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"Issajenko's story embraces her early life in Jamaica, her introduction to track and field sports in public school, entering high school at the age of twelve, and her first serious competition a year later when she was disappointed with a second place finish. She had already become used to winning. In early 1975 she joined her mother in Toronto and won her first province-wide high school championship, a 100-metre sprint in Kingston in 1977. She m...
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