Ultra-distance running is a marginal affair at best, but Christopher McDougall has written an ambitious, informative and entertaining book, Born To Run, which threatens, however briefly to bring the pursuit into the mainstream. A sometime war correspondent for Associated Press … Read more

I love experts. On whatever subject. You know the type, people who know their subject back to front, speak quietly and succinctly, explaining carefully and accessibly, and have the class to admit when they don’t know something. But their expertise … Read more

A few months after Usain Bolt made his first ripple on the surface of international track and field athletics, winning the world junior 200 metres title, at age 15 no less, in his backyard in Kingston, Jamaica, Stephen Cherono created … Read more