On Higher Ground

Black-gloved fists raised aloft, on a sweltering hot night in Mexico City, U.S. athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos propelled themselves into history.

Black-gloved fists raised aloft, on a sweltering hot night in Mexico City, U.S. athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos propelled themselves into history.

Superheroes normally come from out of this world, but at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, the world discovered a new Superman from right here on Earth.

Christian Malcolm has been competing in top level athletics for well over a decade. He won the sprint double at the World Junior Championships in 1988. What keeps him motivated to compete more than ten years later?

Christine Ohuruogu, although a house-hold name, is a bit of an empty canvass to many, even after winning gold for England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, and again, at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, while being Great Britain’s only Olympic gold medallist in athletics in Beijing (not to mention a suspension for missing three out of competition drugs tests in 2006).