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Peter Hildreth

Olympian, 80, dressed down for running up escalator: you couldn't make it up!
Posted by simon on 7/30/2008 on simon's blog

I love tbis story about a British Olympian, who on turning 80 decided to see if he could replicate a technique he used when he was training seriously -- by running up the DOWN escalator of a local department store!

Thanks to Ken Stone of MastersTrack.com for alerting me to this story, which was splashed over the UK tabloids...

Ken quotes UPI's report:

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