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Dai Greene: Gold Ambition
By Ruth Morgan on 03/08/2012 16:00:00
Meet Dai Greene, the Welsh wonder who's reigning World Champion in the 400m hurdles and discover his hunger for Olympic gold
Dai Greene is sitting outside the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels on a still September evening. Just a few minutes ago he was centre stage on the track. He finished second, but in doing so became overall winner of the 2011 Diamond League Series, world athletics’ top-tier season...
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Team GB Profile: Martyn Rooney
By on 17/04/2012 12:00:00
Get an insight into the mind of the 400m sprinter who has the Olympic stadium as his screensaver
Martyn Rooney is ready to avenge his racing demons. In last year’s World Championships in Daegu he crashed out in the 400m semi-finals - now he's using that memory to fuel his London 2012 training.With a strong finish at the Beijing Olympics under
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Team GB Profile: Richard Whitehead
By on 30/08/2012 10:00:00
Prepare to be inspired by the long distance runner turned sprinter
career conundrum. It appeared Richard’s London 2012 Paralympic medal dreams were over when the International Paralympic Committee ruled he couldn't compete in the marathon (not available for T42 leg amputees; he wasn't allowed to compete in T46 arm
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Olympic Spirit: Alive and kicking?
By Dominique Brady on 17/02/2012 15:45:26
-stopping, history-making moments we can produce in London this summer. Whenever we start to moan about the minor irritations that have dogged the London 2012 Games - ticket sales, traffic congestions and spiralling costs among them - perhaps we should stop and think
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Team GB Profile: Scott Overall
By Dominique Brady on 01/03/2012 12:29:20
Meet the marathon runner who dazzled the Olympic selectors with a 2:10 debut in Berlin.
place finish at the Berlin Marathon in 2:10:55.The former 5,000 and 10,000m track runner had met the Olympic A standard, secured his slot in London 2012 and burst onto the scene as a shining new British marathon talent.With less than six months until his
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Team GB Profile: Sally Brown
By on 07/05/2012 16:00:00
Introducing the teenager tipped for Paralympic Games glory after a glittering breakthrough last year
)Sally Brown is part of Team Samsung, a selection of top British athletes who will be opening up their lives and training regimes to the public through Samsung’s Digital Hub in the run up to the London 2012 Olympic Games. Samsung is giving the British public
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Team GB Profile: Sally Gunnell
By on 31/05/2012 10:00:00
Find out why positive thinking and constructive rivalry helped Sally Gunnell become an Olympic and World champion
.Sally revealed how it felt to win Olympic gold, the pressure at the top, how she banished self doubt and why she’s looking forward to watching the wildcard winners at London 2012. Athletics is the main sport of the Olympics. There’s nothing like seeing who wins
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Sprinting Masterclass with Richard Whitehead
By Dominique Brady on 23/03/2012 10:56:52
We took a masterclass with the world paralympic record holder over 200m to find out how to pick up the pace…
’s only one Richard Whitehead – and I’ll put money on him bringing home a shiny Team GB gold this summer.Richard Whitehead was in Sheffield to launch the new Powerade Olympic Games Sports Bottle, which will be used to hydrate athletes at the London 2012
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Usain Bolt: The Fastest Man on Earth
By Kerry McCarthy on 05/07/2011 11:00:00
Does sprint champion Usain Bolt revel in his status as a global icon or long for anonymity? RW talks to the man himself
At an early morning training session, the fastest man on the planet streaks down the home straight, muscles glistening in the Jamaican sun. He crosses the line 10m ahead of his training partners, growls with exhaustion and flops on to his back. As he lies there, eyes closed, face...
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Usain Bolt: The Fastest Man on Earth (Preview)
By Kerry McCarthy on 05/07/2011 11:00:00
Does sprint champion Usain Bolt revel in his status as a global icon or long for anonymity? RW talks to the man himself
At an early morning training session, the fastest man on the planet streaks down the home straight, muscles glistening in the Jamaican sun. He crosses the line 10m ahead of his training partners, growls with exhaustion and flops on to his back. As he lies there, eyes closed, face...
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