[Mobile library] The Impossible Hero: A Biography of Gordon 'Puff Puff' Pirie
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| #10820841 in Books | 1999-11-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File Name: 0953667103 | 286 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent biography of one of the 1950's greatest distance runners|By Geoffrey J. Wilhelmy|Excellent biography of one of the 1950's greatest distance runners. Gordon Pirie was one of several British distance runners who emerged after World War II to rewrite world distance records. Inspired by Czechoslovakia's Emile Zatopak's performance in the 1948 London Olympic Games, Gordon
Gordon Pirie was one of the best-known sports personalities of his day. During the 1950s his races against Zatopek and Kuts captured the imagination of millions. Crowds flocked to the White City stadium to see him run. With Bannister, Chataway and others Pirie led a revival in British athletics. He inspired generations of young athletes, first as a runner and later as a coach. At the time, the records he set, and the training he did, seemed little short of impossible. P...
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