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... metres , and he won the most famous one to finish there , the marathon ; in between he had run a heat and won the final of the 5,000 metres . Thus in eight days he ran 38 miles , 1137 yards , 2 feet , 7 inches to secure three individual ...
... metres , and he won the most famous one to finish there , the marathon ; in between he had run a heat and won the final of the 5,000 metres . Thus in eight days he ran 38 miles , 1137 yards , 2 feet , 7 inches to secure three individual ...
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... metres against the Russians in Moscow and was the European 1,500 metres title - holder , couldn't even qualify in Rome in the 800 . It was one of the blackest days of all time for British athletics . Often when we were beaten we had ...
... metres against the Russians in Moscow and was the European 1,500 metres title - holder , couldn't even qualify in Rome in the 800 . It was one of the blackest days of all time for British athletics . Often when we were beaten we had ...
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... metres seriously - at least as a winner , that is . She had run only four 800 metres , or half - miles , before coming to Tokyo . And at the halfway stage it didn't look good : a blue - clad French girl Maryvonne Dupureur was leading ...
... metres seriously - at least as a winner , that is . She had run only four 800 metres , or half - miles , before coming to Tokyo . And at the halfway stage it didn't look good : a blue - clad French girl Maryvonne Dupureur was leading ...
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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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