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England push for victory
It was only three weeks ago this morning that the English cricket team woke up having scraped a draw against the Australians by the very narrowest of margins. Panesar and Anderson had seen out the last eleven overs of a Test in which the hosts were comprehensively outclassed, in which the Australians had [...]
The World Swimming Championships have followed a predictable pattern in Rome this week - after the tumbling records in last year’s Olympics, other companies have brought out bodysuits which are still fasster and more effective than the Speedo LZR - and, completely coincidentally, even more records have been broken, at a quicker rate than ever. [...]
The 2008 Olympics in Beijing began with a bang in the swimming pool, dominated by Michael Phelps winning eight gold medals in an almighty display of not being rubbish. The swimmers were quicker than they had ever been before, and 25 world records were lowered. The reason? Apparently it was all in the suit - [...]
It seems slightly illogical that a photograph of an American athlete smoking a bong at a party in America would first appear in a British tabloid, but perhaps we can ascribe that to the News of the World’s enterprising ability to uncover any evidence of misdeeds whatsoever anywhere in the world. Still, that’s what graced [...]
