BERLIN, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - Olympic champion Caroline Kluft insisted in a magazine here on Thursday she is finished with the heptathlon as she prepares to concentrate on the long-jump and triple-jump in Beijing.

The 25-year-old announced in March she would not be competing in the seven-discipline event at the Beijing Olympic Games having won the gold medal in Athens.

STOCKHOLM, July 22, 2008 (AFP) - Swedish golden girl Carolina Kluft is determined to bag two gold medals at the Beijing Olympics after renouncing the defence of her heptathlon crown due to lack of motivation.

The Olympic heptathlon champion in Athens is planning to compete in the long jump and triple jump in China.

STOCKHOLM, July 7, 2008 (AFP) - Swedish golden girl Carolina Kluft is determined to bag two gold medals at the Beijing Olympics after renouncing the defence of her heptathlon crown due to lack of motivation.

The Olympic heptathlon champion in Athens is planning to compete in the long jump and triple jump in China.

LONDON, June 30, 2008 (AFP) - Olympic heptathlon champion Carolina Kluft of Sweden said on Monday British sprinter Dwain Chambers and other such drugs cheats should not be allowed to compete in Olympic Games.

STOCKHOLM, March 19, 2008 (AFP) - Swedish champion Carolina Kluft said in an interview published Wednesday she would not defend her heptathlon title at the Beijing Games this summer following injury problems.

STOCKHOLM, Feb 22, 2008 (AFP) - Sweden's Carolina Kluft, the current Olympic, world (three-time) and European (twice) heptathlon champion, has pulled out of next month's world indoor championships because of injury.

'Unfortunately, she will not be at the (March 7-9) world championships in Valencia, Spain,' Swedish athletics federation doctor Sverker Nilsson told AFP.

BIRMINGHAM, England, Feb 15, 2008 (AFP) - Carolina Kluft again hinted here Friday she might abandon her attempt to defend her Olympic heptathlon title in August in order to concentrate solely on a single event at the Beijing Games.

OSAKA, Japan, Aug 27, 2007 (AFP) - Rejoicing in an unprecedented third world heptathlon crown and a long-awaited new personal record, Carolina Kluft says she is not yet ready to abdicate as queen of athletes.

'To break my personal record and to win. It was my best motivation source,' the 24-year-old Swedish golden girl said after comfortably winning the grueling seven-sport spectacle at the World Athletics Championships here on Sunday.

'And right now I feel kind of empty,' she said. 'But right now I'm just happy and I'm not thinking about the future.'

OSAKA, Japan, Aug 22, 2007 (AFP) - Sweden's Olympic and world heptathlon gold medallist Carolina Kluft is hoping that the 2007 world championships will be the beginning of a perfect end to her reign.

She even hinted Osaka would be her last heptathlon, in which she has remained unbeaten since 2000, despite her earlier plan to quit the seven-sport spectacle after the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and compete in single events.

OSAKA, Japan, Aug 22, 2007 (AFP) - Sweden's Olympic and world heptathlon gold medallist Carolina Kluft will be hoping the 2007 world championships are the beginning of a perfect end to her reign.

But the competition has proven tough this season for Kluft, unbeaten since 2000 in the heptathlon, who plans to quit the seven-sport spectacle at major championships after the Beijing Olympics in 2008.