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Introducing...
Pat Butcher is a writer, journalist, television producer and commentator; and also operates a media service for several top road races around the world.
Although writing occasionally on subjects of general interest, his speciality is track and field athletics.
He first attended the Olympic Games in Munich 1972; and has covered all World Athletics Championships and Olympic Games as writer and/or commentator since 1980.
Please consult the menu for links to a variety of projects, from the highly acclaimed book, The Perfect Distance: Ovett & Coe, The Record Breaking Rivalry; to the television documentaries, Arabian Knight, The Story of Saïd Aouita and Race For Kenya; to the radio programmes Sport In the Movies and Coe & Ovett in Moscow; to various newspaper, magazine and website articles; and links to the events which he helps publicise across the world.
Unless otherwise accredited, all pictures on this site are from Victah Sailer at www.photorun.net
Butcher's Blog
June 30, 2009
THE UNBEARABLE WAIT OF EXPECTATION
Where a championship will always score over a one-off event, no matter how well hyped the latter may be, is in how the level of expectation is racked up by the succession of heats, rounds or qualifiers, with precarious favourites, sudden contenders, and surprise outsiders streaking into the frame for the final.
That expectation has already begun to build with the first major national trials held this past weekend, and selection of th ...Read more
Archive
June 23, 2009
LATE VOCATION
There is a saying in the Catholic church that a late vocation (the call to the priesthood) is the best; meaning that the novice is usually older, more ...Read more
June 15, 2009
AND THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN
If there is one sport where performance enhancing drugs seem to be more prevalent than in track and field athletics, it is cycling. And for those who t ...Read more
June 8, 2009
PAID TO LOSE!
Following the Ottawa Marathon a couple of weeks ago, I got a message from a Canadian correspondent, who was irked at what she described as, EPO cheat A ...Read more
June 1, 2009
MAKING HISTORY
One of the off-track highlights in Beijing last summer turned out to be an IAAF press conference on the afternoon preceding the men's 200 metres final. ...Read more
Gallery
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Book: The Perfect Distance Ovett & Coe: The Record Breaking Rivalry
Right now...they were virtually anonymous. But when the time came, almost everybody in the world would know their names.
DVD: Arabian Knight, The Story of Saïd Aouita - (running time: 48mins)
...there was never a dull moment. Nothing Aouita said or did lacked excitement. He could talk a good race, but run a great one.
DVD: Race For Kenya - (running time: 50mins)
...the pace of growth in the Kenyan running community has continued unabated. In 2006, an extraordinary number of Kenyans, over 500 ran a marathon under 2hr 20min.
