by admin | Jul 10, 2024 | Sports Articles
In the powerful Oscar-winning film ‘Chariots of Fire’, which followed the great rivalry between the two great sprinters of the early 1920s, Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell, Harold Abrahams suffered a humiliating defeat to Liddell and reflected deeply...
by admin | Jul 10, 2024 | Sports Articles
Some time ago five schools competed in an Inter-Schools athletics meeting in a neighbouring country. One of the schools arrived after the scheduled starting time; they stepped off the bus in their civilian clothes without any school team kit; in half of...
by admin | Jul 10, 2024 | Sports Articles
Standing in the baking heat for hours on end, with no protection from the blazing sun, dust being whisked up into our face, the glare bouncing off the brown earth and piercing our eyes, while we are only occasionally called into action; standing in the...
by admin | Jul 10, 2024 | Sports Articles
When things go wrong, be it in life, in sport, in business, in relationships, our first tendency is to blame others. This has been wonderfully encapsulated in the following well-known piece: “One day a university professor bemoaned about his students that,...
by admin | Jul 10, 2024 | Sports Articles
There is no question that boxers lay their lives on the line and many onlookers will wonder why on earth anyone would put themselves through such pain, trauma and suffering. Are boxers in their right senses? Such a thought may cross our mind further when...
