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THE CHINA MAIL,
THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1981.
Arthur Lydiard: New Zealand's ace
PETER SNELL
coach claims...
MURRAY HALBERG
BARRY MAGEE
"If I had
trained
Pirie
Halberg's creator wants
to coach
in Britain
Arthur Lydiard, the 'brilliant coach behind New Zealand Olympic cham- pion Murray Halberg and Peter Snell, wants to coach in Britain. He is considering a five-year professional appointment in the U.S., but would prefer a chance to work in England as he considers England has tremendous talent and potential.
If u acheine'could be worked out to link Lydiard with Geoff Dyson, the furiner chief nationul coach who has resigned Lecause of "fritration," Britain would hove the nest combitation in the world.
by-
TERRY O'CONNOR
Obviously they could not work together under the present coaching theme, which is easen- | been ùn amateur couch, but tially designed to teach trainers I would like the opportunity of and athletes,
working as a professional" for
ve years to see how much can But if the AAA can find a
be achieved, and then pass on camnicrcial
their Sponsor for
£5,000 my knowledge to others." championships for should not be too dimeult to find the money to pay 1.ydiardi and Dyson
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"Murray is to competitive he ever wants to win in training." Lydiard's own resolution was shown when, for two years, he did two jobs to give himself inancial Security, During the factory day he worked us a Lydiard became coach manager and from midnight to almost by nockent. After giv-7 am delivered milk.
Athletes ing up senior Rugby at the age will follow
of that of 26 he took to running
to enlibre. keep in good physical condition. "Some Joker I knoy who was ten years older challenged ne then to a ten-mile rur. Only
did I realise how taft I was!" Britain's waning middle-¦ says this small determined distance' prestige can be restored | man, who on the present New then the sport must also prosper | Zealand tour, has proved that Onancially by the return ut big coaches can also inake Anc
Athletes supportera" chdas and Internationa! athletics could also help.
crowds.
Guinea-pig
lubs
Britain needs the fresh, suc- cessful approach of Lydiard, who :
has produced world champions
ruited material,
from
manners,
So wrong
"1 tested all the known
them
Quite simple
There is nothing compileated about my theories," Lydiard told me. "They are simply bused on gaining more stamina to sustain the necessary speed,
When Snell came to me as schoolboy he had just broken two minutes for thehalf-mile. I told him that any decent athlete can run 440 yards in di seconds, and that it is only inek of stamina which prevented repeating this the second time Jound. Snell joined in the
Soon wrong.
He used himself as a guinea-theories of running and found pix to fasllen his idem, and is most of convinced that European middles ↑ others, including Halberg tennarathon-type training of Hal distance training methods ure years ago, asked me to help
wrong.
Chem.
(third at
"When Barry Magee al-
Olymply marathon in the Rome) amb along I talked him
I lato, the marathon realised it would sap his confi- dence if he tried Halberg's dit- tances.
"Ten years ago I said borg would be one of the world's finest runner, and thus laughed at me." says Lydlard. "Now I would like the oppor tunity to prove my ideas with British athletes. I have always
because
Magee and become berg and the Olymple 800-metres cham- pion.
"Many Europeans have tried to follow the successful methods of Emil Zatopek without doing The same work. Zatopek used font-interval rims and jogs, I
cut out the intervals because I
...I would have
seen that, he was 'right' for the big occasion
believe the body must get used to racing speeri,
"Then the extra effort, like when Hdberg broke away from the Olymple 5,000-metres fleld,
becomes easier.
One of the problems for Bri tish athletes is that they must be di early in the scason 20
This then carry on too long. means their bodies are not in they proper condition when stort racing.
'Big occasion
"Gordon Pirie is one of the world's finest athletes, but he is seldom right on the important day. What I guarantee is to ensure the athlete is ready for the big occasion."
Al present Lydiard is on top, and he and Dyson together can build champions-provided they are allowed to get down to the jub and are not cluttered by Committees.
Four D. Jones BY MADDOCKS
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DICING WITH DEATH
The trouble with Grand Prix 1
motor-racing-
-world's most criticised sport
By LEWIS DE FRIES
rogr
The drivers are tenso in their seats, gloved hands grasping the
wheel, eyes on the starter's flag. It falls. There is a of high-powered engines, the pungent smell of burning rubber from spinning wheels, und the gleaming cars hurtle forward in a cloud of blue smoke.
Each man, master of his own noisy little world, watches intent- ly through his goggles for the first opportunity to get ahead. His one thought is to be first past the flag at the end of the
race.
Mans, June 1958. The Grond Prix D'Endurance, the French 24-hour race, had been going for
vast two hours. The
erowd to the one thrilled
duck between himi Mike Hawthorn in a Jaguar and
champion Fanglo in not world
gleaning silver Mercedes Benz. 80 deaths
con-
A
race
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in 3 parts
nose over tall. Hermann owed his life up the fact that he was thrown out at the first roll. A second later the car was 1000 places.
Had the escape road' been ured for its proper purpose and not filed in with a barrier Her marn could probably have stopped without serious damage. There was little chance of his hitting another car at the base of the hairpin..
One of the worst lackdents involving spectators took place nt Aix-les-Bains in 1000, ̃B:1- tlah driver Chris Threlfall BAW 4 wooden bridge over the track ahead of him about to collapse under the were
weight of jammed onlookers. He could not leave the
for in the world-as unsuitable further Grand Prix racing. He said people at the asking whether it was tair to expect drivers to average 134 miles an hour en an ordinary rond.
Take the blood-smeared his tory of the Mille Miglia, the world's oldest race. In 1957, disasters to
after a nerien of drivers and spectators. three drivers and an Italian pollen- man patrolling the oircuit were killed.
The man who wins, his gring face split in a grin of triumph, puses for the photographers amid a roar of enthusiasm from de- lighted
But spectators. driver who thundered with over the starting line is there to grip his hand in gratulations.
fying bolde thei Ho
A car swerved and went at- twisted, smaking wreckage of
most broad:ide HCJOSS the his car. He will never гдее agalo.
track. Another car hit it, sunt And to the pits a
It Bying over the barriers into stricken wife pads.
the spectators. packed in their Motor racing has claimed an- other victim. The news will be thousands behind a bank. Over
There was uproar in the 11 will 80 died. Parts of the other cor in the papers next day.
Parliament. Nambers into people standing Italian
soki that a race which had kill- take scene of the shine off the smashed winner's Achievement, And at the pits.
ed 20 people and injured 20 in thousands who have never been? A fortune was spent improv- | seven years should be ended at within miler of a netor-tute | ing the circull, but it did notance. The Government agreed, will shake their heads and any prevent a further accident.
but eventually they were per- When Jean Behra was killed suaded to change the sport should be banned.
their minds Are they right? People
In the German Grand Prix, and allowed it to be run in 1958 motor racing say its dutractors drivers stormed that the eir-
subject to modifications. de noi know whatdhey are talk- cult was dangerous because of the high speed necessary and g about when they claim it is too dangerous.
the layout of the track, básic ally twin tracks of an auto- bahn
Pros and cons
J
Let us examine the facts for and exainst.
First the facts againat.
Practising for the Belgian Grand Prix in 1980, Stirling Muss was thrown out of his var Since the end of the war a at 130 mlles an hour, Both his disturbing number of (op-rate legs were broken. „He had three illed or cracked ribs, a broken nose and drivers have been injured. The dend Include he last several teeth. The cur French champions Jean Behrn, somersaulted, hit a bank on the killed at Berlin in 1950: Harry left, bounced right across the Echell, at Silverstone. 1960: track into a field." Archie Scol:- Peter Collins in the German Brown and the pre-war nee. Grand Priz 1058:
former Dick Seaman, had died on the world champion Alberto As-
come stretch of track. Mike cari at Moss, 1955; the Mar Taylor crasheri örbhe name day quia de Portago in the Milte Moss. Miglia. 1857.
Boycotted
run and two
road without_ploughing through spectators,He stayed on his cours-and the bridge crashed on top of him. Four people who fell with the bridge were killed with him and of the 20 taken died later.
to hospital, two
Power reduced
As accident Aquires mounted, the men who run international motor racing went into a huddle at their Paris headquarters.
They announced that cate must be reduced in power and drivers made heavier, British and designers. protested for a year in vain. Those in other countries resigned themselves to the change and got down to the job of building cars to the new formula, thus endangering Britain's newly won domination of the sport.
The committee ignored the British claim that less power meant Increased diffleulty in pulling out of tight. Jerbor and put inferior drivers on an equal footing with aoes--two factors which might increase accidents.
This season will show whether the International coinmittee have found the answer to curbing the | danger of motor racing.
The race was more drivers died... It was not held in 1980 “Because, no suitable date could be arranged,"
1997 Stirling Moss, Peter.
all eller Collins and almost leading European drivers boy- colted the Italian Grand Prix In- because the Monza circuit cluded a stretch of new banking. Balian racing experts jeered when foreign drivers said they were concerned about the risk. "Perhaps it is an excuse because the money is not elevated as much as the corners," said one. organisors ignore the protests of drivers against
A1 track conditions.
Avis, during the German Grand Prix During the race, Alan-Stacey of 1950, Jack Brabham and in vain was killed when a bird hit his other drivers ploaded of La guggies and made him lose con- | for the removal of a heavy trol. Chris Bristow, trying to barricade of straw bales. Brab- pass another car, swung too far ham pointed out that to the left, hitting a straw bale, | driver were to lose his brales He was thrown out and died as he pulled up for a hairpin from head injuries.
there might be a serious rash The case for motor The winner, world champion because the natural es racing. A top driver
Many more, less famous, huve! been killed.
Spectators, too, have died.
the horror | There was
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In the meantime, drivers and organisers have plenty to BBY, both in defence of their sport and how to cut down risks.
For the most ardent enthusiast 18 honest enough to admit that the world's most criticised sport can stand a lot of improving.
NEXT WEEK
And that is exactly what hape answers the critics BRM had brake failure and had and presents his own plan for greater
Jack Brabham, said later: "It was a terribly dangerous Tacc. The speeds were so high, the bazards so great. We all nar- rowly missed disaster from low flying birds." One expert described the eight-and-three- The car hit quarter mile circuit-the fastest tremendous speed and
no alternative but to go for the bales.
them
rolled
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