Perhaps the story of these Games is Michael Phelps’s pursuit of eight gold medals in the swimming. Phelps is up to three golds after this morni…
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Month: August 2008
Ex-footballer Babb launches Football Punk
Football Punk, from the publishers of Golf Punk, has been launched this month with the aim of being regarded as “thinking man’s soccer mag…
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Murray doubles up to prolong Olympic experience
From Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman Andy Murray’s debut day at the Olympic Games finished on a better note just before midnight when he and his br…
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Adlington makes swim history by her fingertips
From Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman Beijing, Monday: Olympic gold medals for members of the British team are becoming somewhat like London buses. Swimme…
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Golden Cooke’s tour of Beijing kickstarts Team GB
Cooke would have done well to match American swimmer Michael Phelps in terms of her supporters out on the road race course: waving the star spangled b…
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Medal hopeful’s parents caught in Olympic ticket scam
From InsidetheGames.com The parents of one of Britain’s brightest medal hopes have lost £1,100 in the ticket scam which has fleeced hundreds…
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Steve Parry: funeral arrangements
Bradman’s below average day at The Oval
TALES FROM THE TOY DEPARTMENT: In a year redolent with sporting anniversaries, PHILIP BARKER looks back to Don Bradman’s final Test match at The…
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Attacks on westerners sees murder at Olympics
The United States Olympic Committee has issued a statement following the murder of one American national in an attack in central Beijing in the early …
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Beijing fireworks spark Munich memories
From Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman Beijing, Saturday: China’s statement to the world on what it can do for the Olympic Games left everyone open m…
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