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    Do athletes always run anticlockwise round the track, or are some tracks clockwise?

    Question #126651. Asked by Tigershark79. (Aug 22 12 1:00 PM)


    Lottie1001

    		It seems to have become conventional to run in an anti-clockwise direction since the earlier part of the last century. Before that some tracks were clockwise, including those used for the Olympics in 1896, 1900 and 1904.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19047586

    Aug 22 12, 1:32 PM

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