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Alexandra Orlando is a 2008 Canadian Olympian and one of the best rhythmic gymnasts this country has ever produced.

Born and raised in Toronto, she was a five-time Senior National Champion, a Commonwealth Games six times gold medallist, world record holder and a three-time gold medalist at the Pan Am Games.

Since her retirement she has become an athlete advocate sitting on the board of Gymnastics Canada, Athletes CAN as Treasurer and an active member on the 2015 Toronto Pan Am Bid Committee.

Alexandra continues to be involved in her community as a motivational speaker, a gymnastics coach and judge and community outreach coordinator at her neighborhood high school.

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Yelena Soboleva is a Russian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 meters.

In February 2008 she established a new world indoor record of 3:58.05 seconds in a race in Moscow, and in March 2008 she beat her own world record in Valencia. She won a silver medal at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow.

During the Russian Indoor meeting in Moscow in January 2008, she set a new national record in the women’s Mile with a time of 4:20.21, which was the third fastest of all-time.[2] She also holds the national indoor record for 800 m, set in Moscow during the 2008 season.

Soboleva was selected to represent Russia in both the 800 m and 1500 m at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but was suspended from competition, after the discovery of doping test irregularities. She and four her teammates were charged in substitution of their urine tests after competitions last year. There were no charges in using of doping but they were suspended.

On 20 October 2008, it was announced that Soboleva, along with 6 other Russian athletes would receive two-year doping bans for manipulating drug samples.The ban would come into effect from April 2007, when the samples were given for testing