When several of my teenage contemporaries, tearaways in their youth, turned into model citizens, ie boring as hell when they grew up, it seemed reasonable to theorise that we all possess a certain quotient of ‘madness’ to get out during … Read more

With Kenyan women taking all six medals, albeit in their speciality events, the marathon and the 10,000 metres, on the first day of the World Championships in Daegu, their acceleration into the same stratosphere as their men is complete. It … Read more

Another great marathoner came to the end of the longest road on Sunday. Boston Marathon winner, and eight-time US champion, John ‘Kelley the Younger’ (to distinguish him from John A Kelley, a twice Boston winner previously) died at the age … Read more

When hundreds if not thousands of demonstrators were killed by the police, army and paramilitaries in the run-up to the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, the students, who were the principal victims could at least claim that they had a … Read more