Not necessarily, but I would hate to watch the run-off to decide, between her and her cousin Derartu. Having suffered the mind-numbing experience of watching a woman who can run 14min 11sec for 5000 metres, dawdle through a fifteen and … Read more

Hassiba Boulmerka was as pugnacious an interviewee as she was a competitor, as I discovered when I went to Algeria in late 1991, to interview her following her victory in the IAAF World Championships earlier that year. Her victory in … Read more