North East Scotland

London 2012: Whatever Happened to the Standing Long Jump?

Simon Welfare | Posted 24.09.2012 | UK
Simon Welfare

In the Olympic Café, just a bacon buttie's throw from Wembley Stadium, enthusiasm for the London Olympics was decidedly muted. But then this was 2002: even the Athens Games were still a couple of years away, and whatever goes for tumbleweed in East London was still blowing through the unregenerated Lower Lea Valley.