Packer travelled to Tokyo in 1964 where she shared a room with long jump gold medallist Mary Rand. Packer was hoping to win her favourite event, the 400 metres, but was beaten into second place by Betty Cuthbert of Australia, despite setting a new European record (52.2sec). After winning a silver medal in the 400 metres Packer had no plans to run in the 800 metres and had a shopping trip planned until her fiancé, Robbie Brightwell finished fourth in the 400 metres. Disappointed for him, she turned to the 800 metres, an event which she had only raced in five times before, and never in international competition. She had only taken up the longer race to improve her stamina, and earned the third British spot at the length at the last minute.
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“The Children’s Crusade” by AnnPacker (Scribner, 432 pages, $16, paperback) Often, families whose lives appear to be idyllic harbor turmoil on the inside. This is not a new vein ... ....
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As a result, women were only allowed to compete in the 800 meters at one Olympic Games before 1960... The third women’s Olympic 800-meter event yielded another world record, in 1964, as Great Britain’sAnnPacker captured the Tokyo gold medal in 2.01.1. Packer was probably the least likely record-breaker in the history of the women’s event. A 400-meter runner, Packer had mainly used the 800 to help train for the 400 ... Read more.....
I also enjoyed Anne Enright’s The GreenRoad (Jonathan Cape) for the dialogue, the clever narrative structure, and the gnarled, contemporary sense of family values ...Anne Enright ... Another fine novel about families, and the madness they bring with them, was AnnPacker’s absorbing, underrated third novel, The Children’s Crusade (Scribner)....
Her progress was astonishingly rapid, and her dramatic development was maintained during 1967 when in the USA v Commonwealth match in Los Angeles she - the slowest on paper - defeated a glittering 400m field in 52.8 for second on the European all-time list behind AnnPacker... Still aged 19, she had run 52.12 to break AnnPacker's UK record, gained ......
By EmmaVolk . Off the Shelf. I grew up surrounded by books -- and even more memorably, by the sound of books. I did my math homework while playing Harry Potter audiobooks, fell asleep to the sound of my mother reading aloud, and listened to countless mystery novels on tape during family road trips ... What I KnowFor Sure by Oprah Winfrey. When Oprah speaks, you listen ... ... The Children's Crusade by AnnPacker ... Narrated by Anne Twomey ... ....