Athletico Easthamico 10:13 Mon Mar 23
WHO are your top 3 British athletes of all time?
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1 SEBASTIAN COE
Middle-distance great Coe won 1500m gold at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics and two silvers over 800m. His 1981 800m world record stood until 1997.
2 JONATHAN EDWARDS
His triple jump world record of 18.29m still stands 18 years after he set it in winning the world title in Gothenburg. He won Olympic gold in Sydney in 2000 and a second global title in Edmonton the next year.
3 KATHY COOK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCoAkY7NPug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxuZnL7A2jw
If she hadn't been up against a load of druggies I'm sure she'd have got Olympic and World Gold medals
And she was really fit.
Kathryn Jane Cook MBE (née Smallwood, born 3 May 1960) is one of the most successful female sprinters in British athletics history. She is a three-time Olympic bronze medallist, in the 4 x 100 metres relay in Moscow 1980 and at both the 400 metres and 4 x 100 metres relay in Los Angeles 1984. She won a bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki. She was also a three-time winner of the British Athletics Writers' Association Female Athlete of the Year Award (1980–1982).
Cook held the UK National records for 100 200 and 400 metres for over 25 years. Her 100 metres best of 11.10 secs, stood as the UK record from 1981–2008. Her 400 metres best of 49.43, stood as the UK record from 1984–2013. She had first broken the 400 m record in 1982. In the sprint relay, along with Heather Hunte, Bev Goddard and Sonia Lannaman, she set the UK record with 42.43 at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, which stood as the UK record until 2014. She still holds the 200 m record with 22.10 from 1984. She has been the holder of the 200 m record since 1980. She is also a former holder of the World Best for 300 metres, with 35.46 in 1984.
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On The Ball
10:16 Mon Mar 23
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Seb Coe is a complete cunt and should go to prison for what he did with the Olympic Stadium.
Cunt.
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Takashi Miike
10:16 Mon Mar 23
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Coe, Daley Thompson & Kris Akabusi
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Beast
10:17 Mon Mar 23
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Awoooga
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Darlo Debs
10:19 Mon Mar 23
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Are we defining athletics purely in track and field terms?
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Jonah Lomas
10:20 Mon Mar 23
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Surely Zola Budd and Mo Farah will have to make the list?
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Hello Mrs. Jones
10:21 Mon Mar 23
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C.B. Fry
Daley Thompson
Old Tom Morris
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Athletico Easthamico
10:22 Mon Mar 23
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Darlo Debs 10:19 Mon Mar 23
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Are we defining athletics purely in track and field terms?
Yep.
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10:22 Mon Mar 23
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Cannot say who is to be around in the future but my best British athletes to date are;
Harold Abrahams
Chris Brasher
Dame Kelly Holmes
I have sympathy for several of our athletes over the last thirty or forty years who would have won gold medals but were outdone by drug cheats. Cathy Smallwood and Darren Campbell come to mind.
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mentor
10:23 Mon Mar 23
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Zola Budd
Mohamid Farrah
Christine Owuhuwoogoo
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Athletico Easthamico
10:25 Mon Mar 23
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, 10:22 Mon Mar 23
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I have sympathy for several of our athletes over the last thirty or forty years who would have won gold medals but were outdone by drug cheats. Cathy Smallwood/COOK and Darren Campbell come to mind.
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Darlo Debs
10:30 Mon Mar 23
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Ok A E
Daley Thompson
Sally Gunnell
Mo Farah
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Alwaysaniron
10:32 Mon Mar 23
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Kriss Akabusi
Mo Farah
Daley Thompson
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Athletico Easthamico
10:36 Mon Mar 23
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If Cook had bothered to do 400m hurdles (did they do it in her day?) I'm sure she'd have blasted Gunnell away.
Only room for 3, certainly not Gunnell.
I see Daley Thompson as jack of all trades master of none. That's why he's not in my 3.
Can't find a place for Farah over the other 3.
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Sniper
10:41 Mon Mar 23
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Daley Thompson
Jonathan Edwards
Kelly holmes
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theaxeman
10:47 Mon Mar 23
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Daley Thompson
Roger Bannister
mo farah
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Athletico Easthamico
11:13 Mon Mar 23
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I know Daley Thompson will get a lot of mentions and I suppose he was the best all round athlete of his time.
But I just respect someone like Carl Lewis more who was world class in the 100, 200 and long jump.
But he's American so doesn't count....
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Vexed
11:17 Mon Mar 23
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THOMPSON
JACKSON
FARAH
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Garth Algar
11:18 Mon Mar 23
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Linford Christie
Mo Farah
Roger Black
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Vexed
11:19 Mon Mar 23
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Athletico Easthamico 11:13 Mon Mar 23
I lost my respect for Carl Lewis when it was shown that he was a probable drug cheat like very other cunt of that era.
Before that he was a bit of a legend.
Michael Johnson is a bit of a hero I think, absolute class.
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Vexed
11:20 Mon Mar 23
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Special mention for JARRETT too.
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