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02/06/2012
Bill Lucas ran the 5000m in the 1948 London Olympics, after spending his years of peak fitness flying bombing raids over Nazi-occupied Europe. Jeremy Vine reads Your News.
Eddie Mair speaks to Bill Lucas, an athlete who won the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service in Bomber Command during the Second World War. Bill had pinned his hopes on a medal in the 1940 Olympics, but the war intervened, and his next opportunity came in London 1948, long after he had passed his best. Your News is read by Jeremy Vine. Share What You Know: ipm@bbc.co.uk.
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