the European Championships before suffering a hamstring injury Its not the way I wanted to finish my career, admitted the 2011 European indoor 800m champion. I was really nervous before that race because I thought I could qualify for the final. It shows that I still wanted it.Meadows, who competed in the Beijing Olympics but was overlooked for London 2012 after suffering an Achilles injury, thanked her fans for their support on her official website. 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Consider this: At the end of the first quarter Calgary had zero first downs, three yards rushing and 17 yards passing. They were without their best player in Jon Cornish, lost their next best player in that position of running back in Matt Walter to injury and then had to take their best special teams player, Jock Sanders, and move him to running back full time. Overcoming adversity is an absolute key to winning football games and that is what Calgary did and why they won. With Edmonton the internal conclusion will be "they did not beat us, we beat ourselves." And although it is a truthful statement, you have to be careful not to use that as a repeated rationalization. With the bye week upcoming the Eskimos will regroup, but come Aug. 8, Edmonton at Montreal, you will not see a special teams performance like the one we previously saw. Chris Jones will be criticized for his fake punt reverse that ended up in Stampeder points, but were all products of previous associations. 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