March 22, 2007 (62-12)

CONTENTS

6 News
Sprinter Vernicha James
plans her comeback

7 Jo Pavey out of Britain’s World Cross team

8 Athletes will have to work harder to gain a GB vest

9 Teenage stab victim was John Regis’s nephew

10 Julie Crane given Beijing boost

12 News focus
England Athletics hit by resignations

14 World Cross Preview
A race-by-race guide to the action in Mombasa, Kenya

16 Norrie Williamson reports from the Great Britain & NI training camp in Durban

18 Kenenisa Bekele profile

20 Rising stars feature
Andrew Livingstone on training for the World Cross while working full-time

22 Rising stars
Ryan Farrington’s rise to sprint medallist after suffering from
a rare muscle illness

24 Coaching
Part three of Ron Parker’s guide to sprint hurdling

26 Feature
World javelin No.1 Andreas Thorkildsen aims to join the throwing greats

29 Products
The shoe that protects
against injuries by mimicking the gait of the Masai tribe

30 Letters
Your reaction to the road running debate

32 Poster
A classic image from the
1992 World Cross Country Championships

34 Comment
Geoff Newton says athletics has not moved with the times

35 Club focus
Orion Harriers

36 Where are they now?
Six-time English Schools’ champion Emma Ward talks about her comeback

38 AW Basics
The essential building blocks for any training programme

41 Results
Includes the adidas Silverstone Half-marathon and the top overseas action

51 Preview
English Schools’ Cross Country Championships

52 What’s On
Upcoming fixtures

62 Last lap
Pictorial look back to the 1987 Emsley Carr Mile in Gateshead
 

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