sporting endeavours from this summer’s Olympics into nature’s playground, with kayakers hurtling over waterfalls, mountain bikers descending the Himalayas and long-distance runners traversing the world - all in pursuit of the ultimate adrenaline rush

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-old, already a proven track talent who would become almost as good at cross country. Coe was an underdeveloped 15-year-old who would never be even a good cross-country runner. Ovett didn’t win the race – he finished second to Kirk Dumpleton, who has

Last summer Mo Farah became the first British man to win a world distance title, taking gold in the 5,000m, along with 10,000m silver. He tells RW why he's ready to top the podium in London.Did you expect to win two medals at the Daegu World Champs

We’re always trying to encourage our colleagues over on sister magazine Runner’s World to take up triathlon. So when senior designer Graham Taylor expressed a desire to tackle his first triathlon recently, we encouraged him to face his open water

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

in Runner’s World that the UK’s first triathlon was being held in Reading in June 1983, so I learnt to swim. The rest is history.How has triathlon changed in the last 30 years?Back in 1983 we didn’t have wetsuits and had to make do with steel bikes. We also

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