運動競技のs: Cook leaves silver woes behind and strikes gold

At last Stephanie Cook has won again. Seven months and four 競争s since her Olympic 勝利 in Sydney, she broke her run of silvers with a gold in yesterday's modern ５種競技 World Cup at Bath.

But she was にもかかわらず 否定するd ultimate satisfaction. Georgina Harland, last year's Olympic reserve who has beaten Cook in their three contests this year, 保持するs her newly-acquired world No.1 最高位の by the slimmest 利ざや and Cook has yet to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 her.

Harland qualified on Friday with five other Britons for yesterday's final 競争 between the world's 最高の，を越す 32 but was ordered to 身を引く by 国家の 業績／成果 director Jan Bartu because of the 損失 competing with a 激しい 冷淡な might have done. 'It took a good hour to 説得する her,' said Bartu.

Harland, who leads the world after victories in the year's first two World Cups, was hardly 行方不明になるd by Britain's team as Sian 吊りくさび took the silver and Olympic bronze medallist Kate Allenby, competing 国祭的な for the first time since shoulder 外科, finished fourth.

Harland's absence hardly 減らすd Cook's 業績／成就. Seven of the first 10 in last year's Olympics were competing and Cook would have been hard to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 even by a healthy Harland. She 越えるd her Olympic 得点する／非難する／２０ for 狙撃 and almost for her 盗品故買者ing, and swam a personal 記録，記録的な／記録する in the 200metres 自由型, four seconds faster than in Sydney.

That left her in 13th place but Bartu had seen enough already. 'She's 支援する,' he said. 'It's part of every 競技者's personal 開発 to come to 条件 with winning an Olympic gold but she's 扱うd it.'

Cook's 命令（する）ing riding, after a 需要・要求するing 開始する 辞退するd at an 早期に 盗品故買者 and 脅すd momentarily to unseat her, raised her to eighth before the final run, the same position she had 占領するd in Sydney. There she had to 回復する 48 seconds on the 3,000m run. Here it was 32sec.

For Cook, her sport's finest 走者 , that is a 微風, and a はしけ one than the 冷気／寒がらせるing evening 勝利，勝つd that brought the day's earlier warmth 負かす／撃墜する 15 degrees.

Within the first 50m she was past two 走者s, and that 32sec had disappeared 完全に after 1,000m as she swept past Allenby, the ロシアの 十代の少年少女 Olesja Velichko and finally the leader, フラン's 統治するing World Cup 支持する／優勝者 Caroline Delemier.

吊りくさび, a Bath-based Scot, was almost as swift, knocking off Delemier's 41sec lead over her and finishing only 18sec behind Cook.

For a while Allenby raised hopes of a British sweep of the メダルs even without Harland but the loss of so much training during her convalescence told 結局 as Delemier 埋め立てるd third place in the last 500m.

Cook's 復古／返還 to the 最高の，を越す of the podium in the last World Cup before Britain hosts the world 選手権s at Millfield School in Somerset in July could not be better timed.

She may decide now to leave next month's European 選手権s to Harland and 焦点（を合わせる） on taking the world 肩書を与える as a grand finale to her career.