Running Scared

How Athletics Lost Its Innocence

• Author(s): Steven Downes, Duncan Mackay,
• Publisher: Mainstream
• Pages: 224
• ISBN_10: 1851588558
  ISBN_13: 9781851588558
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Sports & Recreation / General , Sports & Recreation / Track & Field , Sports & Recreation / Cultural & Social Aspects ,

Description:... Athletics has become Britain's most successful sport, and this work investigates the human cost of that success. It charts the trials and tribulations of the Olympic Games' principal sport which have included the achievements of Coe, Ovett, Thompson, Christie and Gunnell.