Great Britain’s team for the Olympic Games in Paris this summer is starting to take shape.
Back on 6 May 1954, Roger Bannister ran a mile round the University of Oxford athletics track in three minutes 59.4 seconds. Seventy years to the day on from that seismic moment, hundreds of us gathered in front of Christ Church Oxford, waiting to see if we could emulate his achievement. Or in my case, take twice as long to run the same distance.
Marcell Jacobs took the radical decision to dump his coach, up sticks and move from Italy to the United States in his bid to arrive in Paris this summer ready to defend his Olympic 100m title.Jacobs insisted, however, that heading to Paris as the defending title holder was not a bad thing.