Who is Afraid of Susie Wolf?
It has been 22 years since a woman driver took part in a Formula One Grand Prix weekend but Susie Wolf is about to change all that. It was announced earlier this week that Wolf will be on the track
On Me Head Son
No doubt anyone who has watched any of the Winter Olympics will have noticed that many of the athletes are wearing some pretty stylish headgear, especially the helmets. There is however much more to the designs than meets the eye.
True Olympic Spirit
Every Olympic Games there are moments that make you realise that sport is not always about winning. Moments that would make Baron Pierre de Coubertin proud, as he envisaged the games as being far more than a stage for the
Cold War Revisited?
In these days of neutral officials at sporting events one has to sympathise with the Russians at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. In the host nation’s Ice Hockey match with the USA, the referee, Brad Meier, an American, disallowed a
Ladies First – At Last.
One of the reasons it took women so long to be accepted as competitors in the Olympic Games was the view that they should only engage ‘in restrained and non-violent’ exercises to protect their ‘peculiar function of multiplying the species.’
