The next Laura Trott and Jason Kenny might just find themselves sitting not in the saddle but on the sofa due to lack of funding, watching someone else's sublime achievements light up their TV screen
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The Republican Presidential candidate's exhortation to black people while campaigning in an all-white working class town is the US equivalent of standing in the middle of Anfield trying reach out to Manchester United supporters
Some credit should be reserved for Tony Blair, who won the 2012 Olympics for London, boosting the prestige and motivation of British sport, but I'm not generally allowed to mention him
Imagine a black woman falsely accusing a man of a crime, or a man of colour being accused of lying to the police?
Washington used to be 'Murder Capital USA'. Now the city's annual murder rate has fallen by three-quarters – and no incident of police brutal over-reaction against the black community has made national headlines
From Childeric III via the Carnation Revolution to recent events in British politics
'We were literally doing fake coke for, like, seven months, every day'
