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December
21st 2006 (61-51)
CONTENTS
6 News
Donna Fraser seeks return to world-class one-lap running
7
Best-ever London Marathon women’s field claimed
8
End-of-year stats confirm Brits’ sorry world stature
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Steve Lewis eyes tough pole vault target for Euro Indoors
10
Cash on offer for Scottish record-breakers next year
12 News
focus
Birmingham plans to stage the best-ever European Indoor
Championships
14
Olympic news
Mo Farah heads scheme to pick out 2012 talent
16
Brussels CrossCup
Wins for Charlotte Purdue and Martin Mashford as Mo Farah suffers in
the mud
19
Interview
Nick McCormick plots a better year after a mixed 2006
20 Lee
McConnell
Why the Commonwealth bronze medallist is clearing hurdles on and off
the track
22
Athletes of the Year
Find out who our readers voted for across the 10 categories
25
Rising stars
The 17-year-old Ethiopian who is the No.1 10,000m runner in the
world’s best distance-running nation
26
Coaching
Don’t believe everything you read, says Frank Horwill
27
Letters
Your views on vets’ fixtures and the European Cross-Country
Championships
28
Review of the Year
The best, worst and most amusing moments of 2006
34
Comment
Max Jones’ Christmas wish list
35 AW
Quiz
Test your knowledge of a year in athletics and win a pair of Saucony
shoes
36 Where
are they now?
Joan Benoit, the first women’s Olympic marathon champion
38
All-time greats
Mel Watman’s ranking system reveals Carl Lewis to be history’s most
successful male athlete
41
Results
Includes results of the South of the Thames Cross Country and the
Telford 10km
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What’s On
Expanded fixtures section lists what’s coming up over the next three
months on the road, fells, trails and tracks
60 Last
Lap
Revisiting a classic two-mile grand prix race from 1987
December
28th 2006 (61-52)
2006 Annual Review
World and UK top 50
plus World and UK merit rankings
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