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Making It Count.

In individual sporting contests there is no need for a Player of the Match award, as the event or the tournament is summed up by the term, ‘to the victor go the spoils.’ When it comes to team sports often

Inspirational Athletes – 22

It was the Tanzanian marathon runner John Akwhari who famously said after finishing the 1968 Olympic Marathon long after his fellow competitors had finished, and as they were packing up the stadium, “My country did not send me 5,000 miles

Neither A Borrower Nor A Lender Be

People of a certain age will no doubt recall the sage advice of their parents, which was to always live within your means. In other words if you couldn’t afford to buy something wait until you could. That school of

It Takes Two to Quango

Recently in conversation with an elite athlete they asked a question that could not be answered. ‘We as athletes get judged on our performance, if we fail individually we get dropped from the squad or the elite program. If the