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Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Can You Hear Us?

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Will athletics still be the major Olympic sport by 2020? It’s a good question but unless, as one time member of the European Athletics Asso...
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Sunday, 27 September 2009

Concrete Ceilings

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It is ironic that in a recent interview Gerry Sutcliffe, the British sports minister, castigated the Football Association for not honouring ...
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Friday, 11 September 2009

That's All Folks!

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As with Bugs Bunny so it is with the ever shortening athletics season. For the general public Athletics 2009 has been about nine, pulsating...
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Thursday, 3 September 2009

Pawns of Power

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Twice in twenty-one years two young South African women athletes have been caught up in the power politics of world sport. In 1988, Zola Bu...
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Monday, 24 August 2009

Berlin Reflections - 3

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By providing excitement, earth shattering performances and drama the vibrant world championships in Berlin have been an enormous success. I...
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Friday, 21 August 2009

Berlin Reflections - 2

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The way that the IAAF has brought its querying of the gender of the women’s new World 800 metre champion, 18 year old Caster Semenya, into t...
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Monday, 17 August 2009

Berlin Reflections - 1

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Thanks to modern technology (which I don’t pretend to understand) I was able to watch Jennifer Ennis’s regal progress on the first day of he...
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tonyward
Former PRO and media spokesman for British Athletics (1986-96). Level 4 coach. Author of: Modern Distance Running (1964); Linford Christie (1989; Athletics: The Golden Decade (1991), shoretlisted for Sportsbook of the Year 1991 plus contributions to newspapers various athletics magazines. Founder of the British Athletics League; international TV and stadium commentator
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