Category: Athletics
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Navigating Politics in International Athletics 1960-84 by Fred Holder
Fred Holder was Honorary Secretary of the International Amateur Athletic Federation from 1960-1984. In 1998 he wrote a fascinating insider’s account of this turbulent period of athletics, never before made public.
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Palin and Holmes: looking back to greatness
So why should their attitudes to continued celebrity be so different?
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Concerning inconsistency in the London and Boston Marathon qualifying times
Welcome to the unforgiving world of athletics age grading.
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Running and Cheating: regarding Coe, Ovett and Savile
I’d like to believe that Coe and Ovett were clean: they were my heroes. And it’s not possible for them to prove the negative. But their statements do not dispel the doubt.
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