Esteemed running journalist Amby Burfoot offered this when I asked him to write a quote for the autobiography of Filbert Bayi. “Filbert Bayi raced the way we’d all like to: go out fast, force your ...

Suddenly a television commentary from 48 years ago reverberates around the stadium. "The world record has been taken apart." They are the words of BBC television commentator David Coleman, describing ...

After corresponding for many years, this writer was finally able to catch up with Filbert Bayi of Tanzania. At the 1974 Commonwealth Games, Bayi, known for going out into the lead from the start, used ...

Filbert Bayi’s front-running 1500m world record at the 1974 Commonwealth Games not only created history, it revolutionised middle-distance running The 10 other 1500m finalists were on the infield, ...

Half a century ago, Filbert Bayi revolutionized how the middle-distance races were run. During that heyday of athletics competition, before pacers were hired to take the lead, the unheralded Tanzanian ...

Bayi was married to Tanzania Olympic Committee (TOC) secretary general Filbert Bayi, one of Tanzania's two Olympic medallists. He told Tanzanian publication The Guardian that Bayi died on Wednesday ...

THE Tanzanian, who smashed the 1500m world record in 1974, is in Glasgow this week ahead of the 2014 Games but says the hurt at being left out of the Hall of Fame still rankles. THIS Sunday marks the ...