GV White City Stadium for Athletics event. CU Starter. GV Men starting for the 220 yards Inter County Championships final and running towards camera. GV Pan the 220 in progress, they come into the final straight with No 20 Steane furthest from camera breaking the tape to win. CU RS...
GV White City Stadium for Athletics event. CU Starter. GV Men starting for the 220 yards Inter County Championships final and running towards camera. GV Pan the 220 in progress, they come into the final straight with No 20 Steane furthest from camera breaking the tape to win. CU RS Steane of Middlesex.
GV The start of the 880 yards. GV Crowd. GV Mike Fleet leading and John Bolter moves up to take the lead. GV Crowd. GV In the final straight Bolter leading from Robbie Brightwell who hits the front and breaks the tape. CU Brightwell.
GV The start of the 4 x 1o0 Relay with the British 'A' Team on the outside lane. They start with Radford running the first leg for the A' team. Peter Radford hands over to Derek Young, Young hands over to David Jones, Jones to A Meakin, Meakin nearest camera goes into the lead and breaks the tape. GV Crowd. SV the British 'A' team.
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"Steane" is Dick Steane.
John Bolter should read John Boulter.
"A Meakin" is Alf Meakin.
The "Bolter" name needs changing 3 times in text and tags,