Do you know where the first modern Olympics were held? If you guessed Athens, Paris, St Louis or London, you’d be wrong. The answer – unbelievably – is a small town in England called Much Wenlock in rural Shropshire. Much Wenlock’s Olympian Games first took place in 1850, almost 50 years before […]
The London Olympics – I’m loving the sporting action from the 2012 Games. This Saturday I spent eight solid hours watching the TV coverage whilst sitting on my sofa. I have become the most appalling couch potato. During my mammoth TV viewing stint I ate three lemon and orange […]
The Olympics are coming to Newcastle – strange but true! Newcastle is one of only five places outside London where you’ll be able to see the Olympic football – the others being Cardiff, Manchester, Coventry and Glasgow. It’s also just one of nine places outside London where you watch any kind of […]
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