So we're Brits, right? We're cynical. We're
self-deprecating. We can be a bit sarcastic, yeah? We've
always been more comfortable as the plucky loser. And we're
not like those noisy Latins or Americans who like to shout
about their success from the rooftops, especially when it
comes to sport? Wrong.
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Sports Insider - Olympics posts
My Top 10 for SPOTY
There have been years when the BBC's SPOTY has been,
frankly, a joke. Not for the show, nor the presentation, but
for the contenders.
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My London Olympics
So that's it, the flame has flickered and been extinguished
and all we are left with are memories, but indelible
memories and a greater sense of pride and purpose today.
We Brits are not big on self-congratulations and
nationalistic pride. We're more comfortable with our
self-deprecation and cycnicism.
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Who's the Greatest? It's Still Redgrave
Now that Sir Chris Hoy has bagged six golds and a silver at
the Olympics and the soon to be "Sir" Bradley Wiggins has
four golds, a silver and two bronzes to his name the
statistics argue that one of these two, and it is Hoy due
to his golds, is now the greatest British Olympian...
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The Young Training Partner Called Somebody Hoy
So there I was, up in Manchester, pretty fearful as I
cycled furiously up and down the steep, wooden banking of
the velodrome in a forlorn chase of Jason Queally, who had
just returned from the 2000 Sydney Olympics as the new one
kilo champion.
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A Golden Weekend Never to be Forgotten, and a New British Mantra: Winning is Our Currency
Will we ever see a sporting weekend like that again, at
least from a British perspective? I hope we will, but it may
take some time.
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Brace Yourself for Super Saturday for Team GB!
So, was it only a few days ago that we were all getting into
a bit of a tizzy over Team GB's apparent lack of gold medals
at their home Games? It was, as I wrote back then, down to
the event schedule, not any perceived failures.
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The GB Gold Rush is Just Around the Corner
Three days have gone at the London Olympics and no gold
medals yet for Team GB. In the immortal words of Catherine
Tate, am I bothered?
Well no, not yet. Far from it.
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My Big GB Ten for the Olympics
And so the time has come. We have waited 7 years since we
won the bid, and 64 years since we last staged the Olympics,
but the Games are just one day away and we, the British
nation, expects.
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*News comes to me that Zoe Smith, Team GB's teenage
weight-lifting star, has been subjected to a barrage of
highly personal abuse from internet trolls (no, not those
hairy, mythical monsters that live under Norwegian bridges
but those morons who bravely write abuse from the safety of
their grotty, dimly-lit room) on the basis that she...
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