Anyone old enough to remember Bob Beamon.

[splott parker]

I can remember those Olympics so well - David Hemery and John Sherwood in the hurdles, Lillian Board who was dead within two years at just twenty two, Martin Woodruff who is a fellow Old Cantonian (that’s where the similarities begin and end), Chris Finnegan and John Carlos and Lee Evans giving black power salutes on the medal rostrum.

We win far more medals now than we did then though.

If you ever played against Caerphilly YMCA, the changing rooms were upstairs at the club, a short walk down the street to their pitch at Virginia Park. Anyway, on the wall in the club was a huge picture of Lillian Board Another Lillian Board anecdote is that her boyfriend was David Emery, very similar to her fellow Olympian, and after her death he married her twin sister I believe.