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Robo Woman - 1968, taken from the British Pathe reel "Miss Honeywell - World's First Robotic Woman". See this playlist of our best clips:

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It's unlikely there will ever be an Olympics like the 1968 Mexico Olympics again....the rarified air giving the shorter distances a huge advantage....

Fight for your right

Australians Jackson and Strickland dominated womens sprints at this time (they won five Olympic gold medals beween them and during thier careers b...

By 1974 in the UK we already knew of Ovett,winning national titles and international medals whilst still a teenager,but assumed he would go the way...

Inbetween Snell's 1960 and '64 Olympic successes Snell did the double at the Commonwealth Games,held in Perth,Australia. In a great 880 yards Snell...

We've all seen the 1980 800 metres final umpteen times,but probably not in sequence with the heats and semis? Looking at these clips ,Ovett's later...

Bill Parnell of Canada gets past front running Len Eyre of England (who had already won the 3 mile race ) over the final yards of the mile event to...

Released 10th July 1964, the album was released with their first movie, A Hard Days Night.

The title came from Ringo - Paul recalled "Someone sa...

7th February 1964 - The Beatles arrive at JFK airport in New York for their first US performances - this was the press conference that took place...

After many years of seemingly living in the retired Colin Jackson's shadow,Turner finally came good in 2010 ,winning both European and Commonwealth...

The Beatles

Just twelve days after his 1500 metre victory at the Moscow Olympics Coe lined up against many of the top middle distance runners of the day who h...

In one of the greatest ever Olympic track finals,Australian Ralph Doubell outkicks front running Kenyan and pre-race favourite Wilson Kiprugut,equa...

The 6th May,1954.Over half a century on and this still remains one of the most iconic sporting achievements in history.Run early season because his...

Backley in his prime. With the competion pretty much already won,he unleashed a huge 86.02 metre throw (the WR at the time was 87.66) ,securing th...

1. Petra Vogt 11.66 sec.

2. Wilma van den Bug 11.74 sec.

3. Anita Neil 11.81 sec.

5. Karin Balzer 11.8 sec.

6. Regina Höfer 11.8 sec.

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Swift Fantasy Our Champion does it again!!! Gooooood GIRL LADY!!! She ran this race with a patched up nail as she tore some of it off exposing the ...

The closing 1,000 metres (sorry,I don't have the opening lap) of one of the greatest 1500 metres races ever - both Cram and Aouita knocking a secon...