‘Orwell’s dreaded year has come and gone’ reported the Observer Magazine as it looked back at the ‘shocking year’ of 1984, with the famine in Africa, the IRA’s attempt to wipe out the British government at the Brighton hotel bombing and the ‘civil unrest’ during the miners’ strike.
There was Torvill and Dean’s unparalleled winter Olympic gold and Daley Thompson’s gold in the decathlon in the Los Angeles Olympics. But one athlete who will want to forget that year is Mary Decker, whose agonised grimace is captured ‘as the 3,000m Olympic gold passed her by’ after she collided with Zola Budd.
