Ed Moses: A career and life fit for a film
The double Olympic champion talks about his life on and off the track.
Ed Moses won 122 consecutive races including two Olympic gold medals over a nearly 10-year span in the 400m hurdles, but how did he become unbeatable? Sportshour鈥檚 Caroline Barker speaks to the double Olympic champion about his dominance, his then-revolutionary 13 strides and how an introduction from Morgan Freeman has finally brought his life to the screen.
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Former Australian international swimmer Kurt Herzog shares his life after elite sport and how he鈥檚 working in Indigenous communities to bring neglected public pools back to life.
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Image: American athlete Edwin Moses, wearing sunglasses, clears a hurdle during the men's 400m hurdles event of the 1988 Summer Olympics, at the Seoul Olympic Stadium in Seoul, South Korea, September 1988. Moses won bronze in the men's 400m hurdles at the Games. (Photo by Bongarts/Getty Images)
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