Since giving up a full-time job to concentrate on athletics she has been coached at the Shaftesbury/Barnet club by Bruce Longden who also advises Sally Gunnell. However, once in the final, she may exceed her own expections. Her form this season suggests she can satisfy her ambition of reaching the final, with the Commonwealth Games as her main target. Last season he won the UK title.JACQUI AGYEPONG 100 metres hurdlesNOW Britain’s top woman in the sprint hurdles.
On a brief return to Britain in 1990 he finished second to Mark Richardson in the AAA junior championships and two years later finished a close second to Grindley in the AAA championships, which earned him a place in the Olympic 4 x 400 metres squad. As a teenager he lived in the United States and went to university in Austin, Texas. He was the only British runner to reach the 400 metres semi-finals in last year’s world championships. When he beat Black in the TSB Games at Crystal Palace he was upset by the lack of credit he received.
Injuries to David Grindley and Derek Redmond have undoubtedly brought him to prominence more quickly than he expected. Although Black beat him at the AAA championships in Sheffield, Ladejo still felt that time spent training in California at the end of the winter had set him up for a successful season. The 23-year-old Belgrave Harriers runner made his mark internationally only four months ago when he won the European indoor 400 metres title in Paris. DU’AINE LADEJO 400 metres
TWO victories this season over the double European champion Roger Black have made Ladejo an unexpected favourite for gold.
Look at Sandra Farmer-Patrick.’ She came second in Stuttgart, just 0.05sec behind the world record-breaker.(Graphic omitted). ‘I’ve got people in my event who can’t hurdle for the life of them; their strength and their speed is what gets them round. ‘You’ve got to be able to adjust.’Myriad talents indeed, though there are those who have matched her times without having anywhere near the same ability. If there is a headwind down the back straight, for instance, she has to make a split-second decision on what to do, whether she should change her stride pattern, and if so, when to change it, so that her fallible right leg does not lead into the wrong hurdles ‘You can’t be obsessed by your pattern,’ she said. Her background in sprint hurdling, where even more emphasis is placed on technical precision, they say, is largely responsible.Apart from technique and speed, Gunnell also has the ability to think her way round the 400m hurdles, one of the track disciplines that requires a lot more than physical power. Madstock, Finsbury Park, tomorrow, tickets pounds 22.20; ‘Journey to the Edge: Progressive Rock Classics’, MUSCD 018(Photograph omitted).
Those with their heads buried in the more recent past may choose to stumble along to Madstock at Finsbury Park tomorrow.
Jethro Tull: The Grand, Clapham, tickets pounds 15, Thursday 11 Aug. A friend of mine had always thought EM Forster was dead until the great man knocked on his door in college and asked him to turn his record player down. By car from London, turn left off the A23 down Marlpit Lane, immediately before Coulsdon South Station. Even so he is keen to bow out on the tour of England next summer which would be a more appropriate end to an illustrious career.Winston Benjamin will also miss the Indian tour, the bowler having been suspended until 31 December for abusing an official off the field during the final Test against England in April.. Headingley crowds are notorious but they gave me a wonderful reception in and out.’. A hundred would have been the best answer to the gutter press.’Since both those establishment pillars, the BBC and the Times, had been among those criticising Atherton, the more traditional members of the ‘gutter press’ were understandably miffed at this, though they too had generally been in favour of Atherton resigning.Agnew avoided rising to the bait – as did the written press when the comment was later repeated – but it underlined how much Atherton has taken the criticism of him to heart.
MIKE ATHERTON’S press conference, like his innings, faltered just when it looked like being a flawless performance. Given the pressure he was under, Atherton’s day was only slightly spoiled by getting out one run short of what would have been his eighth Test century, and it at least saved him from having to risk putting his hand in his pocket for a round of celebration drinks.This was the second time in consecutive home summers that Atherton has been out for 99 in a Test match but the crowd gave him a three-figure ovation in any event. England 268-4 v South Africa
HAS the man no shame? There he was, in full view of the crowd, the television cameras, the umpires, and the International Cricket Council match referee, clearly altering the condition of the ball. He will always have a special place in our hearts.’Sheffield Wednesday also moved to sign a new player yesterday although the identity of the pounds 1.3m left-back remained a mystery that was only partially solved by the knowledge he had played in the World Cup.Trevor Francis, the Wednesday manager who has made inquiries for Brazil’s Leonardo and Argentina’s Jose Chamot, said the fee and the player’s terms had been agreed and that the deal would be completed within the next 48 hours. You get days like that but I only missed two greens and I drove well which was the key to my score,’ Davies said after her round.Davies holed from 12 and eight feet for birdies at the sixth and 18th holes and a couple of two-putt birdies came at the long ninth and 10th holes.. His only blueprint in Britain will be unveiled next July and it is, of course, at the home of golf.. Thereafter he became part of Royal and Ancient folklore: second in 1952, second in 1953, first in 1954, first in 1955, first in 1956, second in 1957, first in 1958.