by Robbie | May 27, 2018 | News
Great Britain’s team at the 1948 Olympics was a mixture of veterans and novices. Many of them had lost their best years – and some others who could have been at the Games had even lost their lives – during World War II. There were 14 among the men who were making...
by Robbie | Feb 21, 2018 | News
“Everything was right about him, as if he was running on air” When I went to interview one of the sons of Walter Rangeley some 16 years or so ago in the course of research for a biography which I was preparing of the 1936 Olympic 4 x 400 metres gold-medallist, Bill...
by Robbie | Feb 2, 2018 | News
With the splendid backdrop of Harewood House, Morpeth did the senior double, the first time ever, through Carl Avery and Mhairi MacLennan ,whilst Sale beat Leeds City for the men’s team race. However, Leeds narrowly reversed the result in the women’s race. The age...
by Robbie | Nov 3, 2017 | News
Why is there no biography of the most eminent British athlete among his contemporaries of the 1920s – Douglas Lowe ? And why is so little known about what were long believed to be his Mancunian origins ? Lowe, born on 7 August 1902, won the Olympic 800 metres in 1924...
