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Photograph: Luis Acosta/ AFP/ Getty Images 12.00pm BST And she looks happy despite qualifying 8th fastest in the heats.

Phil Mickelson, the reigning Houston Open champion, has not played here since 2001 despite qualifying for it every season except 2003.

Despite qualifying as economists, engineers or philologists, many of them end up—at least to start with in menial jobs on farms or in hotels abroad.

The Whalers did win the first W.H.A. championship in Boston in 1973, but never came close to capturing the Stanley Cup, despite qualifying for the playoffs eight times.

But despite qualifying for his second consecutive Olympic Games and setting an Olympic trials record along the way (27 minutes 36.49 seconds), Keflezighi said afterward that he might not even run the 10K in Athens.

Despite qualifying eight boxers for the Games the 65-year-old has received little or no support from boxing chiefs and expressed his disgust at the timing of the ABA's statement yesterday.

Despite emphatically qualifying for the Champions League of arena rock, Biffy's staging remains relatively restrained.

Life is also good for Svetlana Khorkina, who has won five world titles on the uneven bars, despite not qualifying for today's bars final.

But he admitted beating Alonso would not be easy because of the Spaniard's consistent ability to finish on the podium despite usually qualifying outside the top five.

Georgi Stancualte, 25, from Transylvania in Romania, is staying with cousins in London and plans to work in construction, despite recently qualifying as an engineer.

Despite not qualifying, Burbank's Dennis Palacio competed in three events, setting a personal best of 20-11 in the long jump and also clocking 16.22 in the 110-meter high hurdles and finishing with a 41.48 in the 300 hurdles.