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 Tour de France in Yorkshire has got everyone in Britain going crazy for cycling. The nation has fallen in love with bikes in a big way. Standing by the roadside at East Witton on the opening stage of this year’s Tour in Yorkshire is like a surreal dream. I never thought […]
The Tour de France 2013 is entering its final stages as the 170 riders leave the Alps behind and head towards Paris for the grande finale of this year’s race. The 100th Tour has been full of spills, thrills and fewer pills than previous years – with great racing on the […]
This weekend’s Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge was a predictable affair with the sporting action being overshadowed by the bad language of the winning crew’s cox. So I picked a rather different boat race to watch this weekend – the Grandtully Slalom – a premier event on the UK’s […]
This week I was feeling nostalgic so I took a trip down memory lane to London’s theatre land to celebrate British sporting achievement in the early 1920s. Well, it is the year of the Olympics! Chariots of Fire, one of my favourite British period movies, has been adapted […]
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 […]
The Tour de France – what a magnificent British triumph for Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome and Mark Cavendish! Surely, it had to be the best day ever for British cycling in the history of the sport. Better than Boardman, more stunning than Simpson and possibly superior to Beijing’s […]
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