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No repeat Defending high jump champ fails to qualify
SYDNEY, Sept 22 (Reuters) -- Defending Olympic high jump champion Charles Austin failed to make the Sydney Games final when he could only manage 2.20 metres in qualifying on Friday. The American, who took gold in Atlanta with a leap of 2.39 metres -- his best jump for five years -- failed once at 2.24 metres and then twice at 2.27 after realising that was the minimum needed to make Sunday's final. Thirteen men will take part in the final, all of them clearing 2.27. Among them was world record holder Javier Sotomayor of Cuba, who was allowed to compete in Sydney after the International Amateur Athletic Federation reduced his drug ban on humanitarian grounds.
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