Marilyn to make Canadian movie Marilyn Bell is going fp make a RNG ot) The now-famous young long istance sw schooling. Here she is shown with Gus Ryder (left), her coach, Len her crippled pupils at Lakeshore Swimming Club. bu* it will be made in Canada, not the United States. ejected a Hollywood contract in order to continue her Petersen, film writer, and one of ‘Record-breaking limit — not reached’ says Czech By EMIL ZATOPEK There are two main reasons for the outburst of record-breaking this year. One is that athletes today are training harder than ever before. - The other is that the record- breakers happen to be athletes with the right temperament, ath letes who have been convinced that they have it in them to break records. I, personally, have felt that I could beat certain records, And I have gone out and beaten them. Mark you, I’ve also done the train- ing that today is essential if any one is to break world records. »Bannister, Landy, Kuts and Chataway have all been convinced in themselves that they could beat the records they have broken. But equally important, they have “HUB HUMOR i AG Pr we iri a YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE WORN THAT HAT INTHIS COUNTRY, MAAM/ You can believe our story about our FREE CREDIT because it’s true and hundreds of our custom- ers. have profited by it. Just pick out what you need for winier, a suit, topcoat and fur- nishings, and make your own credit terms with FREE CREDIT. 45 EAST HASTINGS all put many miles of training be- hind them before putting their views to the test. at was personally delighted that Chris Chataway broke the world’s record for the 5,000 metres, because I felt that he was unlucky when he fell in the last 100 yards against me in the Olympic 5,000 metres final in Helsinki two years ago. : * i ae was also unlucky in sticking to me instead of following Kuts in the final of the European 5,000 metres championship in Berne — although, let me point out, Kuts is a very great runner indeed. (A week after the Chataway-Kuts race in London, the Russian set a new world record in Vienna.) You mav not know that Kuts is the first finished product of a new Soviet three-year plan to produc- ing first class athletes. It was an experiment, and it has worked. The Soviet coaches take three years to build up an athlete for racing. Then they produce run- ners like Vladimir Kuts and, mark my words, they will produce many more great runners by the time the next Olympic Games are held in Melbourne, Australia. Like me, the Soviet runners do long distances daily in training. But their speed work is different. They set a high target for 5,000 metres. at the end of the three- year training period, and they puild up by running one kilo- metre in the first year to this schedule, two and three kilometres the next, and the full distance in the last of the three years. I don’t think that any of us | modern record-breakers are more if’ physically than the record- See on have gone before us. The main factor is that we have done the training. We have trained much .more thoroughly, at much greater speed and in a different way from that of the old timers. ane ver since I began to find my fel in athletics I have contended that you can’t produce the speeds in racing. if you don’t do it in training. All this year’s record-breakers have held the same view and have trained on this principle. This doesn’t mean that we smash world records in private before we do it in public. But it does mean that in train- ing we so accustom ourselves to the pace of record running that we are able to reproduce it in public without putting harmful strain upon ourselves. I feel reasonably certain that my way of training has been a step forward. It is as simple as pos- sible. I run a lap at racing pace, half a lap easy—you might say, to get my breath back—another lap fast. And I keep that going for a couple of hours, sometimes more. The first lap gets me accustomed to racing speed, the slow half lap enables me to recover the energy I have expended in the course of the fast lap. And this form of training I con- sider to be the most important thing in athletics because it trains the body to recover rapidly from the effect of great exertion. _ How much longer can this re- cord breaking go on? That’s a very difficult question to answer. But I’m willing to guess that Landy’s 1,500 metres and mile times will not be beaten next year, and that Chataway has just about reached the limit possible under present day training methods for 5,000 metres. So far as I am concerned I give both Chataway and Kuts best at 5,000 metres. I’m too old now to try to catch up on the speeds needed to chase these two. — : But at 10,000 metres I feel that my best time should have been round 28 minutes 50 seconds. I would say that the limits of record-breaking have not been reached, though there must come a time when human speed, endur- ance, strength and agility have reached the limit of development. But we are still a long way short of the limit in scientific knowledge and. in the develop- ments of methods of training to get the best out of man. These together, I think, will pro- duce new records for a long time to come. / Gert Whyte's SPORTLIGHT [Bert Whyte is in the Interior this week on an assignment and in his absence we give these sidelights of the Soviet Spartak soccer team’s visit to Britain as reported by Leon Griffiths of the London Daily Worker.] : state Moscow club won its first game of the tour by beating Arsenal 2-1 in a hard-fought con- test but has been beaten 4-0 by the Wolverhampton Wanderers in the most stunning upset of the season in international competi- tion. Says Griffiths, who has been following the Spartaks through- out their visit: Pardon my perspiration — but I've just been sweating it out with 18 husky young members of the crack Soviet football club, Moscow Spartak. After an all-smiles welcome from Arsenal officials at London - airport, the Russians made just one request: “We want a Russian bath.” So they left the plush Park Lane Hotel in Piccadilly where Arsenal installed them, for: a dollar-a-head Russian’ bath in Jermyn Street. Vassili Sokolov, 42-year-old’ sen- ior trainer of the team, explain- ed that the bath would be stage one of the Spartak’s preparation for the game against Arsenal. “And we don’t want it just to get clean,” he added with a smile. “What we want most of all is the massage after the bath.” So I sweated it out with them. First in the steam-room, where the Spartak boys clambered on to tiled seats, where the steam was hottest. “Can’t you make it any hotter?” they asked the at- tendants. Then we had a lukewarm show- er followed by some concentrated baking in the dry-heat rooms. The Russians thought the Radi- atus room, where you could over- do a steak in 10 seconds simply by putting it on the floor, was fine. I cooled off under a shower. x The came the rigorous massage. One of the Russians didn’t think Howard the masseur was doing things energetically enough. So the masseur lay. on the slab while the Russian demon- strated the Spartak style of mas- sage. ‘By the time he’d finished with me I could hardly stand; never mind do any more work,” said Howard. Referee Nikolai Latyshed, who ‘is undoubtedly the joker of the party, was playfully turning an ice-cold hose on the team’s 210- pound doctor when I decided that there was a limit to what reporters should endure in the course of their duty. * oe Later, Griffiths took a differ- ent kind of entertainment with his Russian friends: A greyhound called Fiery Ivan let Moscow Spartak centre-for- ward Nikita Simonyan and me down badly last. night. At their very special request the Soviet footballers were pay- ing the first visit to the dogs. The sat down for a five-course dinner in the restaurant at Clap- ton Stadium as guests of the di- rectors, and watched completely © enthralled as the greyhounds dashed after the electric hare. With little or no English money bets were out. But in the fifth race Fiery Ivan seemed too good a chance to miss with the Spar- tak boys present. So I laid out a bet for Nikita and myself. But our Ivan was anything but fiery. He got off to a bad start, made up a lot of -ground with a loping stride round the second bend, but ambled past the post in fourth position. : From the Spartak boys came a smile and a shrug as though this - sort of thing had happened be- fore. Their interpreter explained that although there was no dog rac- ing in the Soviet Union most of the team liked to have a flutter at the Moscow horse-racing and trotting tracks. 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