Andre Greipel’s pro-cycling career prior to the 2015 Tour de France looked in danger of tailing off...
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If it happened to Roy, it can happen to Floyd
For all his odious self-aggrandisement, his ostensible ducking of credible foes and history of...
Ryan Giggs: 22 years of pure footballing genius.
Testament to his longevity, the name Ryan Giggs will conjure up contrasting imagery for contrasting...
The FC Barcelona Dynasty: Football as a game of aesthetics
A person’s creativity is known to ebb and flow like the tide.
The Horse’s Mouth: The Rise and Fall of Lance Armstrong
Everything about the scene seemed a little ashen.
Dave Brailsford: The man who put the wheels in motion
In this year of all years, the BBC’s Sports Personality evolved into a microcosm of the glut of...
Ricky Hatton: The boxing legend finally retires…
Boxers can be the most delusional of folk when it comes to believing their own blustering mythology.
China’s aggressive sporting policy for children
With jetlag still besieging my tired eyes and woozy mind, the Grandmother of the family ushers me...
Precious Discards: Erasing Cycling’s Lance Armstrong
It is 2003, and against the backdrop of the vertiginous gradients of the climb at Luz-Ardidnen...
Adams’ Blitz Heralds Dawning for Women’s Boxing
“Women are not made to be hit in the breast and face like that” was Muhummad Ali’s myopic view on...
The Vultures are Circling; Lance: Hero or Hoax?
There is now no means of absolution.
The Monaco Grand Prix: One of the Finer Things in Life
Encased by the striking verdancy of the Mediterranean hills and with the crystal water of the...
Britain and Boxing Besmirched in Munich Brawl
In a sport where a celebrated icon known as Ali dubbed his African-American adversary a gorilla; a...
Why the black dog ravages our sporting heroes
Ricky Hatton, Marcus Trescothick, Jonny Wilkinson, Frank Bruno, Kelly Holmes, Mike Tyson: the list...
Formula One 2011 – A spectacular season reviewed
After eighteen races of searing asphalt, burnt rubber and daring manoeuvres scattered over five...
Joe Frazier RIP and Ali – The men who made boxing
In the 1970’s boxing was one of the marquee sports in America alongside the patriotic pillars of...