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Steve Cram
Usain Bolt: Sit back and enjoy the phenomenon
As Beijing empties, those of us left behind have time to dwell on some of the great moments in sporting history that we have witnessed.
Drug storm gathers over athletics
Last weekend, in anticipation of an unfavourable result against my beloved red and whites at St James’s Park, I took the tried-and-tested ostrich method of arranging to be out of…
Politicising sport doesn’t work
COUNTERPOINT: When the Olympic Games were held in Moscow in 1980, the British team did not take part in the opening ceremony. As a first-time Olympian I was mildly disappointed,…
Cheating is a team sport
The women’s 100m in Sydney was the first Olympic final I commentated on for the BBC. Marion Jones streaked to a victory so emphatic that the words that came out were an athlete’s…
Asafa Powell: Crippled by doubt
Ten seconds should not be long enough to change the course of a lifetime, but for 100m athletes that is all it takes. Tyson Gay is now a world champion — a man of stature assured…