By David Emery Lillian. A biography of the great Olympic Athlete (First Edition)

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a gambling joint. Dave warned Monica the heavies patrolling the tables were armed. She was spooked. I won sweet FA, Monica was moderately successful, Dave blew a lump of his week’s wage.

British athlete Rebecca Lyne dedicated the bronze medal she won in the 800 m at the 2006 European Athletics Championships to Lillian Board. It is quite an idyllic life it seems, but Hemery has always worked hard for his success and that isn’t going to change. “I competed at a time when we were denied the opportunity to earn through our sport endeavours,” he says matter-of-factly. In 1960, at the age of 11, Lillian and her sister moved to Grange Secondary Modern Girls' School, also in Ealing and now part of The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls. It was here in 1961 that Physical Education teacher Sue Gibson (a Middlesex county discus champion) spotted that Lillian, now aged 12, had a special talent for running. She took her to join London Olympiades, the leading all-female athletics club, which had a training base at Alperton, north-west London. Here she competed in relays and 100 and 150-yard sprints. [3] More than that, though, the hard work he had put in before that achievement was considerable. He was helped by a number of coaches, in particular a man at Boston University, where he was for quite a long time, by the name of Billy Smith. Even after the pacemaker surgery, the Iowa Heart Center couldn’t confirm that Emery-Dreifuss ran in Jill’s family. She had, though, in her reading, come across a group of researchers in Italy who were looking for families with Emery-Dreifuss to study, hoping to locate a gene mutation that causes the disease.

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I learned a huge amount about limits both mental and physical. For ten years after retiring, I missed both the relays and hurdles, believing I could still have run well” The footway from the Munich Olympic Stadium to the subway station was renamed as the Lillian-Board-Weg. It is one of the many rea-sons his staff respected him, but far from the only one. His years on Fleet Street predated many of us, but we knew where he’d been and what he’d done.

Hemery explains: “It is run as a social enterprise, as we pay our special speakers, usually Olympians or Paralympians, to go into schools and to share their inspirational life stories. We ask young people to follow their own dreams, having a plan ‘A’ and a plan ‘B’. The intention is to inspire, engage and empower young people and awaken them to their potential.” Something was “terribly wrong,” as she put it, but she didn’t even bother to tell her parents about it. Other people went to doctors and got solutions. That had never happened for Jill, so she started looking for answers on her own, the way a kid would. She started bringing home books from the library on poltergeists and other supernatural phenomena. “I remember it really freaked out my dad at one point,” she says. “He was like, ‘Well, are you into the occult, or what?’ It was nothing of the sort.” It was just that she couldn’t explain the forces acting on her body. She was fascinated by the stories of people bedeviled by inexplicable maladies or situations. Jill says, “Ya’ know, I believe them.” It is clear that Hemery really enjoys pushing himself – in every walk of life – and undoubtedly this quality is what made

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Locally, he coaches hurdles on weekends, but travels all over the country going into schools or working for his charity. He also enjoys spending time with his family. Both sons – Adrian and Pete – are in their early 30s, with Adrian having inherited his father’s athletics genes and enjoying a stint as a GB international decathlete as a student. He now teaches maths at St Paul’s in London, while Pete works in computing for an engineering firm near Cambridge.By an uncanny twist of fate, the most quantum of jumps in Mexico City happened within 48 hours of ‘The Golden Girl’ designated to become Mrs David Emery receiving the Olympic silver her husbandto-be talked of winning only a few years earlier. Already in place was formidable football story-getter, Steve Curry. And David unhesitatingly appointed respected sub-editor Peter Tozer, whom he had known for years, to be his deputy.

Spring was in the air in Fleet Street in 1987, when David Emery quit as chief sports writer of the Daily Express to become sports editor. Smith was equally positive, accurately predicting: “You’ll run 48.1sec or 48.2 and no one else can do that. The others are 1,000 hills and sand dunes behind you and it is too late to catch up. Your preparation has been perfect. It seems like we’ve been through and over this whole thing 100 times – but we know we’re right. We might be the only two people in the world to know it but it is true.” A talented dressmaker and designer, Board often made her own clothes, including a pink coat she wore to receive the MBE from Queen Elizabeth II in January 1970. In the years after she sent her family’s blood overseas, Jill waited for confirmation that she had Emery-Dreifuss. Sort of. He made Peter Tozer, a trusty lieutenant from the early days, his deputy and launched Charlie Sale on a stratospheric curve by making him news editor. “David could do every journalistic job in the book – writing, subbing, layout, ideas, motivation, the lot,” says Sale.

Lillian Board was born in South Africa, but when she was eight or nine, her family moved to Ealing. By her late teens she was excelling as an athlete at 200m, 400m and 800m. By 1968, aged just 20, she was the best in the world. In addition to her Olympics silver, she won two golds at the European championships the following year. She appeared on Question of Sport in its early days and also Desert Island Discs. She was awarded an MBE in the 1970 New Year’s honours. In the summer of that year, she was training hard at 800m with an eye to Munich 1972. His training for London last year was very different to that which he did for his specialist event at his peak. In the run-up to the 1972 Olympics for the first three months of winter training, he would do 500 press-ups and 500 sit-ups every day, and run a total of five miles in between, divided into 800m intervals between each 50.