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Athletics’ Quick Fix: How the politics of doping is taking athletics to the brink of ruin

June 2003 As most sport-crazy 9 – 90 year-old boys do, I began reading my copy of the Mail on Sunday from the last page to the first. But on this particular day, my eyes were strangely captivated by the side column rather tha...
by Tommy Rufai
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Floyd Mayweather: Deeper than the money

For Floyd Mayweather Jr., the number 48 symbolises his solidified status as the best fighter of his generation. For Manny Pacquiao, perhaps it’s a fatalistic sign to choose an ironically simpler path into politics. But person...
by Tommy Rufai
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Cricket

Identity Crisis? – Cricket and Multiculturalism

As England and India clash this summer it is worth considering whether the loyalties of British-born Asians tell us something about the deeper issues of identity and integration in modern, multicultural Britain. Alongside Enoch...
by Kishan Koria
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Asia
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Cricket – A Uniting Force Among Pakistanis

Over the past decade Pakistan has gone through a period of turmoil, both in terms of politics and economy. We have seen floods cause massive losses, we have seen the stock market crash, we have seen rising inflation, we have wi...
by Sohaib Rubnawaz
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Remembering The Lima Football Tragedy, 50 Years On

Fifty years ago, Peru’s National Stadium in Lima became the site of what is today considered the worst tragedy to ever happen at a football stadium, during which 320 people were killed and 500 were wounded. On May 24, 196...
by Gabriela Garcia Calderon
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Terrorism And The 2014 Winter Games At Sochi

The Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, which begin this February, mark a momentous occasion and opportunity for a resurgent President Vladimir Putin to show the world the best Russia has to offer under his leadership, and t...
by Tarleton Watkins
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Asia

Tokyo’s Hope for Improvements by 2020 Olympics

On 7 September 2013, Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Summer Olympics after the members of International Olympic Committee voted to select the host city from Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul. As Tokyo celebrates its win, opinion leader...
by Keiko Tanaka
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Balkans

Football Beyond Borders Balkans Tour Day 8 – East Sarajevo

As a charity of only five years, we know the value of solid, long-lasting partnerships between like-minded organisations. One of these was forged the day before in Ilidza, south-west of Sarajevo, when we agreed to work with KUL...
by James Appleby
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Balkans

Football Beyond Borders Balkans Tour Day 2 – Mostar

In the opening day of our Balkans tour, we saw the inspiring work that Our Kids Foundation does to give orphans in Mostar, Bosnia and Hercegovina a quality of life that is so unique in a nation lacking in welfare money and havi...
by James Appleby
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