Gathered in London for those 1908 Games, swimming officials formed the world governing body, FINA, as CRAIG LORD recounts in his official centenary hi…
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Month: December 2008
Clegg decides to leave BOA
Simon Clegg, who stood down last month as chief executive after 20 years at the British Olympic Association, today announced he was quitting the organ…
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It’s O Kay for Times football correspondent
Oliver Kay has been promoted by The Times to football correspondent.…
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Monte Fresco’s photographic memories
TALES FROM THE TOY DEPARTMENT: MONTE FRESCO was awarded the MBE in 1995 in recognition of his long and distinguished career as one of Fleet StreetR…
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Play the Game sends delegates to Coventry
Dick Pound, the former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency and still an influential member of the International Olympic Committee, heads the ear…
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The Summers day that brightened Christmas
NORMAN GILLER recounts the tale of the most unlikely scoreline in football history, and the part played by a Fleet Street comp For the sports reporter…
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Driscoll wins dismissal case against News of the World
Matt Driscoll, a former senior sports reporter at the News of the World, has won his claim for unfair dismissal against the paper, after an employment…
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Record’s sports editor leaves in Glasgow cull
Alan Rowan, the sports editor at the Trinity Mirror-owned Daily Record in Glasgow is among 13 staff at the Scottish tabloid and the Sunday Mail to hav…
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When world title fights had a real head of steam
Nearly 150 years ago, boxing’s first world championship fight took place between England’s Tom Sayers and John Heenan of the United States…
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Looking back somewhere over the rainbow
NORMAN GILLER, once dubbed the “Original Ghostwriter of Fleet Street”, ventures into the blogosphere to look back to a sports writing era …
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