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Pistorious
Author: Julie D Cole JulieDCole's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes I get more angry every day about this animal. He uses crocodile tears, the loss of his feet as a small child, black ties, wrenching in court and any trick he can to seek sympathy. ...
JulieDCole - 2014/10/14 - 2:22am - 4 comments
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Never be Royals? I beg to differ.
Author: Taylor Ryan Taylor Ryan's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes I'm so proud of my Kansas City Royals! Going to the World Series for first time since 1985. I wasn't even a year old the last time they went. So excited! ...
Taylor Ryan - 2014/10/23 - 5:56am - 5 comments
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Well done to Walsall FC
Author: Rachel Porter Rachel Porter's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes Walsall Football Club have reached their first Wembley final in their 127 year history. This would make John Brook (Michelle's father in Michelle's Story) rather hap ...
Rachel Porter - 2015/01/30 - 7:18am - 1 comment
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It seems amateur cyclists are doping as much as the pros
Author: Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes Why am I surprised? Probably because I'm incredibly naïve and don't understand why anyone would want to do it. It's dangerous and pointless. What's the point of brag ...
Angharad - 2015/05/12 - 9:14pm - 10 comments
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Life is NOT fair!!!
Author: Angela Rasch Angela Rasch's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes Last night was “one of those”. I had an unsettling nightmare that led to me tossing and turning in grim reflection of my life. At my age (67) and given the tumultuous and very p ...
Angela Rasch - 2015/07/04 - 5:36pm - 11 comments
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Tour De France
Author: Blogger rlarueh007's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes Well It looks like Angharad got her wish: "Britain's Chris Froome wins the Tour de France for second time." The way to go Chris! Richard ...
rlarueh007 - 2015/07/29 - 2:59pm - 1 comment
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Lizzie Armitstead wins World Championship Road Race
Author: Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes Well done, Lizzie, what an achievement. So she gets to wear the rainbow jersey for the next year. In a small matter at Twickenham, Wales beat England 28-25 in the Rugby World Cup, thoug ...
Angharad - 2015/10/03 - 11:53pm - 6 comments
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Guess who's back...
Author: Taylor Ryan Taylor Ryan's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes Congratulations to the Kansas City Royals! Going back to the World Series for their second in a row. Hoping they bring back a win this time around. Painting the city blue! ...
Taylor Ryan - 2015/10/27 - 5:53am - 5 comments
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Congratulations to the Kansas City Royals!
Author: Taylor Ryan Taylor Ryan's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes The Kansas City Royals have won the World Series 4-1. They came back to beat the New York Mets in the 12th inning of game 5, 7-2, after the Mets had a 2-0 lead for 8 innings. Hats ...
Taylor Ryan - 2015/11/03 - 11:54pm - 7 comments
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A very brave young woman
Author: Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes This young woman is trying to make it as a competitive cyclist in Afghanistan not the easiest place to be female let alone one who wants to race bicycles. She's only sixteen but li ...
Angharad - 2016/01/28 - 9:30am - 4 comments
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2nd bike ride of season
Author: Tels tels's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes well last year i finally found some ball bearing pedals that would accept my toe clips and was so happy to put them on. Well this is second bike ride of season, about 8 or 10 miles, and the one ...
tels - 2016/06/11 - 10:24am - 4 comments
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My Home Town
Author: Nicki Benson Nicki Benson's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes Yes it's Hartlepool United fans on their annual fancy dress outing. Last year they were doing their bit for cultural appropriation as Bob Marley, the year before it was Thu ...
Nicki Benson - 2016/06/11 - 10:24am - 1 comment
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Cav does it again!
Author: Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes Cavendish takes his third stage win of this year's TdF to lie second only to Merckx in the number of stage wins at the tour. With his form as it is, who knows if he might even over ...
Angharad - 2016/07/10 - 8:19am - 9 comments
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A shout out to the U.K. writers and fans.
Author: Catherine Linda Michel Catherine Linda Michel's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes Lewis Hamilton wins the Brit Grand Prix for the third year in a row. There's a Brit in the finals at Wimbledon and a Brit in the lead at The Tour De Fra ...
Catherine Linda... - 2016/07/14 - 11:32pm - 11 comments
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Olympic road course
Author: Karen Lockhart Karen Lockhart's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes Did anyone else watch the Men's road race this morning? OMG what a dangerous course, hair-pin turns cobble stones, and the downhills were scary. I thought the Iranian w ...
Karen Lockhart - 2016/08/13 - 7:07pm - 8 comments
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"The Life and Murder of Stella Walsh, Intersex Olympic Champion"
Author: Kris Kris.rev2.2's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes A long read (pun intended, since it's on longreads.com) but well worth the time. It addition to the story of Stella Walsh it provides introductions to some other early female track ...
Kris.rev2.2 - 2016/08/20 - 3:03pm - 3 comments
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"Who Gets to Race as a Woman?"
Author: Kris Kris.rev2.2's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes A New York Times editorial: "Regardless of the mix of hormones circulating in her blood, Caster Semenya is a woman. Like the other female athletes in Rio, she deserves her shot at t ...
Kris.rev2.2 - 2016/08/25 - 3:12pm - 3 comments
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The End of the World
Author: Valentine Valentine's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes Well it's been nice knowing everyone, but since the Chicago Cubs have just won the World Series, the world should be ending soon. Yay! ...
Valentine - 2016/11/03 - 11:57am - 14 comments
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Questions about gym in highschool
Author: Selene Selene's blog Blog About: Sports / Athletes Ok so in a lot of stories on this site gym in highschool is depicted as something totally alien to me, so I'm kinda curious if this is really how things are in America. Of course I rea ...
Selene - 2017/01/22 - 3:14pm - 29 comments
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SheBelievesCup
Author: Piper Piper's blog Blog About: Autobiographical Sports / Athletes Just an FYI... I will be in the endzone at the #SheBelievesCup matches today in Harrison, NJ. As a pastime and to help de-stress I have been doing sports photography for a sp ...
Piper - 2017/03/08 - 10:20am - 10 comments