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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 Gunnell became the golden girl at the Barcelona Olympics with her 400m hurdles win. A year later she became World Champion and smashed the world record. Her fierce competitiveness and sunny personality on screen have made her a household name
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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
’s finest athletes. In 2010, Greene became European and Commonwealth champ then, two weeks before Brussels, he became World champion in Daegu. And with a home Olympics round the corner, he’s in prime position to take the only prize now missing from his
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Team GB Profile: Denise Lewis
By on 22/06/2012 10:00:00
Discover why Denise thinks women will take the glory at London 2012 and her views on Jess Ennis claiming her British heptathlon record
Denise Lewis inspired national respect with her remarkable performance in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where she triumped to take heptathlon gold against the odds with a bandage wrapped around her injured leg.Since retiring in 2005, she has remained a
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Team GB Profile: Jeanette Kwakye
By on 06/06/2012 17:08:22
Find out how Jeanette Kwakye has fought back against injury - and her guilty pleasures, including TOWIE
final at the Beijing Olympics, where she pulled out all the stops to produce a lifetime best 11.14.Knee injuries, every runner’s nightmare, dogged Jeanette for the last couple of years. Now, the bubbly athlete is back to full fitness and to form
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RW Interviews: Mo Farah
By Kerry McCarthy on 03/07/2012 16:00:00
RW favourite Mo Farah reveals his gold ambitions
. I don’t have to make a decision on that until after the 10,000 though, so I have time.And what about after London...what does the future hold for you?By the time the next Olympics, in Rio, comes round, I’ll be 33 years old, and by then I think I
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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
Back in April, we were honoured to meet Richard Whitehead - the marathoner turned men's 100m and 200m T42 sprinter. He told us about his blades, training regime and the power of the Paralympic Games.Catch up with this inspriring interview
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Usain Bolt: The World's Fastest Man
By Kerry McCarthy on 11/07/2012 09:00:00
Does the fastest man on earth still have the fire and steel to forge gold this summer?
was not ‘Would he win?’, but ‘How fast could he go?’But, in Korea last summer, something strange happened. In the 100m World Championship final in Daegu, Bolt didn’t win. In the biggest race outside of the Olympics, he false-started for the first time in his
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Team GB Profile: Steve Cram
By on 22/05/2012 10:00:00
The Jarrow Arrow relives the glory days of men’s middle distance running to reveal his racing highs, lows and rivalry with Coe and Ovett
Olympics was the lowest point in my career. Preparations had gone perfectly until my last race in Rieti, Italy, where I pulled my calf muscle.That 1500m Olympic final was just awful. A guy called Peter Rono of Kenya won the race. We let him win - Rono
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TW Interviews: Mark Kleanthous
By Freya Carr on 09/07/2012 13:00:00
Soak up the training and racing secrets of a seasoned competitor with more than 420 triathlons under his belt
, 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
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