NEXT WINTER’S 2XU Surrey League will return to Richmond Park after a letter was sent to local MP Zac Goldsmith about the jeopardy surrounding its staging.
Kingston & Polytechnic Harriers (K&P) has organised cross-country races in the park since the league’s inception in 1962, although it has not been on an annual basis and the park authority was set to refuse permission due to the large number of events planned.
However, according to the league’s secretary, Martin Duff, also an AW correspondent, the mother of K&P athlete Matthew Hyett wrote a letter to Goldsmith, an environmental campaigner best known for his unsuccessful bid to become London mayor earlier this year, citing London 2012’s legacy.