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Olympian World Map

It’s a map!! #ParisOlympics #ClosingCeremony pic.twitter.com/a1zc8tw0uH — NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 11, 2024 Catch the ponderous, overlong, disjointed and inferior sound quality of this year's Olympic closing ceremony. There were thankfully the odd decent moment or two. Yet too few and far between

Beat Your Beep

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kfm 94.5 🇿🇦 (@kfmza) I did enjoy this audiophile assessment of the Men's 100m Olympic final. An epic race for the ages. The 200sec-clip this breakfast radio circus crew shared above was inspired in part because their local man

Your Olympic Lodge

Well. A couple of biological males punching hell out of female boxers, triathletes expected to swim the sewage-ravaged Seine, and the Village being abandoned in droves as some smart alecs thought elite performers ought swelter starved of protein and settle for meagre vegan diets instead. Maybe every Olympiad gets engulfed

Silver Medallist Effect

The 2024 Olympics in full swing. I was reminded of research showing that bronze medallists, on the whole, appear significantly happier than the silver medallists who beat them out. The silver medallist typically compares themselves to only one other athlete, the winner. Whereas the bronze medallist compares with all. Happy

xSales

I knew football has its xG measure. For Expected Goals. Loosely, or tightly depending on your view, based on the likelihood any created chance is statistically scored. Now I learn of cricket's equivalent; xW. Expected Wickets. It too looks at chances created to earn a dismissal. And is

Process Means Goal

I remember watching live on Sunday night tv, the Panenka. Champion winning innovation. Next day in the school playground lapping up trying to emulate the incredible, deceptive, delicate dink as keeper dives away from the centre of the goal. Half-a-century on, we now have the Toney. Somehow, misfiring England reached

Hotel Room Adapting

England, bloody 'ell. Being a born and bred sport-mad Englishman has made for a rollercoaster life. We invented sports, y'know. And the like. We are forever playing in every other nation's cup final. Even when not an actual final. The ABE (Anybody But England) trope

How Different Are Your Visuals?

Bukayo Saka smoothly flies a paper airplane during England's friendly against Iceland ✈️ pic.twitter.com/h53xLQMwYT — Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) June 8, 2024 It's often toss of a coin whether London's The Times Martin Samuel serves up an agreeable column. His recent evisceration

Shy Kids Don't Get Sweets🍭

This is the 'insta bio' life mantra of English golf sensation and photo editor dream cover girl, Charley Hull. I was thinking around something similar for myself as she blew up feeds the other day. Sadly, that story was not related to her terrific prowess. Yet it led

Tidy Desk Police Can Make Your Quota Unreachable

Messy desks have been discussed recently in areas way beyond office manager chat groups. Courtesy the recently shoehorned in minority owners of Manchester United Football Club. Regularly atop the table of most valuable teams in all of world sport, it has if not a new broom, then a dust pan