http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Mon, 20 May 2013 22:09:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/06/the-secret-of-east-african-running-success/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/06/the-secret-of-east-african-running-success/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:57:28 +0000 Dr Sean Carey http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27145 Now that the track events at the London Olympics are in full flow the big question for us sporty types is: how come East Africans dominate middle-distance and distance running?]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/06/the-secret-of-east-african-running-success/feed/ 4 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/02/an-alternative-greatest-olympian-of-all-time/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/02/an-alternative-greatest-olympian-of-all-time/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:49:24 +0000 Dr Sean Carey http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27077 You will know that the London Olympics is in full swing because the media is full of stories asking whether Michael Phelps, who has just added a few more medals to his tally bringing it to 19 of which 15 are gold, is the greatest Olympian of all time.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/02/an-alternative-greatest-olympian-of-all-time/feed/ 4