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What did this lame brain think the result of his “scoop” would be? Did he think investors would not scamper down to draw their money out? This fool caused the run on the bank for no other reason than to smugly bask in the glory of his “scoop”. I hope those that lost their jobs thanked him.

Robbed in 1984 by US dopers ....

She was the most brilliantly gifted athlete. Such a terrible shame that her career was blighted by these evil cheats

Loved her as a kid and she remains one of my all time favourite sports people.A great career that would've been greater if not for constantly running against cheats.

She was robbed of gold medals by the drug cheats --a women competing against men!

Many of the comments here are stating that Kathy was a clean athlete, beaten by dopers. We now know (for example) that the East Germans were doping. However, doping testing was basically useless back then, so we have almost no idea which western athletes were clean.

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A lady with real class, unlike Marita Koch and Jarmila Kratochvilova who still deny there were drugs cheats. Not satisfied with stealing medals from people like Kathy, they still havent got the integrity to own up, even when everyone knows now what they did.

This footage is a wonderful trip '...down memory lane'. To me Kathy was, and remains, the greatest GB sprinter/400 metres athlete. The fluidity and cadence of her running style was awe inspiring....and always made me smile....smooth...easy (looking)....'How does she do that?' We should spend a lot more time looking at the past GB greats.....so many of their best times/distances/heights were achieved, by todays standards, in dire conditions. Today, in the UK rankings Kathy still rates ( from circa 1984) 2nd 200 metres....2nd-400 metres....6th...100metres...What!!!!!? Brilliant stuff. Good interview Steve.

I loved watching Kathy run when I was a kid. Was such an inspiration to all & she gave her all in every single race. Loved this look back at her achievements. Very humble & a lovely woman.

I have watched this so many times , Kathy was not only cheated beyond belief , but is the most fantastic person , incredible ! Why don't British Athletics award her a lifetime achievement award , to acknowledge , her talent !

Terrific sprinter and woman with a very impressive track career tally, just very sad that she and Shirley Strong were robbed by the USA and Eastern block roider gurus of the Golds that they both deserved.

She is incredible to run that fast and not have any real muscle mass.

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Kathy's true greatness was only fully acknowledged years after her retirement. What a talent.

Great Athlete Great Person !

She was so unlucky to have to run against so many Russian and Eastern European cheats. Wockel should have her medals taken away.

British and Global legend, one of the most gifted athletes of all time, and everyone knows why the golds were not there, but as Kathy pointed out.....sponsorship etc.....she was robbed and still shows dignity in reflection. A steely athlete from the golden age of athletics, when athletics mattered....an absolute master of the sprints

A beautiful, virtuous and clean athlete and person. She was robbed blind! Her time still would’ve won in 2012? Pretty much a novice at 400 as well... she ran 100 & 200! That tells you she was truly world class - she should’ve dominated her generation... she would’ve had the others been clean!

Acting like british athletes were clean no they were not

What a beautiful lady makes me cry this video how humble she is when she knows she was fuckin robbed of gold medals. What a girl kathy is

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Top athlete, a credit to our nation...... deserves all the praise.....

It must be good for her to say that she knocked off Florence Griffith for 3rd in the 1983 200m at Helsinki..She was clean Kathy Cook

I can't believe she had to do a real job when she stopped running. Even then with her talent and good looks she shoulda been minted for doing adverts.

my 2 favourite women athletes were kathy cook & lillian board; lillian was deprived of more gold medals by cancer - kathy was deprived of any gold medals by drug cheats.

I assume the two dislikes are from Koch and Kratochvilova? Kathy was the best sprinter in the world in the era when cheats prospered instead of her. All the world records pre WADA should be nullified, without prejudice, for athletics to get back to what is once was.

The most robbed athlete in modern times, she would have had a lot more reward for her talents not just in terms of medals had it not been for the drugs both of the eastern bloc ladies but also from elsewhere in the world (cough USA, cough Jamaica). I'm really happy that she isn't bitter about it and the school she's worked at gained an absolute track legend.

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Kathy was as great an athlete for GB as Coe Ovett and Cram . In a clean sport she would have as successful as all 3. I would go as far as giving Kathy a dame hood

Kathy would have Won far more medals... if the eastern block hadn’t been doping their women into virtual men!! She deserved better!!

Thank you for sharing this lovely clip. Deep respect for Cathy Cook. Much love all the way from India...Roby

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What a stink mouth jackass the man is...

Even when Merry won bronze at Sydney, she was not as fast as Kathy.

84, the gold should have been hers.

One of the most cheated athletes -felt incredibly sorry for her

British sprinting phenom!

What a wonderful athlete and woman Kathy was and is. She was definitely robbed of glory and that is tragic. But it's great to see how life is greater than that smaller period of time when those things happened; she's still proving she's a winner.

but in the commonwealth games.. did she win any gold.. no eastern bloc countries are there.

IAAF should right these wrongs, it's disgusting how the clean athletes were not just punished by not winning/getting even a medal but had opportunities stolen away from them that modern athletes get so easily, most of them couldn't touch Kathy for her talent.

Kathy Smallwood/Cook was a fantastic athlete & obviously a beautiful person too.. My favourite female British athlete of all time, all day long!

Don't know anyone who didn't adore Kathy for the way she used to go about things with humour and dignity, and the passage of time shows that she was even better than we realised. Someone you'd always want on your side.

Kathy Cook champion !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my brother at school used to rave about kathy smallwood ............ pity those cheats got away with it but at least shes not bitter.

I remember her from back when she was Kathy Smallwood - she was pretty much the top GB women's athlete for several years and did so well for her country. Great to see how modest she is and accepting of the situation - morally, she's a champion. :-)

...my favourite athlete when I was growing up...I found out she worked at TSB so wrote to as many of their Birmingham branches as I could...paid off as I got a nice letter & signed photo back...

Campbell is an Amoral cunt. It's his type of politics which has destroyed the Labour Party

Delighted when Chrissy O won that final in Moscow and broke the record. Records are supposed to be broken 🇬🇧