E: 21/05 Win tickets to the men’s 400m final,inc hotel(slight effort but random draw)

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thesundaytimes.co.uk

Put these moments in order and enter by email at [EMAIL="sportletters@sunday-times.co.uk"]sportletters@sunday-times.co.uk[/EMAIL]. All entries must have a home address and a daytime telephone number. The competition closes at noon on Tuesday, May 22.

Terms and Conditions
Winners will be selected at random from all correct entries received. There will one winner only for the competition. The competition starts at 9am on Sunday 13 May 2012 and closes at 1.59pm on May 22 lunchtime 2012. One entry per person. Over 18 residents of UK only. The winner will win an overnight stay at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Kensington, London, and a pair of tickets to the men’s 400m final at the Olympic Stadium on Monday, August 6 and a pair of tickets to the men’s springboard diving semi-finals at the Aquatics Centre on Tuesday, August 7. No cash alternative. Draw will take place on 23 May and winners will be notified the same day. Promoter is Times Newspapers Limited. These conditions of entry and use are subject to the London 2012 ticketing Terms and Conditions as set out at the following link: http://www.tickets.london2012.com/purchaseterms.html. The London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) give no guarantee in relation to the London 2012 ticket prize, and cannot be held liable for any injury, loss or damage of any kind arising from a winner’s (and where applicable, guest’s) use of the London 2012 ticket prize.


The top 10 will consist of the following moments:

• Paavo Nurmi, the Finn who dominated the 1924 Games and won a total of nine gold medals over three Olympics
• Al Oerter, the American who won four successive Olympic discus titles
• Emil Zatopek, of Czechoslovakia, winning the 5,000m, 10,000m and marathon in 1952, a treble never done before or since
• Jesse Owens, the American hero of Berlin 1936 who won four gold medals and thus defied the racial theories of the Nazi hosts
• Steve Redgrave’s performance in Sydney 2000 when he completed the unique feat of winning five successive gold medals in an endurance event
• American Carl Lewis winning his fourth successive Olympic long jump title in 1996. In total he won nine gold medals over four Olympics
• Fanny Blankers-Koen, the Dutch heroine of 1948, with four titles
• Michael Phelps, the American swimmer who in Beijing won eight gold medals and brought his total number of titles to a record 14
• Jim Thorpe, American winner of decathlon and pentathlon in 1912. Voted the greatest athlete of first half of 20th century
• Jamaican Usian Bolt with his unprecedented domination of the sprints in Beijing