Profile: Gaston Roelants   b. February 5, 1937  1.74/5’8  67kg/147lbs   Very few runners have achieved as much success as Gaston Roelants. For 15 years, from 1960 (4th in the Olympics) to 1974 (3rd in the Europeans), this Belgian athlete was at the very to...

GREAT RACES #23 1975 Dream Mile International Freedom Games Kingston, Jamaica. May 17, 1975   Kingston, the venue for the 1975 Freedom Games, produced a capacity 36,000 crowd to see not only a version of the Dream Mile but also a sprint contest between Steve Williams and Houston McTear. Wh...

Volodalen Training Camp in the 1960s     1948 Olympic gold medalist Henry Eriksson trains on the sand of Lake Nulltjärn. As altitude training became increasingly de rigueur in the late 1960s, serious distance runners began to choose the high mountains for the...