-mile record and got within two seconds of the world record.Remember, no one is unbeatableIn those days, athletes from the Iron Curtain held the upper hand. The Russian number one, Bolotnikov, had broken the world 10,000m record. He was a real iron man tall
-twitch and slow-twitch, but there are also intermediate fibres which are affected by training. Sebastian Coe can move down to being a sub-47-second 400m runner or up to being a sub-50-minutes 10-miler. Rod Dixon moved up from being a world-class 1500m runner
