Leryn Franco

ASUNCION, Paraguay - Paraguayan exporters say that production of soy is likely to fall 47 per cent in the current harvest. The nation's chamber of cereal exporters says the 2011-2012 harvest is likely to be rough half of the 8.3 million tons produced in the previous season. Technical adviser luis Cu  

Leryn Franco's sort of like the Anna Kournikova of javelin throwing. She was runner up at the Miss Universo Paraguay 2006 and participated in Miss Bikini Universe. AskMen placed her on their Top 99 list in '09, Bleacher ...  

Headline Title:  Paraguay: Land dispute victory for displaced indigenous community 03 February 2012 A land deal finalized this week between Paraguayan authorities and a land owner in the country’s central region will allow a long-displaced indigenous community to rebuild in safety and dignity, Amnesty International said today...  

Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has made a full recovery from cancer, doctors treating him in Brazil say. Follow-up tests confirmed that his lymphatic cancer was in "complete remission", the Syrian-Lebanese hospital in Sao Paulo said. Mr Lugo ...  

NORMAL – For Illinois State junior javelin thrower Tim Glover, winning last year’s NCAA Division I national championship was just the beginning. Coming into ISU, Glover was hoping to make the 2016 Olympics. That timeline has been accelerated.  

Former Olympic medallist Steve Backley offers Olympic hopeful Martin Brockman tips on how to master his weak javelin event in the decathlon as he prepares for London 2012. BBC Olympics Dreams is broadcast on Sunday, 22 January at 17:00 GMT on BBC One South ...  

Olympics: Three places are up for grabs in GB's London 2012 ... Ward praised Notts County Council's Shining Stars fund which has paid her £2,012 and will help fund trips and travel expenses as her training regime builds in 2012. As part of her winter ...  

The DartmouthSpecial Olympics Winter Games Jan. 29-31Bar Harbor TimesBy Staff | Jan 23, 2012 Carrabassett Valley — In 1969, Special Olympics Maine held the world's first winter games. It began on a small hill in Gorham, with only a handful of people. This year, Special Olympics Maine will send more than 400 athletes to ...Hundreds volunteer at local Special OlympicsThe Dartmouthall 4 news articles »  

The Sport ReviewTom Degun: Innsbruck 2012 enhances the success story of the Youth OlympicsInsidethegames.biz (blog)Expectations for the event were high following the monumental success of the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore in 2010 and despite the summer edition of the event looking increasingly like it will become a sought after competition, ...Winter Youth Olympics: Great Britain leave Innsbruck on a highThe Sport ReviewYouth...  

Telegraph.co.ukLondon 2012 Olympics: GB basketball star Eric Boateng sweating on fitness for ...Telegraph.co.ukPowerful Great Britain forward Eric Boateng faces a race against time to recover from a thrombosis in his leg and take his place in the squad for the Olympics, while a flurry of other injuries have reminded his colleagues of the knife-edge they are ...  

heatworldSpice Girls look to reunite for 2012 OlympicsNew York Daily NewsBy Joyce Chen / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The Spice Girls perform during the first concert of the UK leg of their world tour in London, in 2007; they're looking to return this year for the Olympics. They'll tell you what they want, what they really, ...London Olympics Lines Up Madonna, McCartney, Spice Girls?LimeLife (blog)Spice Girls, Madonna, McCartney, Stones for Olympics...  

Cranford Chronicle - NJ.comPlungers gear up for annual Special Olympics' fundraiserMorning Star“The Polar Plunge is an extremely fun and energizing way to raise money for Michigan's Special Olympics,” explains Clifford, who lives in Kalkaska and works at the Grand Traverse County Jail following 22 years of serving his country as a military ...Hundreds expected to 'plunge' into the Delaware River for Special OlympicsThe TrentonianPolar Plunge...  

Expect medals in next Olympics: TT coachIndian ExpressIndian table tennis team's Polish coach Kucharski Leszek feels that Indian players have a decent chance of getting selected and playing well at the 2012 Olympics but feels that medals could perhaps be expected in the next edition of the mega event.  

Olympics May Feed Growth for McDonald's: AnalystCNBC.com (blog)"The Olympics are in London, a massive, massive market for them, and I don't really necessarily see a reason why (same-store sales) should slow in the summer," Siegner said. "Actually, (Europe's) been unbelievably resilient against what you've seen ...McLympics? An Opportunty for McDonald's This YearWall St. Cheat Sheetall 2 news articles »  

Sir Clive Woodward: At the Olympics the home team tends to deliverThe GuardianHe partly answers the question by talking to me at the Winter Youth Olympics, where he has just led a team of 24 British athletes as the head honcho, the chef de mission, in Innsbruck. However, while warmly assessing the Russian and the Ukrainian ...and more »