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Category Archive: Sport

Found in Translation: the poetry in The Road to Sparta

In the documentary film The Road to Sparta, we took the slightly off-beam decision to turn to poetry […]

March 19, 2019 Books, Culture, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport

To Have Your π and Beat It

It is over 20 years since I last bumped into Michael Abrahamson. Pretty sure it was in a […]

March 15, 2019 Cricket, Culture, Sport

Sport in Art in Ancient Greece

Heinrich is a special kind of guide. A trained archaeologist with the appropriate eye for detail and a […]

February 19, 2019 Culture, Greece, Greek sporting legends, History, Olympics, Running, Sport

Kissing the feet of Leonidas

When a runner completes the 246-kilometre Spartathlon he or she earns a rare privilege. A last stretch of […]

February 5, 2019 Culture, Film, Greece, History, Spartathlon, Sport

The House that Ubu Built

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For the last 12 months I have been getting stressed. About a house. Not my house you understand, […]

January 16, 2019 Corbeil-Essonnes, Culture, France, History, Sport

Living in the fast lanes of Le Mans

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Speed is a drug. It is a high that gives you a sustained rush of adrenalin, takes you […]

June 16, 2017 France, Sport

Book Review – The Road to Sparta by Dean Karnazes

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My first encounter with Dean Karnazes came in the early summer of 2014. I was about to embark […]

December 28, 2016 Book reviews, Books, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport

First Night Nerves

It was inevitable there would be a few nerves. After two and a half years of hard work, […]

November 8, 2016 Culture, Dublin, Film, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport, Trinity College

Oh my, Sherif

Not many people will know the name Sherif Othman. Maybe a few geeky pub-quizzers but for the most […]

February 17, 2016 London 2012, Sport

Farewell to the King of the Sporting Lens

It is almost two weeks now since the photographer Mike King collapsed at his mother’s house and died at the […]

September 19, 2015 Culture, Rugby union, Sport

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