Few runners can be called legends - but Steve Cram is surely one of them. The ‘Jarrow Arrow’ was pitted against Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe in a decade of edge-of-the-seat athletics throughout the 1980s.Over an illustrious career studded

national favourite as an athletics pundit for the BBC. Denise reveals what she really feels about Jessica Ennis claiming her British heptathlon record, why she still gets starstruck around Sebastian Coe and why she’s thrown out the scales for good.My most

The Olympians who inspired me were Daley Thompson in Moscow, Seb Coe and Steve Ovett and  Shirley Strong in 1984 winning the silver medal in the hurdles. I was also a real Edwin Moses fan.This summer I’m looking forward to watching Jess Ennis compete. It’s going

, then I put my new skills into practice by coaching others. I want to be the best I can be, no matter what age I am.Who inspired you as a young triathlete?Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, and their rivalry at the Moscow Olympics in 1980 when each won

. It was the days of Cram, Ovet and Coe. These days, especially thanks to the Olympic effect, we watch the elite but then think about the practical application of the sport in our lives, which is great.I took up running at university and got really