Tag: women’s athletics

• Why women’s athletics is running into the sand

  7–11 minutes

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  August 27, 2015

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  Randomness

    I’ve always followed athletics closely, probably because it’s the only sport for which I’ve ever willingly trained, reaching the dizzy heights of second place in the under 15 400 metres at the 1974 St Albans and District School Sports. But, like many others, I’ve become increasingly cynical about the capacity of the sport to…