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  • Long-distance London Marathon athletes warm-up and apply vaseline to sensitive areas in Greenwich Park.
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  • As a competitor stays warm under a black bin liner in the sun, another runner rubs his calf muscles before the mass start of the London Marathon in Greenwich Park, on 21st April 1991, in London, England.
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  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
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  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-20-28-04-2019.jpg
  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-19-28-04-2019.jpg
  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-17-28-04-2019.jpg
  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-16-28-04-2019.jpg
  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-15-28-04-2019.jpg
  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-14-28-04-2019.jpg
  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-13-28-04-2019.jpg
  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-12-28-04-2019.jpg
  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-11-28-04-2019.jpg
  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-10-28-04-2019.jpg
  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-09-28-04-2019.jpg
  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-08-28-04-2019.jpg
  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-07-28-04-2019.jpg
  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-06-28-04-2019.jpg
  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-05-28-04-2019.jpg
  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-04-28-04-2019.jpg
  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-01-28-04-2019.jpg
  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-02-28-04-2019.jpg
  • A tired long-distance runner wearing a kilt rests after finishing the London Marathon, in St James's Park, on 22nd April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Tired long-distance runners rest after finishing the London Marathon, in St James's Park, on 22nd April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Tired long-distance runners rest after finishing the London Marathon, in St James's Park, on 22nd April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Family sit with a runner who has just finished the London Marathon, in St James's Park, on 22nd April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Family sit with a runner who has just finished the London Marathon, in St James's Park, on 22nd April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Family sit with a runner who has just finished the London Marathon, in St James's Park, on 22nd April 2018, in London, England.
    london_marathon-05-22-04-2018.jpg
  • Family sit with a runner who has just finished the London Marathon, in St James's Park, on 22nd April 2018, in London, England.
    london_marathon-04-22-04-2018.jpg
  • A poster of a couple who have finished running the London Marathon, is held up by a family member in the Mall, on 22nd April 2018, in London, England.
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  • An inflatable balloon held up high for the benefit of a London Marathon runner on the Embankment, on 23rd April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Local London park run volunteers load runners' bags into the lorries in Greenwich Park before the start of the 2019 London Marathon, on 28th April 2019, in London, England
    marathon_volunteers-03-28-04-2019.jpg
  • With face covered and medal around neck, a London Marathon runner collapsed on grass, before being met by family
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  • London Marathon runners wearing fancy dress costumes - including a skinny pink ballerina and a Playboy Bunny, pass through the Canary Wharf development in 1991, on 21st April 1991, in London, England. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the term of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape.
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  • A marathon runner in insulating foil bends over manure left at Horseguards, appearing deceptively to have been at fault.
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  • A few miles from the finish line, this long-distance runner has stopped in agony to lean against the walls beneath Tower Bridge during th London Marathon, England. Pushing against the solid wall and stretching his cramped leg muscles, he grimaces in pain as other runners speed past on their way completing their personal race. Pushed to his limits, this man needs to continue a few more Kilometres to claim his medal and to claim victory. But he still has to overcome the pain of an overworked body. When glycogen runs low, the body must then burn stored fat for energy, which does not burn as readily. When this happens, the runner will experience dramatic fatigue. This is called "hitting the wall".
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  • A long-distance runner prepares for the London Marathon before the race begins, whilst warming-up in Greenwich Park, London England. Seen in close-up detail, we see his hands and fingers massaging Vaseline jelly into his thighs and groin area to help avoid chafing during the annual 26-mile race through London's streets. He is wearing bright, garish running shorts decorated wth the British Union Jack flag, a sure sign of his patriotic attitude. Other runners are in the background, also preparing clothing that will be taken from the start to the finish line in Westminster.
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  • Taking a break from the London Marathon, a young runner dressed as Superman emerges from a Portaloo after a quick toilet stop. Located at the London Fire Brigade's station on Lower Thames Street in City of London in the capital's historic financial district, their empty fire hose snakes across the ground. The young man wears trainers, a red skirt, a Super-hero top with the Superman emblem on his chest and he walks out of the portable convenience adjusting a green frizzy wig. Disgarded mineral water bottles have been thrown on the ground by other passing athletes but this is a theatrical pun, that Superman changes personality, name and powers when leaving a telephone box. Apart from the colour (color) of the toilet, the runner and the hose, the background is drab and overcast.  The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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  • Roadworks on Marathon Avenue. Road works and an Athens Olympic sign on Marathonas Avenue, the ancient Marathon route of 490 BC in an Athens suburb. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past... . ancient, antiquities, archaeology, athens, athletics, baker, cable, capital, ceremony, city, classical, colour, compete, competing, construction, darnening, delay, dirt, EU, europe, european, exercise, famous, game, games, games, gods, Greece, Greek, guard, history, history, hole, landmark, landscape, light, makri, marathon, marathonas, medal, member, mess, mess, nea, news, olympia, Olympic, Olympic rings, olympics, orginal, original, Parthenon, photojournalism, protected, race, racing, reportage, richard, rings, roadworks, route, ruin, ruins, shadows, sky, soil, soldiers, sport, sporting, start, starting, state, summer, tourists, travel, travel, travel, world, wrestling
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  • Abandoned neon pub sign is on the famous Marathonas Avenue near Nea Makri, the original route that the Athenian messenger Pheidippides ran in 490BC. The runner was sent to deliver word of the Greek victory over Persia at the Battle of Marathon. Running 240 km (150 miles) in two days to request help when the Persians landed, he then ran the 40 km (26 miles) from the battlefield Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon with the words 'We have won'. The story inspired the marathon and at the birthplace of modern sports at ancient Olympia, where for 1,000 continuous years, the ancient pagan festival of sport and debauchery were held. The 29th Olympics came home to Greece in 2004. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered even then, as now.
    greek_olympiad008-21-10_2003.jpg
  • Godess statuettes on Marathon Avenue. Cement Godess statuettes on sale in an Athens suberb, Marathonas Avenue - the original Marathon route of 490 BC. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.
    The Home Coming10 RBA.jpg
  • Amcient Marathon route. Dawn at the town of Nea Makri, a coastal town on the original Marathon route of 490BC. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.
    The Home Coming19 RBA.jpg
  • Old bar sign on Marathon Avenue, the original route of the road race. Abandoned neon pub sign on Marathon Avenue at Nea Makri, the original route that Athenian messenger Phheidippides is said to have run in 490 BC. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.
    The Home Coming08 RBA.jpg
  • The last moments of street lighting illuminates the pavement and road as dawn breaks over the shoreline on the untidy and empty seafront in Nea Makri, a coastal town near Athens on the Marathon road. This town is the original route that the Athenian messenger Pheidippides ran in 490BC to deliver news of the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of (Marathonas) Marathon. Nowadays, this is a rather unattractive town with few echoes of Greece's ancient glories although the 29th modern Olympic circus came home in 2004. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
    greek_olympiad009-21-10_2003.jpg
  • Facing a setting sun, the near-exhausted rowers of a small 'jolly boat' has almost completed the long Great River Race by pulling their oars along 22 miles of the River Thames. About to row past the battleship HMS Belfast on the right and under Tower Bridge beyond, the four friends negotiate the choppy waters of the capital's river. The Great River Race (also known as 'London's River Marathon') attracts both the true racer and the leisure rower. The course from Richmond to London docklands was inspired by the immense interest generated by a 1987 charity event in which the famous Doggett's Coat & Badge winners from The Company of Watermen & Lightermen rowed its shallop, or passenger barge, from Hampton Court to The Tower of London.
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  • We are looking up from the ground to crowds gathered in three levels of a multi-story car park to await athletes pass during the London Marathon. The runners will make their way through the streets of East London beneath these spectators who have been patiently waiting for their friends and families to pass below. It is a great viewpoint from which to view such a sporting spectacle and we are peering up at the supporters leaning against the discoloured (discolored) concrete architecture dating back to the 1970s. It is the best elevated place to witness the race. There are three rows of 5 columns totalling 15 seperate windows and each one is full of families young and old. They resemble the compartments of a garden pet hutch where rabbits are kept in cramped conditions.
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  • Wearing a safety helmet and t-shirt , a nine year-old girl cyclist pretends to be asleep, having has collapsed on the grass at Peckham Rye Park in South London after a marathon ride into the centre of London. 'Freewheel' was a Hovis-sponsored event for riders and families to enjoy a day of traffic-free cycling through the capital's streets and this girl has ridden 18 miles on this late-summer Sunday - starting and finishing in this park. The shadow of a rear bicycle wheel can be seen to her right and she feigns death by spreading out on the grass, pretending to sleep before reviving herself with a drink and pedalling on home, yet another mile away.
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  • Garden Olympic reliefs, Rafina. An Olympic discus-thrower relief in a roadside garden items business on Marathonas avenue, Rafina, the original Marathon route of 490 BC. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.
    The Home Coming22 RBA.jpg
  • White plaster or cement Goddess statuettes stand on sale on the forecourt of a garden art business in an Athens suberb, Marathonas Avenue - the original Marathon route of 490 BC. The mostly female figurines are in various poses but are all nudes and are in various gestures of a classical heroic style. Those in the foreground have their arms at the heads and moulded breasts and bodies to show the perfect female form while further to the back are male Gods placed on plinths and in recesses. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery.
    greek_olympiad011-23-10_2003.jpg
  • A 62-page introduction of editorial images by the English photographer Richard Baker. It contains projects and assignments that are biased towards medium format<br />
colour negative film with a selection of 35mm transparency-sourced work found on pages 60/61 with About Me and Contact details on page 62. Subjects include: Olympiad, Journeys in ancient Greece on Marathon Road, Athens, Sacred Precinct of Zeus in ancient Olympia and the Acropolis; Monica Ali's Bangladeshi Brick Lane; Inside the BBC; the rally driver Richard Burns; 100 years of aviation; One week after 9/11; solo images from Ireland, Lithuania, England and Florida. This folio is directed towards picture editors and art directors.
    RichardBaker_editorial_folio.pdf
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