Age is no barrier: meet the world's oldest top athletes

Richard Godwin catches up with five pensioners, aged up to 108, who thrive on extreme exerciseI didn’t do any exercise at all until I was 50. I remember trying out for the long-jump team at university for a laugh and I couldn’t move for two weeks afterwards. So that was the end of my athletics career. And then I had three children and I was busy with my job. I was a social worker and ran two adoption agencies.There are lower rates of diabetes among the active – and if you keep