VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: Our diarist has stayed on in Rio for the Paralympics, feeling the chill air of the aircon and budget cuts, and seeing the warm…
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Dodging bullets over green pools and empty stands
VIEW FROM THE OLYMPIC PRESSBOX: Our insider at the Rio Games reports back after the opening week of events, and the fun and games around the Mixed Zon…
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Buses, food and TV links: things Rio media are missing
VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: There's a real risk of moaning about first-world problems while surrounded by third-world poverty, homelessness and hunger of …
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A 20-year Olympic absence and no Rio regrets
VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: The Games may be coming, but RANDALL NORTHAM has no great hankering to be working at 2016's 'Greatest Show On Earth'…
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Farewell France. You got just about what you deserved
VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: Hack's hacked off. And he's off now, returning home after five weeks on the road in France, where enthusiasm for Euro 2016 was…
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Homesick hack’s lesson in humility from Ronaldo
VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: Wales fans have had a great time, they've drunk France dry, and now they get to go home. Meanwhile, after more than a month, o…
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Surviving fast cars, mixed zones and missed goals
VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: One football hack has been blogging from Euro 2016 since the tournament started, and he long ago lost his sense of humour, eve…
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Euros’ press centres as deflating as match balls
If you thought the tournament footballs deflating, the French pitches too leaden and the crowd-control non-existent, then you ought to take a look at …
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How I missed seeing Three Lions’ great game
VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: Twenty years ago, ADRIAN WARNER set off to cover a football press conference and found himself reporting on a terrorist atroci…
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Ali: ‘The splendour of his charisma, his eternal appeal’
There has been an outpouring of grief and respect for Muhammad Ali, who died in Arizona on Friday aged 74. Many of the tributes and obituaries have be…
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