Sporting Digest: Athletics
ATHLETICS
Josia Thugwane, the Olympic marathon champion, is to compete in Sunday's Bupa Great North Run on Tyneside, honouring a promise he made to organisers two years ago. In 1996 Thugwane pulled out of the race because the pressures on the first black South African to win an Olympic gold medal became so intense he went into hiding.
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