Goosestepping in Pudding Mill
Athletes are a shambolic lot, they can't walk in a straight line, they wander around, waste time and generally dawdle instead of getting on with the parade! I have to say this wasn't how I viewed...
View ArticlePudding Mill Stadium Saboteurchitect!
The Pudding Mill White Elephant just won't lie down. It now transpires that the anonymous complainant to the EU Commission was Steve Lawrence, the man commissioned by Stratford Development Partnership...
View ArticleUS Paralympic swimmers to use London Fields Lido
Earlier reports of the closure of the London Fields Lido seem to have been exaggerated. According to Hackney an agreement was signed to allow the American Paralympic swimming team to use the pool 'for...
View ArticleSporting myths, winning and national pride
Forget about the importance of taking part. Rory McIlroy is in an uncomfortable position, on the horns of a dilemma. Should he play golf at Rio 2016 for the UK, apparently his preference, or Ireland?...
View ArticleHeroes or scroungers?
‘I think the Vitality programme is absolutely brilliant – everything I stand for is echoed in the values of Vitality.’ These are the inane words of Olympic heroine Jessica Ennis, now earning a fast...
View ArticleSome Shortcomings of Olympic success
In a house in the London suburb of Ealing, hired for the occasion by a film company, an actor playing the part of an average guy, is checking in a mirror how he looks in his recently bought shirt. Out...
View ArticleAnother fine Olympic Legacy - Justice for Bolt!
Usain Bolt is to get £500,000 for appearing at this summer's Olympics Anniversary event. Up till now Bolt has been the victim of 'punitive' tax laws which have prevented him earning these absurd sums...
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They didn't blame it on the snowboarder
Norwegian snowboarding medal hope Torstein Horgmo has been ruled out of Sochi2014 after breaking his collar bone in an accident on the slopestyle course.read more
View ArticleBrits in Controversy at Sochi2014
At least some people know what really matters. Amidst all the controversy over LGBT rightread more
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