Brief notes about some people who have been involved in athletics -- but not always the
ones you expected ...
- Whose Flop?
- Quite a lot of people have won Olympic gold medals by now, but few have changed an event so drastically as the American Dick Fosbury.
Find out a bit more about him here.
- From Athletics To The Double Bass?
- The route to fame for ex-sprinter Chi-Chi Nwanoku. And a couple of other examples to show that athletics and classical
music are not always worlds apart.
- King Henry VIII
- Needless to say, this item is about Henry's younger days....
- One of the Bitterest Sporting Rivalries ...
- ... but it's not between competitors or sports teams ...
- Not the fastest Race-Walker Ever
- ... but there are surely none whose work is better known.
- Bath's Horizontal Jumps Ace
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It's a bit late for Team Bath AC to try to recruit him. Richard “Beau” Nash (1674-1751) played a leading part in elevating the social
status of eighteenth-century Bath.