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OCTOBER 1988 ISSUE26 £1.00 Can Daley? Or Liz, Tom, Yvonne, Steve, Tessa, Fatima, Linford, Jack, Colin, Jon, Tony, Peter, John, or Eamonn? - --- Olympic Special Centre Pages ' 8COTMNU8 RUNNER Run For Charity Oclobeir", 1988 lssue2G Now is the time to consider which charity will benefit from your efforts Edhor: Alan Campl)Gll next year. Fiona Caldwell reports. Auoclalo Editor: 0otJg Gillon Coaching Clinic Erperto: Jim Black MChS Derek Parker urges road runners to Prof John Hawthorn Greg Mclatchie MB ChB FRCS try cross country as a spiritual Our new running shoe is designed to be a winner. It's called the P.B. and its Lena Wighton MCSP alternative to pounding the streets. Contrlbuto"': actually two shoes rolled into one. For starters, the P.B. is a racing shoe. And as youd Carolyn Brown Fraser Clyne Danger On The Ben expect from a good racing shoe, it wont weigh you down. Graham Crawford FiMa Macaulay Susan Bailey investigates the back Stewan Mcintosh For example, the P.B. has a sole thats made fron1 an exceptionally light, flexible Bill MolvilJo ground to this year's Ben Nevis race Robin Morris which could have ended in tragedy. SOO Henty Muchamore and hard wearing material called Goodyear Indy rubber. Graeme Smilh Linda Trottor This helps it tip the scales at only 200 grams and it'll help David Wan Olympics 1988 David Webster you get around the course a bit faster. Evenla and Rewlls Compllor: Tommy Boyle and John Anderson But what makes the P.B. miles better than most racing shoes is Colin Shield• discuss their athletes· prospects with Sale. Director: Alan Campbell. that you can actually train in it as well. Mike Hams Advertising Sal8": It has a dual density midsole which will cushion your feet Fiona Caldwell Club Profile Special and allow you to do any number of sessions. Admlnlotrallon and Clrcufallon: John Coltman brings us up to date on Sandra Whittaker It also has a sturdy heel counter which will support your foot on every rw1. the centenary celebrations of Hawick's Teviotda/e Harriers. But there's another reason why you should make tracks for the P.B. Its also an On other Pages ... extremely comfortable shoe to wear. I The upper is made from nappa pigskin and polypag nylon. So it's very light and 8COTM!VUJ RUNNER 5 Inside Lane 47 Rankings supple, and it'll mould around the natural shape of your foot Whats more, its also cut 7 Up Front 50 Results Front Cover: 13 Letters 52 Race Profile Daley Thompson on Ns - ~}> ,,_ low around theheel so it wont irritate your achilles tendon. 19 Women in Sport 54 Rankings way ., tl>o Olympic gold tnedal In Los Aogetes. 29 Orienteering 55 Events ..... You can try on the P.B. at any good sportS shop. HcM w.11 llrilain faro In Seoul? See centre page-.s. ~ 15 Women in Sport 60 Sports Network 45 Veterans 61 Competition But you'll have to be quick. Because when a l'!lotograph by Ma rlt Shtarman. ~MT' O!" Lit, t-,"-, S... ..... hlllU l.lnlcfll. JKit. Colh, • r-------------------, shoes this good, there's fottf,,....,Jft\.Of(- ? I AIR MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RA TES I Otpqplc Sp$clll C«itre P.IQH I Give a girt of a year's subscription to Scotland's Runner to a I bound to be a run on it I friend or relative living abroad. The rates are: I Scolland's Rumer,. publis!\ed by SootRun Publiea•oos Ltd., USA and Canada............................. ............. ............. £19.00 ~. KolvlngroveStreot, Glasgow G3 ?SA. Tel: 041-332·5?38. I I Prin1ed by ~odale (Sccliand) Lid. I Europe....... ............................... .................................£17 .50 I ~aabdk I New Zealand and Ausualia. ...................................... £21.00 I At the heart of sport. ~------ ---- ------- --~ Scotland's Runner October 1988 3 DO YOU IT'S STILL described as The Grcat<?sl the leader of the local mountain rescue Show On Earth, and certainly where team who claimed that eight runners hype is concerned the.re are few were within 30 minutes of death. occasions to match the Olympic Carnes. Quite apart from the distress and suf REQUIRE In other words, only one hand is More importantly, and despite the fering caused to relatives and friends emergence of the World Champion required to coUJ>I how many Scotsmen by such a tragedy, runners also have an ships, Olympic gold remains the have won individual Olympic athletics obligation to their sport and the fact ultimate pri1.c to which every athlete medals, and two to include the Scots that some embarked on this race clad aspires. who have been members of a relay only in vest and shorts -despite having Programmes, brochures, Incredibly, for a nation which gives team. been warned about the conditions - such a low priority to athletics (and With Brian Whittle having a strong takes the breath away (almost literally indeed all so-called minority sports), interest in the 400m relay team, we are in some cases). leaflets or other printed Scotland enters the track and Acid privileged this year to have more than That people ,.~•1 die when running - as arena with three individual medal a nodding acquaintance with the happened in \..la.sgow and Aberdeen on material published? possibilities in Liz McColgan, Yvonne Olympics. But realistically, one medal September 11 - is inevitable because we Murray and Tom McKean. of any metal will represent a satisfac all have lo die somewhere, but to invite To put this assertion firmly into per tory haul as our past record confirms. trouble as a minority did on Ben Nevis If so, phone and tell us about your require spective - and to leave no doubt just The athletes' coaches have been at does a great disservi<e to athletics in pains lo point out that all we can expect how difficult it is to win an Olympic general, and hill running in particular. ments medal - Scotland has won just three is for their charges lo perform to the individual athletics gold medals this very best of their abilities. None of century (and Ave in total through Dick McColgan, Murray nor McKcan can McTaggart and David Wilkie). claim lo have done that in the Rome 041-332-5738 The golden Scots were Wyndham World Championships last year, and Halswelle in the 400 metres at London each will be anxious to justify them in 1908 (a walkover when the final was selves on the Olympic stage. WE WERE heacling for a record o rdered to be re-run and the three Sadly, athletics nowadays is about number of Lette.rs to the Editor in this Americans involved refused to partici more than honest endeavour otherwise issue before the mail ground lo an NEW FROM THE USA FOR LADY RUNNERS pate); Eric Liddell, also in the 400 Li:i; McColgan, in particular, would abrupt halt because of the postal dis metres, at Paris in 1924; and ofcourse have an outstanding chanoe of emulat· pute. This was particularly disappoint Allan Wells in Moscow eight years ago ing Halswellc, Liddell and Wells. Bui ing as I was looking forward lo seeing The ]oglYra® (when the Americans were again not both she and her coach, John Anderson, the reaction to some of the letters and present). Two other Scots, Henry are confident she will strike gold, and articles in our September issue. Hope Ho.)IJ~ bfceb di:IK" to bod) ~"!» (rf.N Ill hktand Macintosh (Stockholm, 1912) and for once these claims are not made of fully readers will take the view that it is -.·otlw"'I blndi"I! t'.Ml.'IOI 6111 ----JI.' sand. 10 10 <:0.1on l)'(l'••hbfK: b _.11...-- W'kk- Mr~ do not <14 IMO Robert Lindsay (Antwerp, 1920), have still not too late contribute some of ~· U'ld aotlbut ,\haul~ won relay gold medals. We wish all our Olympians well, and the points ra.ised in that publication. (Qftlft)dll\f. - -----.1'- ~,..--Stll'l'l,. ('uf .rwl)'fromll~ WHk ribWIXl l.«'P'~'· IA.I C'lnnlNilC' d 1&f-.ig Wells also won a 200 metre silver thank them for giving us a bigger Thanks to encouraging signs of prog f.rml) Jnd com1'Qt111l.ll)' if\ 5"""1 ~· t'«lb ~, ..tirtt medal in Moscow, the only individual interest than we arc used to for the ress on the commercial side we have ~. ITlllUCIK't ttlllttU .. Scot ever so to do. Relay silvers have event. been able to increase the numbers of SPECIALISTS IN Sizes: 32-34AB small, 34-36BC medium, 36-38CD large been won by Alistair McCorquodalc {a pages in each of the last two issues, and Colour: While. Price: £12.95. Only available In lhe UK from member of the family which founded hopefully also made the product Racket sports, running, football our present priJ>le.rs!) in London in brighter and more attractive to the eye. clothing and accessories. 1948 and David Jenkins {Munich 1972). AS SUSAN Bailey reports on Page 29, All of this is meaningless, however, if Large selection of Reebok, Eric Liddell won a 200 metre bronze there could have been a horrific readers don't use the magazine lo air Brooks, New Balance and medal in Paris, as James Wilson had outcome to this year's Ben Nevis Raoe, their views on the topics of the day - so, Hi-Tee footwear. four years previously in Antwerp in the \\'hen conditions were the worst cxperi· please. keep these letters flowing! 10,000 metres, and Ian Stewart was to cnced for almost 40 years. Racket repairs (same day do in the Munich 5,000 metres (and As it was.