2012 Olympics
Jun 16 2009, Elliott

Georgina Geikie, one of the U.K.’s most promising sharpshooters, is learning the hard way what the long-term cost of the financial crisis can be.

Over the past seven years, Ms. Geikie, 24 years old, has put much of her life on hold and made...

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