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If a Hollywood scriptwriter had come up with the extraordinary story of Agnes Keleti – the world’s oldest Olympic champion, who celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday – as a piece of fiction, they surely would have been told to rein it in. Fleeing the Nazis, surviving the Holocaust with a false ID, and later escaping the Soviet clampdown on Hungary? Competing in a first Olympic Games aged 31 before going on to win more medals than anyone else.
Pacesetters have always been employed by race organisers for world record attempts with specific instructions for lap times.
They also play a crucial role in avoiding the deception tactics common in competitions as they race away from the start line giving the other runners the impression that they are far behind.
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Pacesetting became prominent after Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway successfully paced Roger Bannister to break the four-minute mile for the first time in 1954.
Andrew Rotich, who has paced several Diamond League meetings and the World Challenge, said the earnings have kept decreasing over the years.
Bobby Davro s father has died
BANG Showbiz 8/01/2021 Bang Showbiz
Bobby Davro s father has died.
The 62-year-old actor and comedian has taken to social media to pay tribute to his best friend and hero Bill Nankeville, who passed away on Friday (08.01.21) at the age of 95.
Sharing a picture of him and his father, he wrote on Twitter: Today I lost my best friend and my hero.The most wonderful human being I have ever known. I m so proud of him. He was GB mile champion and represented his country in two Olympic games but to me he was just Dad . I will miss him so very much and I will love him forever . Whenever I was with him and he was introduced to anyone as, This is Bill Nankeville he s Bobby Davro s father . I was always proud to say No . I m Bobby Davro and I m Bill Nankeville s son! Sleep well dad. I love you to the moon and back x (sic)