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Fountain starting to flow freely
Geelong :: Australia | 2 years ago
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Victorian middle distance runner Mark Fountain will continue his comeback from a severe achilles injury when he contests the Adelaide Airport Invitational at Mile End tonight. A placegetter in the 1500m at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games with a
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Interview: Frank Dick, Chair of Scottish Athletics
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | over 2 years ago
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From the Moscow Olympics of 1980 to the Barcelona Games a dozen years later and beyond, he was head coach to a national team which was a global power. Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett, Daley Thompson, Sally Gunnell and Colin Jackson all rose to fame under
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Athletics: Occasion throws up a 'what if'?
Oslo :: Norway | almost 3 years ago
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August 13 NZ time - Walker set the record for the mile in the Swedish port city of Gothenburg, smashing Tanzanian Filbert Bayi's mile record of 3m 51s and breaking, said Peter Snell, the last mythical barrier for milers. But what if he'd picked
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My friend Seb is leading the field again
Barcelona :: Spain | almost 3 years ago
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Amid the hype and hoopla of the two-year countdown to 2012 celebrations, another significant milestone in Seb Coe's career seems to have been overlooked. It was 30 years ago today that the man now orchestrating the biggest sports event in British
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Interview: Steve Cram, adding string to bow as he nears 50
Jarrow :: United Kingdom | almost 3 years ago
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British athletics has no more than a couple of world-class competitors altogether, an era in which we have three in one event alone may seem scarcely conceivable. But that was the situation in the 1980s, when at one stage the 1,500-metres world and
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Cram wants Britain to change the record in 2012
Budapest :: Hungary | almost 3 years ago
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Britain must capitalise on the 2012 London Olympics by reclaiming domination over middle distance running, Steve Cram said, 25 years to the day since he smashed the 1,500 metres world record. Britain must capitalise on the 2012 London Olympics by
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Ryan on the right track
Cardiff :: United Kingdom | 3 years ago
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Many historians in athletics still rate him the greatest 1500m runner ever, even 50 years after he won the Rome Olympic 1500m in what was then a world record 3min 35.6sec. But it has been half a century and no other Australian has since come close to
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Canadian gold standard lights way for London
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 years ago
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Lord Sebastian Coe, who knows all about Olympic pressure, is flying home from the Winter Games with an unequivocal message for every British athlete facing the challenge of London 2012. It can be summed up succinctly enough – and even borrowed from
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DJ Taylor: The art of running
Chertsey :: United Kingdom | 3 years ago
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The late Michael Dibdin's novel Dirty Tricks, published shortly after Mrs Thatcher's fall, contains a bravura account of an imaginary Prime Minister, self-evidently based on that lady, addressing her electorate. "You don't want a caring society,"
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BBC to make Coe and Ovett movie
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 3 years ago
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The pair dominated middle distance running in the late 1970s and first half of the 1980s, trading records and lighting up the Moscow Olympics. Ovett beat Coe to win gold at the 1980 Olympics in the latter's favoured 800m. Coe was to retain his 1,500m
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