Entries Tagged as 'Sports and Leisure'
Ooh, How Novel
Today That Would Barely Cover the Childishly Absurd Logo
The Times - Just the Sports, Please The Olympic movement must slim down if it is to thrive
They are the greatest show on Earth. But they are played out on such a scale that it is pointless to pretend, as the Beijing Organising Committee continues to do, that they are not political. If the […]
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A Whiter Shade of Perl
The Times - Silly kit off Bring back the old cricket sweater and whites
It was once the case that everything in the world was subject to change, except cricket. No more. The new Indian Premier League promises to bring all the subtlety associated with American football to this once venerated sport, while the appeal […]
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That’s Pretty Much What I’ve Been Thinking Too
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Chinese Capitalists
The Times - Olympic ideals? What nonsense The Games are not full of comradely spirit. They are the most cut-throat event you can imagine, by Matthew Syed
Is there, in the history of human literature, a document more spuriously idealistic, more breathtakingly drunk on its own self-importance, than the Olympic Charter? It is all “preservation […]
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What Was That Slogan?
“Journey of Harmony” or something? Then there’s “Light the Passion, Share the Dream”. Interesting:
The Times - Unmasked: Chinese guardians of Olympic torch
China’s blue-clad flame attendants, whose aggressive methods of safeguarding the Olympic torch have provoked international outcry, are paramilitary police from a force spun off from the country’s army. The […]
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Sports Ethics
Telegraph - How come only sport must have a conscience? By Jim White
On Radio Five Live’s breakfast news programme yesterday morning, the presenter Matt Smith was interviewing a 16-year-old runner who was due to take part in the Olympic torch relay through the streets of London. “So,” he said, “have […]
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And a Moment For the Two of You to Geek Out/Grieve
Times Online - Shane Warne retires from first-class cricket
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Ruining My Beijing Fun
The Times - A Beijing boycott won’t work I resisted the pleas to boycott the Moscow Olympics in 1980. The same arguments apply today, by Colin Moynihan
The case at the time was clear to my team-mates and me. Despite the horrors of the Soviet invasion, it was wrong for the Government to ask sportsmen […]
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And the View From the Sports Desk
The Times - Right now all the torch represents is China – the sport comes later, by Simon Barnes, Chief Sports Writer
At the Olympic Games, bullshit and beauty walk hand in hand. The event totters under the weight of portentous symbols; pious talk of world peace and universal love never ceases; politicians and […]
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The Defiant Hair Brigade Reforms
Times Online - Controversial Darrell Hair reinstated as Test umpire
Darrell Hair has been reinstated as a Test cricket umpire after the International Cricket Council (ICC) decided the controversial Australian had spent enough time out of the spotlight. Hair has not officiated in a major match since the infamous Oval Test […]
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The Magic Kingdom Falling On Its Face
The Telegraph - [CENSORED]’s losing game over [CENSORED] Olympics
[CENSORED] is increasingly finding that the Olympic Games are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they will celebrate the country’s astonishing economic transformation and, no doubt, the prowess of its athletes. On the other, they are drawing attention to its repressive political system and […]
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Plague Rats For a Better Olympic Games
The Times - Cats are out as Beijing starts to preen itself
Animal welfare activists in Beijing are up in arms over a decision by the city government to clear the capital of its stray cats as part of a sweeping Olympic facelift. No one knows exactly how many homeless cats […]
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Ski Revelstoke!
Yay lookit what I found!
Telegraph - Revelstoke Mountain: the world’s best skiing?
In what I consider to be the most exciting development in snow business on either side of the Atlantic over the past 20 years, Canada’s new, billion-dollar Revelstoke Mountain Resort - RMR - is poised to become one of the world’s most […]
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My Kind of Sportsman
Daily Telegraph - Seasick chain-smoker rows Atlantic
AN overweight chain-smoking aquaphobic has beaten an infection and the competition to be the first solo Australian to row across the Atlantic - a 76-day journey across 5500km of open seas. Pete Collett, 32, arrived at in the West Indies on Saturday night, after […]
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