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Tag Archives: Olympic Games
‘Seagrove will run’: The Oympian I knew
He won Olympic medals, helped create the Commonwealth Games and, er, taught ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 8: David Bond
PAUL SAFFER on a champion so obscure that even his workmates didn’t know he’d won gold. Continue reading
Pick of the pops: A Song for Jeremy
It’s a new generation calling with a message to you. Barnet’s tribute to Jeremy Corbyn. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 7: David Cecil
PAUL SAFFER’s series continues with a hurdler fictionalized in Chariots of Fire. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 6: Hugh Edwards and Lewis Clive
From the Bullingdon Club to the International Brigade – PAUL SAFFER on a coxless pair. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 5: 3rd Earl of Kimberley
PAUL SAFFER on the polo-playing missing link between Bertie Wooster and Winston Churchill. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 4: Arnold Jackson
PAUL SAFFER on a war hero, Versailles negotiator and founder of the Kentucky Derby, who also won 1500m gold. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 3: City of London Police
PAUL SAFFER celebrates a team of flat-footed Edwardian tuggers. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 2: CBK Beachcroft
Continuing his salute to forgotten British Olympic heroes, PAUL SAFFER remembers a cricketing comedian. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 1: Launceston Elliot
In the first of a new series, PAUL SAFFER salutes a weightlifting, rope-climbing, sprinting holder of the British discus record. Continue reading
