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Dancing Queen

AFP, Athens
She is blonde, she is Swedish and she likes to party. And at the Olympic Games on Saturday, Carolina Kluft confirmed her status as the best all-round woman athlete in the world.
Kluft's victory in the heptathlon also made her one of the few stars of athletics whose fame transcends the sport.
At the age of 21, the ebullient Swede has taken this gruelling sevendiscipline event to a level not reached since the early 1990s when the queen of the event, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, retired from the sport with two Olympic heptathlon titles to her name.
Kluft has gone from winning world junior titles in 2000 and 2002 to dominating the senior event in an incredibly short space of time -- normally athletes require several years just to adapt to the higher demands of making that step up.
Her score of 6,952 points was her second best ever but left her well short of Joyner-Kersee's 16-year-old world record of 7,291.
But Kluft is a young woman governed by far more than the dry statistics
of athletics.
"I don't think about the world record at all. I've got many goals, not just in athletics," Kluft said after her victory.
"My life is much more than athletics and I have got a lot more gold medals to get in my private life, but I am going to keep some of those secret."
As the Swede crossed the line in the event-ending 800 metres after dominating the two days, the quick-thinking stadium organisers ensured she was serenaded in the stadium by Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.
SEE PAGE 14 COL 8 And Kluft, who is engaged to Swedish pole vaulter Patrik Kristiansson, said she had no plans to follow her international teammates, high jumper Kajsa Bergqvist and triple jumper Christian Olsson, and move to the tax haven of Monaco.
"I love Sweden," she said.
"In Sweden I have my friends and my family, my coach and my training mate. I like to visit other countries but I will live in Sweden."
Her success at the Olympics combined with her looks and personality have already made Kluft highly attractive to sponsors -- her shoe company was pairing her with China's NBA basketball star Yao Ming for a press conference less than 24 hours after she had secured the gold medal.
Kluft protests that many people forget she is only 21 -- and wants to be allowed some of the freedoms of other people her age.