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Olympics: the afterthoughts
- Editorial comment: Yulimar, just watch Janja flying on the wall!
- How world records compare, based on the Hungarian Scoring Tables
- On the busy road to Birmingham. How the Commonwealth fared in Tokyo - Stan Greenberg
- 4th place at the Games. How close can you get? Disappointed? Delighted?
- The emergence of athletes of the Third Millennium - Mike Dagg-Jenden
- The side-show in the life of the Calcutta Ranger - India's first Olympic medallist (Norman Pritchard)
- Ernest Obiena's distant legacy . and Jasmine stirs memories of Amadeo Francis
- Two 1920s distance "stars" - Cotterell and Muggridge. Not Cottrell and Muggeridge - John Edwards
- Marathons galore! But not too many of the Olympic variety on the rain-swept roads of Britain 70 years ago
- The Marathon Part III - The Fantasy 40km. Progress through the years - Mike Dagg-Jenden
- Ron Hill's career in statistics - Neil Shuttleworth
- My favourite type of runner. What magnificent races, superb champions! - Colin Young
- 300 laps a day round the ship's deck. How the Durban orphan prepared to beat Newton's record (Hardy Ballington) - Andy Milroy
- The unappreciated double topping by Rojas to the triple helping of Devonish cream (Asnoldo Devonish)
- Hop scotched. Not even the statisticians recognised the triple jump in the USA in the 1950s (Walter Ashbaugh)
- Innovations of energy. Olympic silver and then 70 inventions to his name (Meredith Gourdine)
- Dispelling the image of "weather-beaten huskies". The intrepid women athletes of the 1920s and 1930s (John Brant's women internationals book)
- Sedykh and Wlodarczyk head the hammer and an Irishman leads the Commonwealth (All-time Hammer rankings) - Trevor Clowes
- A survey of national records in the long distances - Steve Akehurst
- Yuriy Sedykh and Anatoliy Bondarchuk
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- Editorial Comment: Convenience sustainability at the Olympics
- Jim Bausch, the forgotten man. Is he the world's greatest ever decathlete? - Keith Morbey
- James Audsley - a knowledgeable writer in at the birth of "AW", but who exactly was he? - Bob Phillips
- The "Bear Inn" at the village of Box in Wiltshire. Where the road-runners gather at three o'clock on a Saturday morning - James Audsley
- Wally Hayward's 12 marathons in 49 days
- Much to the liking of the crowd, Harry Hedges, a little known record-breaking miler of the 1930s
- Just a reminder. It may seem like it happened only yesterday. Actually, it was 50 years ago (Review of 1971) - Stan Greenberg
- The ultra-distance exploits of England's eccentric chief cheer-leader (Ken Baily) - Bob Phillips
- Alekna now leads Oerter. Rosemary Payne is still GB's No.1 after almost 50 years (All-Time discus rankings) - Trevor Clowes
- Striving for the nobler physical ideals. A discus-thrower from Trinidad shakes up British complacency (Roy Hollingsworth) - Bob Phillips
- Interviewed by Charles Elliott in 1963 (Roy Hollingsworth) - Charles Elliott
Tokyo 1964
- A competitor's testimony - Ron Hill
- A correspondent's perspective - Neil Allen
- An Editor's overview - Doug Gardner
- "The Sunrise Express" is a winner in Japan's missing Olympics of 1940
- The best ever British placings at the Olympic Games, event by event. It's the 800 metres runners who lead the golden way. - Stan Greenberg
- British-born gold medallists - mostly Irish - for other countries at the Olympics
- The earliest Championships meeting in Asia
- Lloyd Valberg, Singapore's first Olympian
- Over 30 years of active competition for the discus-thrower with the "mark of honour" (David Grigg) - I.E.G. Green
- "Chariots of Fire". Still blazing after 40 years - Bob Phillips
- Lord Coe, "the sound track of my youth" which became a lifetime passion - Bob Phillips
- Presto! Presto! Prestissimo! The concert violinist with a vibrant athletic string to her bow (Valerie Ball/Winn)
- A survey of national records in the middle distances - Steve Akehurst
- Book Review ("The Fastest Men On Earth")
- The locksmith who turned the key towards triple jump perfection (Józef Schmidt) - Richard Szreter, Stuart Mazdon
- Book Publication ("United Kingdom Female International Athletes 1921-1939")
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- Editorial Comment: Is anyone looking for the missing 26 thousand?
- Reluctantly veering into the "show business line of country". The squash rackets champion who set the pace in reporting women's athletics (Susan Noel) - Bob Phillips
- News of "The Athletics Museum" - Jane Ainsworth
- Robert Starkey. Some more notes - Ian Tempest
- "Sorry, Archie, you can't compete but have a few throws, anyway". and Archie, aged 18, breaks the world record (Archie Harris) - Bob Phillips
- Andrew Watson, the first noted black high jumper - Dr Chris Thorne
- The Big Shots: still Parry O'Brien, Geoff Capes & Judy Oakes set the standard (All-time shot put rankings) - Trevor Clowes
- Tom Kirkwood. A great British shot putter, but why did he miss the Olympics? - John W. Keddie & Peter Lovesey
- Pfizer's penicillin provider. The scientist who measured stride length to the very last half-inch (Jack Barnes) - Bob Phillips & John Edwards
- Ever in Lord Burghley's shadow, a talent soon grievously lost (Alec Palmer) - Bob Phillips & John Edwards
- Germany 246, Great Britain 244, Russia 207 (European Cup & Team Championships points scores) - Trevor Clowes
- Charles Bennett. The way in which his real identity was discovered at last after 120 years - Ian Morrison, Bill Mallon, Walt Murphy, Rob Gilmore, Taavi Kalju
- The marathon's "London Distance" mania, part II, 1908 to 1913, a statistical summary - Mike Dagg-Jenden
- Pish-Tush of the comic opera sets records to last a seriously long time (Lindsay Cullen and Malaysian athletics) - Bob Phillips
- The Major's epitaph. So near to and yet so far from an Olympic medal (J.J. Abbott) - John Edwards
- Louise Stokes, "The Malden Meteor", the first Afro-American woman to win an AAU title - Bob Phillips
- "Arthur Wint loped round and I realised I wasn't as good as I thought I was" (Frank Evans)
- Book Reviews (Peter Lovesey's "The Finisher", John W. Keddie's Scottish Olympians, Clive Williams's Cardiff's days of glory, Michael & Elizabeth Sheridan's "British Athletics 1955") - Bob Phillips & Ian Tempest
- A survey of national records in the sprints - Steve Akehurst
- An Irish javelin record revealed - Colm Murphy
- Foreign coaching on request in England and Scotland as the threat of war looms (Inez Sweeting)
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- Editorial Comment: Only one regret. Missing a meeting with Nurmi
- The fashion and beauty expert from Selfridge's who adorned the formative years of women's athletics (Violet Cambridge/Wall) - The Editor
- 800 metres and 880 yards: a chronology with a difference - Jacques Carmelli
- The Marathon's "London Distance". What was all the fuss about? Part I - Mike Dagg-Jenden
- A correction. The true identity of J. Hatton, the 1920 Olympian - Peter Lovesey
- ...And the "Shapwick Express" is shunted into the sidings (Charles Bennett) - Peter Lovesey
- Oxford sprinters, Kentish high jumpers. More early women's marks - John W. Brant
- No cartwheeling, by law! But the marine Corporal restores order in the circle (John Savidge) - The Editor
- In the years between the World Wars, the Australian athletes who competed for GB
- Battle of Britain hero, friend of Nevil Shute (Alan Bandidt) - The Editor
- Cross-country, marathon, parkrun...always Ranelagh to the fore - Steve Rowland
- Bringing home the Bacon (Fred Bacon's one hour record) - Keith Morbey
- Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards!!!! Top of every all-time list
- (Triple jump rankings) - Trevor Clowes
- Early Irish/GB internationals. More about Miller and the Barrett brothers - Colm Murphy
- Javelin throwers needed! Call the Army (R.K. Starkey and others) - John Edwards
- Llewellyn Atcherley, a sprint record-breaker of the 1890s on tour in Germany - The Editor, Manfred Holzhausen
- My days of National Service, occasionally diverted by Ibbotson and the Busby Babes - Keith Morbey
- Having a lovely time in Mauritius. Glad we were there - Stan Greenberg
- "My goodness! That girl jumped so high!" How a woman reporter spotted a future champion (Dora Lurie)
- Gerald Foster's excursion to England reassessed. Olympic trials or tribulations? - John Edwards
- Remembering Paul Nihill. Strong impressions, but there was some depression, too - Ian Brooks
- These boots are made for walking, says the man from South Shields (Tommy Payne) - Eddie Almond
- A survey of national records in the jumping events - Steve Akehurst
- Bill Nankeville (24 Mar 1925 - 8 January 2021) photos
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