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Hello and welcome to this week's world of the great and unusual news stories...

Coe and Ovett the Film!

Move over Rocky 1 – 5, we might have the ultimate sports film ever. It has been announced that a ‘Seb Coe v.s Steve Ovett’ will be made by the BBC in the coming year.  It will be based on Pat Butcher’s book ‘The Perfect Distance’  and will hit our screens before the London 2012 games. Coe and Ovett ran in the Moscow and LA Olympics; they dominated world athletics for several years and had very contrasting personalities. The film’s producer Vicky Licorish said “You were either an Ovett person or a Coe person and that’s what makes it such a great character piece as well.” Read more here

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Look at my new Poll on the left and let me know who you were! This has left me wandering who would play Coe and who would play Ovett? We have just had a big debate in the office and we think you can’t any better than Kevin Bacon (even though I think Gary Sinise is a much better lookalike) playing Steve Ovett and Tom Cruise playing Seb Coe!

The only problem with this is that they are both too old to play the roles nowadays... We could not find one lookalike for Steve Cram... Help us!

Who would win in a high jump. A high jumper or a BMX? You decide!

At an indoor meet in Birmingham on 20th February the high jump competition will have a slight twist. They will be competing against BMX rider’s and inline skater’s producing different extreme jumps in an attempt to win the judges over: the crowd! I’m all for trying new things in this sport so I am actually excited to see how this turns out! The event will feature on the BBC for UK viewers on Saturday 20^th February.

Read more here

Marathon runners raise HALF A BILLION pounds for charity

The Virgin London Marathon celebrating it’s 30^th birthday this year announced they have raised over 500milion pounds for charity. Runners in last year’s race raised a massive £47.2 million for charitable causes, confirming the London Marathon as the largest annual one-day fundraising event in the world. With a similar total expected from this year’s 36,000 runners, the total raised over 30 years since the first race in 1981 will reach more than £500 million!

 Read more here.

For those that are running a marathon or road race for charity this year I thought I would highlight an article we have on the site with Tip’s for raising money!

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I will see you on Friday with blog about getting running injuries treated! Bye for now!