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The Blueprint 3 proved Jay Z is still the biggest and baddest MC in the game. A few days before the album came out, he sat down with me to talk about Rihanna, President Obama, his hatred of YouTube beef, his love of Grizzly Bear, and of course, the death of auto-tune. The day that[…]
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Since the 1940s, there were many attempts to get softball into the Olympic Games, but it took about 50 years before it eventually happened. Softball was finally put on to the calendar for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. It probably won’t surprise you to learn the United States won. They won again in 2000.[…]
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Am I cool, Jonathon? In terms of my time thing? Are you sure? I’m sorry, it’s just some sh**. I need my mojo. Okay. I think you got it. No, I don’t have it. I left it at someone’s house. [Rock music] I’m a survivalist, if nothing else. Betting against me is probably not a[…]
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Hey, Nelly. Nelly, look, who am I? – Picasso. – Mm-mm. – Statue of Liberty. – Mm-mm. – The girl from The Hunger Games. – Mm-mm. I know, John Travolta. Mm-mm. Usain Bolt is the biggest star in global athletics. His success is unprecedented – the first sprinter to win double 100m and 200m titles[…]
Continue ReadingNottingham, England. Home of Robin Hood… ..Raleigh bicycles… and writer DH Lawrence. A city not commonly associated with the Olympic Winter Games – until a trainee policeman called Christopher Dean met an insurance clerk named Jane Torvill… ..and they combined to become one of the greatest Olympic duos of all time. We often refer to[…]
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Olympians must climb a steep hill to reach a peak of physical excellence. That is why the Olympic Games are for athletes in the prime of life. But the Olympics sometimes presents athletes who are slightly… How can I put this? ..on the other side of that hill. Athletes who are, perhaps, in the late[…]
Continue ReadingOlympic goes to Mexico. The Olympic high jump changed for ever on October 20th 1968. The location was Mexico City. All was normal until a gangly, 21-year-old civil engineering student in mis-matched running shoes did this. That man’s name was Dick Fosbury and although it may not seem unusual to your eyes now, in 1968[…]
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In the early years of the 20th century, the United States owned Olympic swimming. Every Summer Games, the best Americans proved way too strong for their international rivals. Stars like Duke Kahanamoku and Tarzan actor Johnny Weissmuller were famous around the world. How could a smaller nation, without the tradition and the resources of the[…]
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I’m eternally 12. You have to learn this if you’re going to interview me, we can’t discuss these things, I don’t know how I’m going to tell my children. It’s the whole new experience. ♪ I had a vision of love ♪ You gotta write the song in order to sing it. ♪ Heartbreaker, you[…]
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