Year-old athletics all-rounder, Audrey Bennett in training on the deck of the SS Otranto at Tilbury before leaving for Adelaide, Australia. Bennett...
Backstroke swimmers J Slane and C Stephens of Great Britain, at the Holborn Baths in London, training for the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
These four fair athletes of the Los Angeles, California Athletic Club, shown here, prove how easy it is to hurdle the 1932 barrier. The figures also...
Olympic Games, Amsterdam, Holland, Canada's Percy Williams receives a massage from trainer Bob Grainger
American speed skaters chosen for Olympics. Left to right: "Duke" Donovan, of St. Paul, Minnesota; Harry Kaskey, of Chicago; Joe Moore, of New York;...
Soviet gymnast Sergey Diomidov pictured training on a set of parallel bars in 1968. Diomidov would go on to represent The Soviet Union in the...
Valerie Webster of Great Britain in action during long-jump training at Motspur Park for the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
Maureen Gardner, Britain's leading female hurdler in training for the London Olympics at the University track in Oxford. Original Publication:...
Jim Thorpe, Carlisle football ace, Olympic Games hero, and once the world's greatest athlete, goes into training at his home in Inglewood,...
Indian footballers training barefoot at the Olympic training centre at Uxbridge, Middlesex, during the London Olympics, August 1948.
Joe Moore, world champion amateur indoor skater, trains for international competition, Lake Placid, New York, late 1910s or early 1920s. Moore...
Charles Bacon of the USA, winner of the gold medal for the 400 metre hurdles at the 1908 London Olympics, in training.