Day: 22 August 2016

No rational person predicted that Team GB would beat the entire world apart from the US and come second in Rio. Especially not of my generation, fed on almost a lifetime of Olympic under achievement until the breakthrough in Beijing. There is of course much talk about sporting legacies, with inspiration seeping into every park and […]

I am not a sporty person so I am very much a spectator, but as a youngster I was taught boxing, so when I watch a fight  I understand exactly what is going on. There is no doubt at all that Joe Joyce won his bout by a margin and should have been awarded the gold medal. He was […]