Super Saturday is consistently voted at the No. 1 sporting achievement by British Sports fans. It wasn’t the fact that British athletes won gold medals, it was the number and timing of them. During the evening of Saturday August 4, in London’s Olympic stadium in front of 80,000 spectators, plus a large proportion of the… Continue reading Super Saturday
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The Med Student
(The 4 Minute Mile) It was once thought that no human could run a mile in less than 4 minutes. A mile is 1.61 kilometers in distance. So that’s 4 laps full laps of a modern era athletics track, plus a further 9.34 metres. Accurate times for running the mile were not recorded until after 1850,… Continue reading The Med Student
The Runner
In the post entitled Origin, I mentioned a 1959 book called the ‘Encyclopedia of Sport‘* by Charles Harvey. One of the things I became fascinated by were the list of athletic records. As a budding athlete myself I would tick off the records as I equalled them hoping that one day my name would appear… Continue reading The Runner