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Alastair Aitken writes - At the London Marathon Exhibition I asked six retired international athletes to name the most satisfying and memorable race of their careers,
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 Thank you to Alastair Aitken with these fantastic classic interviews of the greats....
Hugh Jones, who won the London Marathon in 1982 in 2:9:24 and went on to come second in the New York Marathon
"The AAA's at Rugby in 1981, that told me that................
Ray O'Donoghue tells his life story...
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Here is a most recommended read by Ray O'Donoghue, an author, photographer and long time 'hard as nails' athlete. Think you have had a hard day at work? Read this and re-assess!!..........
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Lady icarus...founder of the WAAA in England, holder of several Irish records until at least 1950
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Chapter 5 – Mrs Eliott-Lynn, Athlete
When Sophie had enjoyed that sports day at the University of Aberdeen, women’s athletics was still something of a novelty. The years from 1914 to 1918, which women spent driving jeeps, fixing engines, working in factories and cheerfully undertaking what had been seen as men’s work, accelerated social changes already evident before the war. Now, for the first time, women had cast off their corsets, girdles and long dresses to become involved in organised sport, and the short dresses worn by the French tennis player Suzanne Lenglen at Wimbledon from 1919 to 1926 were considered a defining moment in social as well as sporting history.
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