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Gold Medallists to start Great North Run


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#1 Futtocks

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Posted 13 September 2012 - 12:59 PM

Greg Rutherford, Nicola Adams, Kat Copeland and Ellie Simmonds have been announced as the honorary starters for this weekend's Great North Run.

Mo Farah will be competing in the race itself.
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Posted 13 September 2012 - 01:23 PM

Mo Farah will be competing in the race itself.


He could catch up couldn't he?

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Posted 13 September 2012 - 01:49 PM

Greg Rutherford, Nicola Adams, Kat Copeland and Ellie Simmonds have been announced as the honorary starters for this weekend's Great North Run.

Mo Farah will be competing in the race itself.


I thought he was just doing the two mile race?

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Posted 13 September 2012 - 06:31 PM

Greg Rutherford, Nicola Adams, Kat Copeland and Ellie Simmonds have been announced as the honorary starters for this weekend's Great North Run.

Mo Farah will be competing in the race itself.

I hope lots of people turn up. I'd turn up to see that crew and congratulate them but I don't even know where it starts from or what time it starts!

#5 Futtocks

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Posted 14 September 2012 - 09:00 AM

I thought he was just doing the two mile race?


Just announced - he's had to withdraw, so he'll be doing the starting with the other guys.
"Journalists are meant to be neutral, for God's sake." - Stephen 'Wiggy' Jones

"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore

"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes




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