Berwyn paid price for putting family first

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Berwyn Jones used to run like the wind, so much so that not even the so-called fastest man on Earth, Bob Hayes, could catch him. At London’s White City in the summer of 1963, the Welshman famously held off the unbeaten America on the last leg of Britain’s world record-breaking sprint relay win over the US.
The victory, rounded off by one Jones with the help of two more, Ron and David, and Peter Radford, sprang out of the history books in Cardiff the other night with Berwyn’s posthumous induction into the Welsh athletics’ Hall...

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