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Volume 60, No. 4, October 2022
	Editorial Comment: Athletes of the Year - or just 37 days? India, Peru, Philippines - welcome to the elite medal-winning club of 105! - Brian Hatch How the nations scored this summer. Top six placings, Eugene, Birmingham, Munich - Trevor Clowes The Birmingham Commonwealth Games: "Something of a curiosity ... but hugely entertaining". My spectator experience - Ian Tempest Munich to Munich: how the nations of Europe compare 20 years apart - Bob Phillips A Gega counter from the land of Shqipen (2022 Talking Points) "Skin painted directly over his bones". When a mill-worker won at Boston (Guatemala) The LaBeach boys, "darling" sprinters of the Canal Zone and the Caribbean (Panama) Two golds each for Australia, China, Jamaica, Kenya . and Kimberly (Peru) David A. Jamieson: athletics historian who had a foot in both camps - John W. Keddie George McCrae: in the distant shadows but cutting a deep notch in the sport's history - David A. Jamieson The Reverend Canon H.D. Rawnsley: "What a pretty sight this graceful pole-leaping is!" - Neil Shuttleworth Broadside on! Cinders flying high! When Stamford Bridge succumbed to speedway - John Edwards 55 years of running up and down the "Pike" (Ron Hill) - Neil Shuttleworth A mature Varsity winner: Harold Minshall A mystery White City sprint photo from the 1950s (Orien Young) The amazing quickness of Eddie Conwell Turkish delight: a first Olympic medal in athletics - Bob Phillips Love and death in Armenia. The first "Turkish" athletes at the Olympic Games Lost British international athletes from 1950. Andrew Ferguson - a surprising discovery - Bob Phillips Beside the seaside. Revised results for the England-v-France match of 97 years ago The social divide between British milers. A Sandhurst officer; A Mansfield miner (Robert Macalpine-Downie, Cyril Ellis) Pioneering American women distance-runners. Part I: To the 1928 Olympic 800 metres and beyond - Mike Dagg-Jenden Marise Chamberlain: My Olympic race for gold against this British girl, Packer Selection controversies of 70 years ago. Policy changes before the Olympics (Philip Morgan) W.P. Phillips, a champion who defied his death notice - if only briefly - Martin Garrod Commonwealth Games photographs - Ian Tempest
Volume 60, No. 3, August 2022
	Editorial comment - Medal haul prioritised over mental health Who really invented the crouch start? - Peter Lovesey Louis Junker, "the smartest sprinter we ever had" said the "old timers" of the 1890s - The Editor The first East African half-miler of note, a fierce opponent of Idi Amin (Yusuf Lule) "Smittled" with this new fangled athletics. When Lakeland champions were feared - Neil Shuttleworth 50 years ago. The two days when Mary Peters won the pentathlon gold - Stan Greenberg 1972. The year of a Games overcast by the shadows of the gunmen - Stan Greenberg A French record-holder, observant of "alien heirs and landless owners" (J.P. Bulkeley) - The Editor Early competitions in Europe - Peter Lovesey Britain's most successful events at the Olympics - Mike Dagg-Jenden When Irish guys are miling. One country's hidden sub-four contribution - The Editor Tommy Conneff, Ireland's fist fleet-footed son A discus-thrower's story of obsession with track and field, training as the race-horses gallop by - John Sheldrick The reality behind the vanity. A British international discus-thrower's seasons in 1961 and 1962 (John Sheldrick) Peter Hincks - the continuing story - John Edwards Late Discoveries I: One meeting. One AAA title. No opposition for the pole-vaulting cricketer (Bertie Harragin) - The Editor, Bernard Linley Late Discoveries II: The "Cinderella" Corporal. An elusive British record-holder for the javelin (Charles Waghorn) - John Edwards Late Discoveries III: Bermuda shortcomings. A phantom shot-putter's proper place - in the pool (Dudley Spurling) Late Discoveries IV: Leg-break bowler, International cross-country runner, Olympic team assistant (Philip Morgan) John Hatton's races in Australia - Oscar Vecchi Do you want to take part in the Olympics? Join our travel group and be in the team (the 1906 Athens "intercalated" Games) - The Editor A survey of the longest lived national records - Steve Akehurst, Stuart Mazdon Book reviews (Biography of Don Finlay, Biography of Mike McNamara and Herb Hedeman, The centenary history of Croydon Harriers) - Stuart Mazdon, Andy Milroy, Ian Tempest An Editorial postscript to the 2022 World Championships
Volume 60, No. 2, May 2022
	Editorial comment: Loosening the chains, throwing caution to the winds Early quests for the "Grand Inquisitor". The making of A.G.K. Brown - Bob Phillips "Bonzo" Howland and Peter Hincks, booster shots in the arm from Cambridge Faster than Usain Bolt - 200 years ago (Jem Wantling) - Peter Lovesey Revised ideas about the AAA 220 of 1920 - John Edwards More so than HMA. The rivalry between Harry Edward and Eric Liddell - John W. Keddie Who else but Daley? But there's a place, too, for Jess and for Sabine Braun (All-time world rankings, Decathlon & Heptathlon) - Trevor Clowes Only a month or so in England, but that was enough to go to the Olympics! (Bernard Lucas) - Bob Phillips Since when (after 1921) is the marathon 42195 metres (26 miles 385 yards)? - Rooney Magnusson Fibre glass. "Like swinging on a wet noodle" - but fortunately only for a moment (Aubrey Dooley, Ray Kring) The first black vaulter of international note (Dick Coleman) Along Olympic Road. The neglected title win by a "Rembrandt of the Ice" (Sylvester Apps) - Don M. Groome A versatile Varsity Starr (Ralph Starr) - John Edwards The true identity of two Canadian milers of the 1920s (Jack Walters and Harold St Clair Davidson) - John Edwards Who were these distance runners, exotically named W. Abdurehman and P.D. Chongu? - Bob Phillips The J. Hatton mystery, Part 3. A case of identity theft revealed - Peter Lovesey Where the streams ran blood-red to the sea (Lakeland "pole leaping") - Neil Shuttleworth A Dickensian literary turn of phrase, "The most graceful of all the treats" A first artist's impression of "pole leaping", circa 1470! Fair views of Lakeland Sports, among the best these lands can offer. The life of a pioneering woman photographer (Mary C. Fair) - Bob Phillips, Neil Shuttleworth, David Bradbury, Hamish S. Thomson As the agile young dales-men swing into the crag face at a tremendous pace - Mary C. Fair A survey of national records in the combined events and in the 4 x 100 and 4 x 400 relays - Steve Akehurst Champions of Europe? Or merely Princes of the cinder track? (British athletes in Germany in the 1890s) - Bob Phillips The first AAA champion from Continental Europe (Jakab Kauser) Athletics 2022 - The ATFS Annual - is published
Volume 60, No. 1, February 2022
	Editorial comment: The spry social distancing of Mr and Mrs Heyes A Scottish winner in honour of the founder of the first Empire Games city - The Editor and Alex Wilson The missing milers at the Hamilton Empire Game identified after more than 90 years Athletics in the Commonwealth Games city Part I. H.M. Oliver, the flawed inspiration for a brief blaze of Birmingham glory Part II. When Birchfield's "dicey do" at Perry Barr turned into a golden history in the - making Part III. Fanny by Floodlight. Lapping under the lamps. Early days of Birchfield's late-night ventures Part IV. Peter Radford: Our BIG meeting of the year . then maybe a relaxed bus ride home Willie Applegarth: a brief biography of an Olympic champion Belated recognition for Ethel Scott All the red-coloured countries. Where memories of the Commonwealth Games began - Stan Greenberg Backley and Sanderson the best of British. Zelezny and Fuchs the best of all. (All-time javelin rankings) - Trevor Clowes Stan Tomlin, an "experimental" Empire Games title and then a lifetime of writing - John Edwards "Finish this race and you are still a Ballington" (Hardy Ballington, Part II) - Andy Milroy An anomaly in the decathlon scoring tables - Brian Hatch Fanciful Olympic Games marathon winners The tragic final days of Olympic competitors Norman Pritchard and Bernarr Prendergast - Peter Lovesey, John Edwards A mystery in Mexico. Why was Manchester's Victor Manning ousted from the Olympic Games? (Wieslaw Maniak) A memory of the 1960 Olympics. Why John Thomas lost in Rome - Mel Watman The Commonwealth Games, Perth, Western Australia, 1962. Fond memories for two of England's athletes - Mike Fleet, John Sheldrick A survey of national records in the hurdles and steeplechase - Steve Akehurst New light thrown on African athletics of the 1940s - Steve Rowland The search continues for the "Polish Champion Heavyweight Athlete of Olympian Fame" (Jerzy Kordas) - The Editor "British Athletics 2022" - The NUTS Annual