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Jana Pittman of
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the Women 400 Metres Hurdles Finals during 2006 Melbourne
Commonwealth Games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in
Melbourne, Australia on March 23, 2006 (Photo by Daniel
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"That phone call
made everything better," said Lewis.
"I feel so happy
it's all over – I couldn't handle anymore bitterness."
The truce comes
after Lewis said last week she'd "had an absolute gutful" and
didn't want to have "anything to do with her (Pittman) ever
again".
That outburst was
inspired by Pittman's attempt to make up with England's 4x400m
relay team after it controversially lost the Commonwealth Games
gold medal on a protest by the Australian team featuring Pittman
and Lewis.
Pittman wrote to
English athletics officials and offered to hand over her gold
medal.
England athletics
team head coach Brad McStravick said that in her letter of
apology Pittman had "blamed it on Tamsyn going to the officials
and pointing out the fact that our girl was in the wrong place".
Now Lewis says they
have made up and agreed to move forward with their respective
careers.
"Jana told me
she'd finally had time after the wedding to sit down and read
news reports on the internet," said Lewis.
"She was shocked
to see that she was supposed to have blamed me in her letter.
She said it wasn't true and she was sorry I was upset.
"It was nice of
her to ring me, especially on her honeymoon, and now a really
rough time looks like being in the past for both of us."
The ceasefire
follows a previous truce announced by Lewis in New Idea
last month in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games when
comments in the media had fired both parties up.
