Age is no barrier: meet the world's oldest top athletes

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Age is no barrier: meet the world's oldest top athletes
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Richard Godwin catches up with five pensioners, aged up to 108, who thrive on extreme exercise

Edwina Brocklesby: triathlete, 76, Kingston-upon-Thames I didn’t do any exercise at all until I was 50. I remember trying out for the long-jump team at university for a laugh and I couldn’t move for two weeks afterwards. So that was the end of my athletics career. And then I had three children and I was busy with my job. I was a social worker and ran two adoption agencies.

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