Ben Campbell, Correspondent (Sport) Sir Bradley Wiggins returned to his form that earned him a golden 2012 last week at the Tour of Britain, taking the crown by 26 seconds from Danish rider Martin Elmiger. After a glittering 2012, Wiggins has endured a difficult 2013, as Chris Froome was selected to lead Team Sky’s ultimately successful assault on a second consecutive Tour de title, and illness leading to his withdrawal from the 2013 Giro […]
Ben Campbell, Correspondent (Sport) Following the unmitigated success of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, outgoing president of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge this week announced that the Olympics will once again return to Asia — this time to the land of the rising sun. Tokyo overwhelmingly beat off competition from Madrid and Istanbul to claim the right to stage the grandest event in sports. The announcement was met with jubilant scenes in the Japanese […]
Ben Campbell, Sport (Correspondent) It is the first day of the college football season in America. Local rivals Georgia State await on the field. Clemson, based in South Carolina, just 10 minutes north of the state border with Georgia, leave their locker room to board three coaches, which make their way to The Hill. Clemson players enter the stadium and gather around Howard’s — a rock brought to the stadium from Death Valley in […]
Ben Campbell, Correspondent (Sport) It is fair to say that Barry Hearn isn’t exactly endearing himself to sports’ purists. Credited with having brought darts and to a lesser extent snooker, out of the doldrums and into the public eye, the ubiquitous Hearn, a former account and now a sporting events promoter, has recently set his sights upon spicing up table tennis. As it is now synonymous with Hearn’s involvement in a sport, […]
