FILE - In this March 8, 2014 file photo, Australia's Sally Pearson clears a hurdle in her 60m hurdles semi-final during the Athletics World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland. Just days after floods devastated wide areas of Australia’s so-called Sunshine State, the Gold Coast is marking the one-year countdown to the Commonwealth Games. Olympic hurdles gold medalist Sally Pearson is a Gold Coast local and will be the main ambassador of the April 4-15 games, which run through the local school-holiday period to ensure as many of the 1.2 million tickets are sold as possible. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)
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