Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively.
You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don`t keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy.
When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor-a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set a...
The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it`s filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn`t happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.