by admin | Jul 5, 2024 | Sports Articles
A young boy is slogging his way round the track during the Inter-House athletics, trying to lift one heavy foot off the ground after another, losing touch with the other runners but joylessly sweating this torment out. But then, almost as music to his...
by admin | Jul 4, 2024 | Sports Articles
It is interesting that in the word ‘perseverance’ are the words ‘severe’ and ‘race’. As perseverance is a long word, a long-distance word, this serves as a good reminder that we need perseverance when we take part in a long, severe race. What...
by admin | Jul 4, 2024 | Sports Articles
Increasingly we read in newspapers of international sportsmen and women announcing their ‘retirement’ from international sport, usually with the explanation that it is done (“very regrettably” they add) in order for them to be able to continue with their...
by admin | Jul 4, 2024 | Sports Articles
True story! Two boys were great friends at the same Primary School; both showed great potential in sport, one in rugby and the other in hockey. The key question for their parents, when it came to choosing a Secondary school for their child, was the matter...
by admin | Jul 4, 2024 | Sports Articles
The sporting world was very different forty years ago; in those days, many international sportsmen and women in different sports were part-timers and were unpaid – in fact, they had to pay for much of the privilege of playing for their country. Indeed,...
