Beijing Hotshots

The ‘players to watch at the Olympics’ XI

Feast your eyes on some football players in China

Alexandre Pato

Perhaps one day someone will start a sentence with “there’s an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman” without it being a joke about people in boxes saying “potatoes” – it could even be used to introduce a [...]

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Biblical Runner

Olympic Flashback: Ed Moses

And so, a legend was born…

For those too young to remember 1976, the summer was hot as hell. One man cooler than the Fonze, however, was Edwin Moses from the USA, who chose to wear fashionable shades when thundering his [...]

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Daddy Cool

Olympic Flashback: Daley Thompson, 1984

Man proves he’s not just a hairy face…

For everything that was amazing about Daley Thompson – his athletic prowess, his fantastic computer game, his moustache – he could never quite master celebrating appropriately. Gazza gave us the tears, Beckham made standing Christ-like [...]

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