Sport
Athletics, basketball and the people who train for them.
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Sport
A 16-week marathon plan for busy people
Most marathon plans assume you have twelve hours a week to give. This one assumes you have six, and that some weeks you will have four. The structure is simpl…
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Sport
Three days chasing the wind: aboard the bay regatta
A sailing race rarely has a grandstand. The course lies a few kilometres off the coast, and from the shore all you see is a row of small white sails. Last wee…
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Sport
The arena is ready. Now for the crowds.
Photographed empty, the bowl looks enormous. Eighteen thousand seats climb from the court to the rafters, and a new video cube hangs where the old scoreboard …
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Sport
The 100 m final, in three moments
The first moment is the start. Reaction times were within hundredths of a second across the field, and the two men who would fight for the line were level at …
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Sport
One last jump: 8.02 m and a first gold
The city's leg of the athletics open finished its first day yesterday evening at the city sports centre. In the sixth round of the men's long jump final a 22-…
