Tokyo 1964: a poignant marathon medal ceremony featuring Abebe Bikila, Basil Heatley and Kokichi Tsuburaya – see p20-23 – only one of whom survives today
MARK SHEARMAN
editor’s comment
BACK IN 2004, the British marathon runner Bill Adcocks tentatively published his life story. Brilliantly ghost-written by AW’s former news editor, Trevor Frecknall, it told the tale of a Coventry gas-fitter whose 2:11:07 in the Athens Marathon survived as a course record for 35 years.
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