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EXTRA: why Annette Cowley worried that her room at the athletes' village was being secretly filmed

Despite making the England team, South African-born Annette Cowley wasn't allowed to compete at the 1986 Commonwealth Games. Here she talks about what it was like to get caught up in the politics of the time and the ensuing 'media circus'.

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