Today, over 5,000 competitors from nations as far afield as Malaysia to Jamaica converge on Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games.
Challengers will look to make history in an event that previously saw Tanzania’s Filbert Bayi break a 1,500m record in 1974 that still stands today, launched the career of a seven-time gold medallist weightlifter who would later go on to become President of Nauru, and introduced the world to a then 15-year-old human dolphin called Ian Thorpe.
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