A Fear of Obscurity ; Despite All of Her Record-Breaking Feats, Paula Radcliffe Needs a Global Gold Medal to Secure Her Legacy in the Sport.
Evening Standard - London › August 12, 2005
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MIKE POWELL was talking in the bar the other night in Helsinki about the historic moment in Tokyo in 1991 when he broke the 22- year-old long jump world record of the legendary Bob Beamon.
The American's magnificent effort of 8.95 metres, which handed Carl Lewis his first defeat in a decade, still stands today and you would have thought Powell would look back on his athletics career with immense satisfaction.See the full content of this document
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A Fear of Obscurity ; Despite All of Her Record-Breaking Feats, Paula Radcliffe Needs a Global Gold Medal to Secure Her Legacy in the Sport.
But no. One thing clearly still bugs him. He said: "I never won Olympic gold."
For a bizarre quarter-of-an-hour, Powell needed to be reassured that he was still guaranteed a place in a...See the full content of this document
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