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... event I covered - a fortnight or so later – was the European athletics championship at Berne , Switzerland , which also resulted in some memorable races . One was the 10,000 metres in which Zatopek ran with such imperial ability that he ...
... event I covered - a fortnight or so later – was the European athletics championship at Berne , Switzerland , which also resulted in some memorable races . One was the 10,000 metres in which Zatopek ran with such imperial ability that he ...
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... event were excluded on these grounds from going to Melbourne , I - for one - would immediately cease training . One of the major reasons for still competing would have disappeared . These reasons are as complex , and very akin to , the ...
... event were excluded on these grounds from going to Melbourne , I - for one - would immediately cease training . One of the major reasons for still competing would have disappeared . These reasons are as complex , and very akin to , the ...
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... event with a strangely assorted team . It was led by a fifty - four - year - old grand- father , Major Derek Allhusen , whom I had last seen in the pentathlon event which was part of the Winter Olympic Games at St Moritz twenty years ...
... event with a strangely assorted team . It was led by a fifty - four - year - old grand- father , Major Derek Allhusen , whom I had last seen in the pentathlon event which was part of the Winter Olympic Games at St Moritz twenty years ...
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Sometimes it was the Street of Misadventure until 1935 | 17 |
Mirror Mirror on the Ball 19357 | 31 |
The End of the Beginning 193840 | 52 |
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