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That's not true. Neither Fatima Whitbread or Paula Radcliffe ever won an Olympic title. Radcliffe never won an Olympic medal of any colour. The year she won SPOTY (2002) she won a Commonwealth Games title, though. It wasn't so much a 'much better' era for athletics - it just had a higher media...

Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Paula Radcliffe, Daley Thompson, Fatima Whitbread amongst others all won it, during the ‘golden era’ of SPOTY you’re reminiscing about. So did John Curry, Torvill and Dean, and Virginia Wade. NOBODY watches domestic athletics, ice skating or tennis in this country -...

Steady there pal. Crodo will be fuming.