No current British or Irish athletics competitor - that is, a cyclist, track and field athlete or swimmer - made the top 100 in the year of the London Olympics.
Kuske actually started his sporting life as a track and field athlete of some note, claiming a bronze in Germany's 4x100m relay squad at the 1998 world junior championships in Annecy in France.
He will not only go on the field as a great athlete, but as a new role model for many of us who have failed and thought that a comeback was almost impossible.
The most enticing option is the head-to-head proposition, which pits two athletes in direct competition or puts a single athlete up against the field.
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Gillings left the field trailing as she was the only athlete to negotiate the first jump without slowing her speed, this placed her in a commanding position for the rest of the course where she quickly wrapped up the victory.
The Johannesburg-born athlete is joined in the South Africa track and field team by Caster Semanya.
Bryan Clay, 28, showed his mastery during the two-day, 10-event classic of track-and-field athleticism, earning the unofficial title of best all-around athlete on the planet.
Iwan Thomas, Jamie Baulch and local athlete Jared Deacon are the other British athletes in the 400m field.
"At the core, the idea is to allow every athlete to be the best he can be, on and off the field, " Osur says.
Always a gifted, natural athlete, Bonds was also the perfect five-tool ballplayer: He could run, field, throw, hit for average and belt the ball a mile.
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