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Entries by David Fearnhead from 07/2012

Why Sports Fans Are Short Changed in the Literary World

| Posted 07.06.2012 | Huffington Post
Read More: Sports, Nick-Hornby-Fever-Pitch, Football, Books, Chris Cleave, Women's Reading Habits, Bailey of the Saints, Sports Books, Huffington Post News

Once upon a time Nick Hornby published Fever Pitch and football went mainstream and reached the middle classes. Whilst football has not dwindled in the public's interest it seems a readership which the literary world seems happy to try and satiate with a few high profile autobiographies.

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Drug Cheats at the Olympics: You Can Run, But You Can't Hide

| Posted 07.20.2012 | UK Sport
Read More: 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Olympics, Drugs in Sports, Antonio Pettigrew, Marion Jones, 2012 London Olympic Games, Olympics Drugs, UK Sport News

Years of training have honed athletes' bodies into the perfect machine. They've sacrificed everything to get there. Everything for that one day when four years work would come to fruition. I'd seen broken men and women sat there. Though, from that one day something else sticks in my memory. A darker side to the Olympic games.

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Boobs, Beauty, and Beach Volleyball

| Posted 07.27.2012 | UK Sport
Read More: Olympic Beach Volleyball, 2012 London Olympic Games, Slovakia, Women Olympics, Eastern European Women, Beach Volleyball, Olympics News, Feminism, UK Sport News

In Slovakia as here, we live in a society where for some beauty is to be attacked. There is dislike that someone can be both beautiful and happy. Cracks must be found and opened up.

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