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From Last to First: A long-distance runner's journey from failure to success

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He has definitely been (and may still be) in the pay of archenemy Gates and is a rather too keen proponent of unnecessary vaccines. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; etal. "Charlie Spedding". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Spedding followed this by winning the London Marathon in 1984 and the bronze medal for Great Britain in the marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States, finishing just 2 seconds behind silver medallist John Treacy. [2] Although it was the first British Olympic marathon medal for 20 years, and the last won by Britain (male or female), the performance was one of 16 British medals in athletics that year, and it possibly did not get the recognition it deserved. discovered that he’s now due the bronze medal from the 20km walk at 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, thanks to the retrospective banning of the Russian gold medallist, In those grey days between amateurism and professionalism athletes were allowed to run for cash - but they couldn't spend it.

The more testing that is done, the more “cases” will be found, i.e. people who have markers showing that they were exposed to the virus (and probably developed immunity). Which is also why Magee’s commentary – recalling Ireland’s 12 previous Olympic medal winners in the time it took Treacy to run the final 100 metres – was so magnificent: he did realise, about a mile from the finish, that Treacy was going to medal, unless he collapsed, and yet his astonishing display of sporting memory took Treacy’s achievement straight into the sporting pantheon where it belonged. Looking at the comments so far, I think people need to re-read your article. This isn’t about diet – although I fully agree that the guidelines are reprehensible and cause an inexcusable amount of illness. But that’s a red herring here. Charlie Spedding is a mild mannered grandfather who immediately strikes the reader as a grown-up who should be heeded, one with no vestedinterestbeyond aphilanthropic desire to seek after truth. (Though as reviewer I should perhaps declare my own interest as a farmer). He is a retired chemist who has spent a lifetime atthe coalface of the health service dispensing advice and drugs to patients in a community pharmacy. And in his youth he was a top athlete. In the golden era of long distance runners from the NorthEast, Durham based Spedding was up there with Brendan Foster and Steve Cram. In 1984 he won the London Marathon and an OlympicBronze Medal. The deduction isthat he might just know a tad more about nutrition than the host of writers with PhDs in the subject, particularly as – crucially – he is immune to the groupthink spawned by the peer review system and the funding of research. He says his motivation to take early retirement and write the book was triggered by a recognition that he had been a pawn of Big Pharma, selling drugs to patients who weren’t going to get better because they were being advised to eat the wrong things. Though I ran for Gateshead throughout most of my career I really coached myself. I think I'm easy-going by nature but on some things I dig in my toes and say no.The London Marathon was founded by Olympic champion and journalist Chris Brasher, and athlete John Disley, with the first event taking place on March 29, 1981. After running the New York Marathon in 1979, Brasher finished an article in The Observer asking ‘whether London could stage such a festival? We have the course, a magnificent course…but do we have the heart and hospitality to welcome the world?’ The first London Marathon took place two years later, with 20,000 runners applying to run; 7,747 were accepted and 6,255 crossed the finish line. Since then, the London Marathon has become the most popular running event in the world, with nearly half a million runners applying to run the 2020 race. This was my first Olympics. I was 32 years old. Beforehand, the one thing I said that I must not do is finish the race thinking: “I wish I’d done this.” Later on, when we got to about 21-22 miles, I’d expected De Castella or somebody to push really hard. I was mentally ready for it but I looked around the group and no one else was going to push. Number of deaths ascribed to C-19 continue to decline to trivial levels compared to normal daily deaths, but the word has gone out to the media to keep that positive information as quiet as possible.

This is a very typical example and the MSM are always happy to augment it and add to the fearmongering. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/boris-johnson-says-he-wants-to-relax-2-metre-physical-distancing-ruleHowever, when it was all over we had the best medal presentation of all because it marked the beginning of the closing ceremony. Little did I know that my first experience of the London Marathon would be timed so perfectly, at least from the perspective of a young British sports fan. In the intervening years there has been very little to cheer in the men's race, Britain's last win coming in 1993 through Eamonn Martin, but maybe Mo Farah is the hope on the horizon that marathon running in this country needs. Again Jones was satisfied enough that he had beaten such a strong field and defended his title: "The one second has never bothered me; everybody else made more of a fuss than I did," he revealed in Struthers' article, but from that day on he was wise enough to make sure he always wore a stopwatch. London 2012 was a massive achievement for me and he was really pleased but I think he was just as excited to see a record in the national road relays or something like that.”

Not really," he insisted. "Remember this was an era when Britain boasted Steve Cram, Seb Coe and Steve Ovett head to head, Daley Thompson and Tessa Sanderson, so an Olympic bronze medallist wasn't going to suddenly become a millionaire. The spin-off was colossal for some but not for me." I was deeply satisfied. This was the most satisfying race of my career. I couldn't have done more - the other two were better than me. But I beat some very big names."

Brendan Foster and Charlie Spedding on the impact Dunn had on their lives and the wider sport following the coaching legend’s death aged 77

It was actually my best chance and I had to persuade myself that something I had never imagined was actually happening – that I’d get to past 20 miles and think: “We’re not going fast enough.” I pushed the pace for a while and really reduced that group. Jones powered home, his eventual time of 2:08:16 setting a course record that would stand until 1997. Such was the quality of the running on the day, that Spedding's time of 2:08:33 was 84 seconds faster than the Englishman had ever run before, with third-placed Allister Hutton improving on his personal best time by some seven minutes. It also says a lot about the British athletes of yesteryear, and today unfortunately, that the marks set by Spedding and Hutton still stand as English and Scottish records to this day, a reflection on both their abilities and the shortage in top-quality marathon runners from Britain in the last 30 years or so.

The reason therefore why so many old people have died is because people are living longer and they are the ones with the old-age related diseases. The virus is not selecting according to age, but medical condition. Good summary of the Government made disaster. Signs are this was a dress rehearsal for terminal social end economic ruin – ‘net zero carbon’. Dunn later began coaching fellow Gateshead Harrier Spedding and guided him to an unexpected bronze medal in the Olympic marathon in Los Angeles in 1984 in addition to victory in the London Marathon. As a coach, Dunn enjoyed sharing ideas. None of his sessions or theories were private and it gained him the respect of fellow coaches.It’s often forgotten that Treacy had run the 10,000m heats, then the final, the week before, finishing a respectable ninth: “I’m still doing the marathon, definitely,” he told reporters, immediately afterwards, some of whom had genuine concerns for Treacy’s chances of surviving another 26.2 miles of running in the heat of Los Angeles. This was a man killer, run in searing temperatures that touched 110 degrees but Spedding unbelievably defeated Australia's world champion Rob de Castella, Japan's Toshihiko Seko and world record holder Alberto Salazar of the USA. Bristol staged the World Half Marathon Championships two years ago and they were a great success. However, last year was a damp squib and, in an effort to create more interest and publicity, the organisers decided to bring in eight former stars to run their own race within the body of the main event.

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