Articles by Bryony Bateson

About Bryony Bateson

Bryony Bateson is the latest to join the National Rust and will be reporting on athletics. A graduate of Loughborough College , she ran for Thames Valley Harriers and was called up for the Team England squad in her discipline of 800 metres. She set up a successful Internet holiday letting business and lives like many of her colleagues on the south coast. Aside from athletics her interests are volleyball, gardening and running on the beach with her dog Merlin. More Posts

Buying a greyhound

The debate on attendance v tv watching continues to rage over the columns of the Rust and I thought I might add my ha’pporth in a new dimension, namely ownership. I suggested to the editor that the Rust might own a sporting animal as funds don’t run to a football club. He thought [...]

February 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Berlin 36

The 1936 Berlin Olympiad is rightly remembered for the feats of Jesse Owens who so embarrassed Hitler that he walked out of the stadium. There was another lesser known story of racial prejudice and confused, indeed contrived gender, recorded in the 2010 film Berlin 36. I saw the film on Netflix [...]

January 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Auction at Christies

Yesterday I attended for the first time an auction which was at Christies for the sale of the shoes in which Roger Bannister ran the first sub 4 minute mile at Iffley Road on May 6th 1954 . I am not that familiar with the sports memorabilia world either so I prepped with Alice Mansfield on [...]

September 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Shoreham Air Disaster

When the editor, Miles Piper of the National Rust called me my initial reaction was he wanted a piece on the Championships in China. I was ready to excoriate Justin Gatlin a convicted drug cheat who has been twice suspended and declare my delight that Usain Bolt beat him. In fact the editor [...]

August 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

The test of time

Firstly let me begin by saying how delighted and honoured I feel to be chosen as the National Rust‘s athletic correspondent. I know Grania from the Thames Valley Harriers and through her met Polly, a keen amateur runner, and then Bob Tickler. At one of his parties I met some of the Rust [...]

August 11, 2015 // 2 Comments