Best yet to come; IN BRIEF.ATHLETICS: Former Olympic 100 metres relay champion Mark Lewis-Francis Mark Lewis-Francis (born September 4, 1982 in Darlaston) is an English sprint athlete. He is an Olympic gold medallist, having been part of the 4x100m relay team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. is adamant his best years are still ahead of him - and insists he never even contemplated retirement when his lottery funding was withdrawn by UK Athletics UK Athletics is the governing body for the sport of athletics in the United Kingdom. UK Athletics was founded in 1999 as a successor to the British Athletics Federation, which had collapsed for financial reasons. . The 27-year-old, a member of Great Britain's gold medal-winning quartet in Athens in 2004, saw his funding taken away last month. But Lewis-Francis said: "The years I was injured were my worst years of performance. Before the operation I was performing and I was doing all right, I was running decent times. And I do believe I've still got that in my legs." |
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