Athlete Gallery

JACKIE ROBINSON (1919-1972). John Roosevelt Robinson, known as Jackie. American baseball player. As a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, stealing home under the tag of catcher Andy Seminick in a game against the Philadelphia Phillies, at Shibe Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 July 1950. The Dodgers batter is Gil Hodges

JACKIE ROBINSON (1919-1972).
John Roosevelt Robinson, known as Jackie. American baseball player. As a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, stealing home under the tag of catcher Andy Seminick in a game against the Philadelphia Phillies, at Shibe Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 July 1950. The Dodgers batter is Gil Hodges

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Eric Liddell celebrating his Olympic win at Edinburgh Univer

Eric Liddell, the 400m gold medallist at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games, crowned and chaired at Edinburgh University where he had studied science. Wearing a wreath of olive leaves, he is carried by fellow graduates on a chair to St. Giles Cathedral where the graduation service was held. Answering the demand for a speech, Mr Liddell said, Over the entrance to the University of Pennsylvania there are these words: In the dust of defeat as well as in the laurel of victory there is glory to be found if one has done his best.'" Eric Liddell (1902 - 1945), was a Scottish athlete, rugby union international and missionary, Olympic gold medal winner in the 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games and subject of the Oscar-winning 1981 film, Chariots of Fire. Date: 1924

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Leg muscles in running, artwork

Leg muscles in running. Artwork showing the muscles in the leg of a runner. There are over 600 muscles in the human body, with at least 14 major muscles in the hip, thigh and lower leg, along with many more smaller muscles. The leg muscles are used in walking and running, producing the movements that raise and lower the legs, and bend the hip and knee joints. They are skeletal muscles, under conscious control and attached to the hip and leg bones by tendons. They are also enclosed in fascia, membranes that divide them into regions called compartments

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