With the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games one year today, we kick off runnersworld.co.uk's London 2012 coverage with an awed look back at some of the most iconic running moments in Games history.Dreams of Olympic gold have inspired
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of a modest genius whose every contorted breath helped push him to places others dared not go.At the moment of his greatest triumph, though, he was as relaxed as the world had ever seen him. For the last five miles of the Olympic marathon in Helsinki
A s a 16-stone, heavy-drinking, asthmatic, smoking slob, I decided to throw myself into a gruelling training regime. The goal was to make the cut for the marathon at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing - and make a documentary of my journey. Why
RW's former production assistant Cath Perry is a self-confessed athletics nut. She'll be offering up an unofficial crowd's eye view on the forum though the week. Here's her first instalment - Monday 23rd, the day after the women's marathon... "She's pulled up" "No. You are joking...
UK's Jon Brown (78), well inside the 2004 Olympic qualifying standard of 2:15, with 2:13:39The 2004 Flora London marathon lived up to its reputation as the world's greatest road race on a cool and wet April morning. The world's greatest runners
, really enjoying the occasion. This made me realise that sometimes running does not always need to be about PBs. In what other sport can you compete in the same race as Olympic and World Champions?I pressed on and approached Tower Bridge - the noise
of the Proms. When you think how much bigger the Olympic Stadium will be, it would be an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to compete there.Throughout your career you've suffered a variety of injuries. How have you picked yourself up each time?Once you get