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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 is currently athletics correspondent for the Financial Times in London and expert summariser on Olympic Games and Athletics World Championships for BBC World Service Radio.
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
Latest...
May 14, 2008
ATHLETICS KENYA
WHOSE SIDE ARE THEY ON?
CERTAINLY NOT THE ATHLETES!
I have never yet met an elite athlete who has not fallen out with his/her federation. It's almost a rite of passage, like getting beaten out of sight in one of your first competitions, and knowing you've really got to knuckle down and train hard if you're going to make it.
Or at a simpler level, ie that of you and me, it's like getting roaring drunk on your first weekend at college, and learning from your mistake. Or in some cases, maybe not. As for the federations themselves, do they ever learn from their mistakes? Almost certainly not. Take the Kenyan federation! A group of men (it's almost always men) who think Athletics Ken
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Famous Features
April 3, 2008
Dwain Chambers
Hypocrisy has long been the stock-in-trade of UK athletics administrators, through a century of 'shamateurism' then wilful ignorance of the extent of d ...Read more
March 23, 2008
The Greatest?
Nineteen years ago, a skinny 15 year old did what millions of country kids over the centuries have done. Haile Gebrselassie went up to the big city, to ...Read more
March 11, 2008
Ecce Homo
It was a tiny gesture, but it spoke volumes. Two years ago, an already frail and forgetful Emil Zatopek was introduced to the wife of a visitor to the ...Read more
March 9, 2008
Raining Kenyans
Out of the dark and the thick vegetation they come. Spectral figures gliding silently across the damp, red earth. It is a primal, almost primeval scene ...Read more
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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.