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Article: ATHLETICS: WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: Davies lays down law.(Sport)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- September 2, 2003
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Byline: NEIL SILVER
LYNN DAVIES has told Britain's underachieving athletes they must take responsibility for their performances at the World Championships -and challenged them to set the record straight at next summer's Olympic Games in Athens.
UK Athletics, the governing body of the sport, will come under fire after Britain won just two silver and two bronze medals at the ninth World Championships which ended in Paris on Sunday.
However, former Olympic long jump champion Davies, who is the current president of UK Athletics,does not believe his organisation should shoulder all of the blame.
``Accountability lies with the athletes because they take the last ...