“Dead and buried” was pretty much the consensus on Sebastian Coe’s career following the 1980 Olympic 800m final. He’d been widely expected to win but although he’d taken silver, he’d run dismally. His chances of winning the 1500m later that week

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

’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

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

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

. 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

over the 200m, breaking three hours for the first time with the road marathon and finishing my first marathon in 2004, are just a few. Hopefully London 2012 will be the highlight of my career so far.The Olympic moment I remember most was Kelly Holmes

The Brownlee brothers stirred the nation when they won gold and bronze medals in the triathlon at the home Olympics this summer. If you fancy moving into multi-discipline but feel a little nervous about where to start, we asked our friendly Twitter

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

If you’re feeling a hole in your life after the summer of sport, the Thrillseekers Adventure Film Festival might just fill the Olympic-sized gap.Organisers of the film festival which kicked off this week promise to take the celebration of epic