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Isinbayeva to come back in winter
Double Olympic pole-vault champion and world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva announced on Saturday that she will make her competitive comeback in the winter, at the start of the indoor season.
The Russian is training in Italy and she took the opportunity on the eve of an international meeting in Rieti, to the north of Rome, to announce her proposed come-back.
Isinbayeva had been taking a break from the sport after failing to record a height at the World Championships in Berlin last year and a lowly fourth-placed finish at the World Indoors in Doha in March.
"I've rediscovered the hunger," the 28-year-old told a press conference.
"I will come back to competition next year. I feel like a new person and I have to prove to myself that I can start again from scratch, that I can be the best."
Isinbayeva has set 27 world records during a glittering career,
during which she set the current mark of 5.06m.
