‘THE GHOST RUNNER’– The story of John Tarrant by BILL JONES Short listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. ‘The Tragedy of the Man They Couldn’t Stop’ ‘The mystery man threw off his disguise and started to run. Furious stewards gave chase. The crowd roared. A legend was born. Soon the world would know him as ‘the ghost runner’. The story of a remarkable athlete - John had been banned for life from races, because he accepted £17 expenses as a teenage boxer in the 1950’s. John’s amateur status had been compromised, so he then started gate crashing races all over Britain. No number on his shirt and with no friends in high places….he would soon become a record breaker and one of the greatest long distance runners in the world’.
