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Lauren Jackson’s tall blonde figure never goes unnoticed. Whether on the field, where her size (1.96 m) and her “old-fashioned” game captivate, or in the corridors of the Novotel in Sydney’s Olympic Park, which she paces with large pockets of ice on knees following training. Her joints, abused during a rich career – four Olympic medals (3 silver, 1 bronze), twice WNBA champion and world champion (2006), among others – held firm for what is already the good story of the World Cup: following six years of retirement and two pregnancies, the interior, 41, is back in business.
