inviting me to run at Crystal Palace the following week. I broke an age-group world record at that race and went on to the Edmonton Commonwealth Games. In ten days my life changed completely. Who knows what would have happened if that teacher had done
the other’s best distance.Do you still get as much satisfaction racing now as when you first started?I have the same enthusiasm for the sport now as I did 30 years ago. I am like a child on Christmas day every time I compete.What’s the best piece of training
in the process would have been the crowning glory for the brickie’s son from Llanelli. But recent results have relegated it to the ‘cherry on the cake’. This final race of the year ends a 14-month golden period that has established him as one of the world
what could happen.I remember watching Linford Christie win the 100m in Barcelona the day before my event. It really spurred me on. I remember thinking, “I’m not going to let him have all the glory, I want a bit of that”.It took weeks, months
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
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
last year?I was confident I would do well. Leading up to it I did everything pretty much right. It was just one of those things that I had to get right on the day, and the 10,000m showed that you can be favourite and still not quite do it [Farah
