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Asha Philip: Resurgent and Racing Towards London Olympics

22 March 2012
“I’m sorry,” says Asha Philip, just as our two minute-old conversation turns to her burgeoning, potentially brilliant athletics career. “Every time I start talking about where I am, I just can’t stop smiling. My dream is coming true.”   The apology is entirely unnecessary. Even before P...
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Thomas Eager to Gain Recognition On and Off the Track

5 March 2012
For the last few years Joe Thomas has certainly been noticed in athletics, but not necessarily for his running. With his unique hairstyle and colouring, nose ring and tattoos the Welsh 800 metre runner has stood out from the rest on appearance alone.But this year everything has changed. Four indoor ...
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Julz Worth Investing In: Ambitious Adeniran Sets Sights on Olympics

5 March 2012
Emblazoned unmistakeably across the home page of Julz Adeniran’s personal website is a catchy 50 Cent lyric: “Patiently waiting for a track to explode on.” Neat athletics pun aside, such a maxim has proved perfectly apt to drive this resolute youngster to the cusp of Olympic recognition in...
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Jackson Remains The Standard Bearer As Britain Looks For New Hopes

10 February 2012
For the best part of fifteen years, Colin Jackson dominated the world of 110 metre hurdling, cleaning up on the domestic and international circuit and showing the type of pedigree Great Britain now struggles to replicate.   It has been nearly a decade since these shores have seen such a period of d...
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Andy Turner: Back on Track to Make More Golden Memories

8 February 2012
Andy Turner exudes a calm self-assurance that inhabits the healthy middle ground between quiet confidence and complacency. For a man who has ridden a magnificent two-year stretch of form to become reigning Commonwealth and European gold medallist over 110m hurdles, this is perhaps unsurprising. Howe...
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Martyn Rooney Primed for Second Spell in Olympic Limelight

14 December 2011
“We definitely don’t mess around,” smiles Martyn Rooney, happily aware of the grueling necessities of readying his body to compete at the very summit of world athletics. “There are no gimmicks, we just go out there and work as hard as we can.   “That challenge is enjoyable for me though b...
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Chris Tomlinson - Remaining Injury-Free Can Make Me "Unstoppable" at London 2012

19 October 2011
Chris Tomlinson, Britain’s leading long-jumper, has warned his rivals that he will be at his very best at next summer’s Olympic Games after suffering injury heartache at the final of the World Championships in September.   Tomlinson was in impressive form heading into the event at Daegu. He had...
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Fearless Bleasdale Leaps Into Contention Ahead of London 2012 Olympics

10 October 2011
As Holly Bleasdale gazed up at the bar – a full 4.70m above the crash mat she now rested on – the enormity of her achievement at the Banhaus Gala in Mannheim had not yet settled in. Preston’s 19-year-old upstart had cleared a height that demolished the previous British senior record and establ...
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Rejuvenated Clitheroe Defies Funding Withdrawal as London Olympics Loom

23 September 2011
As two-time Olympian and European Indoor 3000m champion Helen Clitheroe recounts the most successful season of her career, she unknowingly presents a strong case to UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee that her Lottery funding should be reinstated.  Following a disappointing World Champions...
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Danvers Must Hurdle Injury Before Competing At London

8 September 2011
While the recent World Athletics Championships in Daegu offered its audience the chance to feast on the planet’s finest competitors, for Tasha Danvers the viewing was not so easy.   “Yeah it’s a bit of a headache. In athletics the whole idea is to be an athlete, so if you’re not competing i...
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