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Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe, CH, KBE, Hon FRIBA (born 29 September 1956), often referred to as Seb Coe, [3] [4] is a British sports administrator, former politician and retired track and field athlete. As a middle-distance runner, Coe won four Olympic medals, including 1500 metres gold medals at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984.
Sebastian Coe and Roger Bannister on the 50th anniversary of the four-minute mile at Iffley Road 6 May 2004. By 2005, the track again was of poor quality. Two years later Lord Coe, the Chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, opened the newly refurbished running track on 10 May 2007. The running ...
Bannister: Everest on the Track, The Roger Bannister Story is a 2016 TV documentary about his childhood and youth in WWII and postwar Britain and the breaking of the 4-minute mile barrier, with interviews of participants and witnesses to the 1954 race, and later runners inspired by Bannister and his achievement, including Phil Knight who says ...
Crossword. Solve puzzle clues across and down to fill the numbered rows and columns of the grid with words and phrases. By Masque Publishing. Advertisement. Advertisement. all. board. card. casino.
As a result, war-related words including those codenames got into the crosswords; Dawe said later that at the time he did not know that these words were military codewords. On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid , 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a ...
Ruth Crisp (1918–2007) (born Margery Ruth Edwards, who compiled under the names "Crispa" and "Vixen") was one of The Guardian ' s most noted crossword compilers – producing puzzles for them from 1954 to 2004.
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
Last Word is a radio obituary series broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 4. Each week, the lives of recently-deceased famous people are summarised with narration and interviews with people who knew them. It is normally presented by Matthew Bannister, although occasionally it has been presented by others, including Kate Silverton and Julian Worricker.