I WAS at the 1948 Olympics and saw the Dutch Fanny Blankers-Koen win her 100m race.
She was considered too old at 30 and as a mother of two children to be capable.
She went on to win the 80m hurdles beating a 20-year-old Briton.
B. BRANSON, Southampton .
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