Usain Bolt: Fast and loose | Athletics | Simon Hattenstone
He can run 100m in 9.58 seconds, but says he’s lazy. He’s the best sprinter on the planet, but fancies turning his hand to professional football. And as for settling down? Forget that. Usain Bolt is a freak of nature. There’s the size, for starters: 6ft 5in with size 13 feet (ideal sprinters are thought [...]
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England men look to emulate women
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GB men win first Euro team medal
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As it happened – England v Germany
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Live text – England v Germany
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GB ready for vital European draws
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Jesse Owens, Hitler and Nazi Germany – TV drama to relive 1936 Olympics
TalkbackThames and German peers UFA Fernsehproduktion to make The Olympics in time for 2012 London games The heroism and controversy of the 1936 Olympics is to be retold in a dramatisation made in time for the London Olympics. TalkbackThames, the producers of The Bill, have teamed with a German production company to tell the story [...]
