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Former Athletics Weekly editor Mel Watman, who has been writing on the sport for half a century, pays tribute to Britain's most successful athletes... from Walter George, who revolutionised miling in the 1880s to Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell of Chariots of Fire fame to Mary Rand, Lynn Davies and…
The Amateur Athletic Association, founded in 1880 during a meeting at the Randolph Hotel in Oxford, was for many years the world’s most influential governing body for track and field competition. It was the AAA which established the rules and ethos of the sport. In this official history of the…