As Euro 2008 kicks off today, PHILIP BARKER looks back 20 years to a classic European nations championship To this day, I still do not know how he did…
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Category: Sports digest
Football writers count the cost of failure
JONATHAN BROWN, in yesterday’s Independent, looked at the impact England and Scotland’s failures to qualify for this summer’s Euro 2…
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Media discontent over Beijing censorship
From Roy Greenslade, Guardian Unlimited A lengthy article in Time magazine, Will the Olympic torch burn China? today began by pointing to the nonsense…
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Pendleton and Hoy head Britain’s Worlds squad
British Cycling has announced a 23-rider Great Britain team, including reserves, for the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, which are to be h…
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Football power can shift very easily
Martin Samuel, the SJA’s Sports Writer of the Year in 2005 and 2006, provides this insightful commentary on the Premier League’s proposal …
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Doing the right thing – but avoiding legal Chambers
Ahead of this weekend’s national indoor athletics championships in Sheffield, and the latest chapter in the Dwain Chambers controversy, at last …
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Beijing build-up offers much for media
VERA ATKINSON, press chief for British Gymnastics, has just returned from a pre-Olympic event in Beijing. Here’s her report for sportsjournalist…
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Volunteers get Torch recognition
By Barry Newcombe Sports volunteers from all parts of the United Kingdom were honoured by the Torch Trophy Trust at their annual awards presentation a…
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Wise up, and let’s catch the real cheats
Christine Ohuruogu, 400m world champion, this week had her appeal against a lifetime ban from selection for Britain’s Olympic teams granted foll…
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Baa baas become rugby’s black sheep
ALISDAIR REID looks back with fondness at the tradition of the Barbarians, but doubts whether they have any future in the modern game There are dirtie…
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