Ultralighters choose thin layers of man-made fibre for clothing; never cotton, which never dries. Talking of which, there’s nothing worse than chafing and now that rugby players wear Lycra under shorts, it’s acceptable to admit that wearing them on long hikes is essential.
Read Will Robinson’s advice on hiking in the UK before heading out as […]
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Rolling down that hill (in a transparent inflated ball).
In the end Sven Göran Eriksson just had to go — after five years in England he still couldn’t speak English. Teachers like Michael Owen, Rio Ferdinand and David Beckham couldn’t have helped though.
Jeg vet ikke hva Gorm Andersen i Dagbladet tar eller om det var sikten som ødela for ham i regnværet i Helsinki — faktum er i alle fall at Andreas Thorkildsen tok på seg den hvite Adidas-lua før 85- og 86-meters kastene kom. Gorm må være den eneste som så at han tok på lua […]
I see that Tiger Woods and the other pros are blaming club technology for their failure at the Open Golf (thisislondon):
Players at the top of their profession are saying something needs to be done. These players believe that with old equipment the gap between them and the slightly lesser player was wider than it is […]
The British still prefer to use cars instead of bicycles (The Guardian, regreq). No wonder this government cycling initiative fails, the big cities in England are no-go areas for cyclists.
Two simple actions to help us use our bikes (I have just started using mine a little after leaving it in storage for six years):
Make it […]
We might be going down, but at least next season we will have some
hot kit.
According to Ananova the new home shirt, designed by Diadora, includes a logo on the shoulder which changes colour to show the increase of physical effort and body temperature. It looks quite nice as well. Several teams will use the […]
The most irritating thing about David Beckham is not his OK/Hello/Hola celebrity lifestyle, his excellent right foot, his looks or his millions. What really annoys me is his insistence on saying you know at least once in every sentence (he shares this with many footballers). David was interviewed after the Real Madrid vs Bayern Munich […]
Alain Robert is not the first human spider to climb tall buildings: George Willig, “Spider Dan” Goodwin and the more obscure Tony Deutchler did climbs in the 80’s and 90’s.
Even further back there are stories about Bill Strother doing a climb in 1921 in Augusta and Jack Williams doing climbs in 1917 and 1918.
The sculpturist […]
The parkour are following in the footsteps of the greatest urban athlete of them all: climber Alain Robert - The Man Spider. His website is full of charming English like:
Is he out the law?
It is very difficult to obtain authorizations to climb a tower with naked hands, then to each one of its rises, Alain […]
We did swing around lampposts and climb roofs in the town when I was a kid - but that’s where we stopped. The kids from Lisses south of Paris did not stop - they continued to hone their skills and so invented the sport of free-running:
moving around the urban landscape as it was a combination […]