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By David Emery Lillian. A biography of the great Olympic Athlete (First Edition)

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a b Rachel Cutler, 'Board, Lillian Barbara (1948–1970)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2010 Retrieved 13 December 2011 New deputy lieutenants include TV archaeologist and Wiltshire College chairman". Salisbury Journal. 3 October 2016 . Retrieved 30 August 2022. David wanted us to have a serialisation in place to be published before Wimbledon in 1991 – and I suggested a young American with a toupee and a lousy wardrobe, who had previously chosen to miss Wimbledon because he disliked the all-white dress code. How Hemery, the man with the sixth fastest personal best among the eight finalists, came to be on top of the podium, also owed a debt to a visit to Bermuda and to a happy transatlantic accordance, this one between two extraordinary and complementary coaches who, though they were based more than 3,000 miles apart and who were to meet only once – on the eve of the 1972 Games – moulded a champion and one of the greatest performances in Olympic history.

He convinced me that journalism might not make me a millionaire but that sometimes you could live like one,’’ says Bob. “Emers had style. You never wanted to let him down.’’ I refer to it as ‘the coaching dance’, as both asking and telling is needed. It has been my passion ever since, to have parents, teachers, coaches and managers recognise the benefits and need for adopting this balanced style,” reveals Hemery. The defining moment in his life came when he was 12 in 1957 and his father was offered a job in Colorado Springs. The Hemery children were consulted about the move and, after deciding to go, stayed there for six months before his father accepted another position in Boston. The four children – Judy, David, John and Anthea – were enrolled at Thayer Academy in Braintree, Massachusetts and the boys excelled in sport, David becoming an accomplished miler, half-miler and prolific centre-forward in the soccer team. And not just won, but thrashed the field in 48.12sec, to take the world record by eight-tenths of a second. “I believe,” wrote the Times’s correspondent Neil Allen the next day, “this was the outstanding British athletics performance of all time.”Aside from his sand dune winter training sessions, Hemery recalls one other particular ‘killer’ training session, which he would do a few weeks before a big race. It consisted of a 500 yards over 12 hurdles. What made it so hard was as much the psychological as physical element.

As the Melbourne 1956 steeplechase gold medallist turned journalist Chris Brasher put it, "It was Hemery first, the rest nowhere." Coleman, commentating, got the second runner, West Germany's Gerhard Hennige, but he couldn't remember who was third.In the years after she sent her family’s blood overseas, Jill waited for confirmation that she had Emery-Dreifuss. Sort of.

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