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...last lap, the individual cries of encouragement have merged into a deafening roar - with an Australian accent, if that's possible. It's primal, visceral, genuinely thrilling. Everyone is standing now, screaming, concentrating intently on Thorpe, as if trying to transfuse their wills into...
...unattractive to the majority of people," is how Liberal premier Robin Gray infamously described it then; the wires are the first relic we'll see of his thwarted dream. Gray must never have seen the Irenabyss. The still corridor of water twists between high walls of speckled rock, the roar of the rapids lost behind us. Extraordinarily sharp reflections look etched on the surface of the cold water, which is thought to plunge 20 m in places. Clouds of bugs flutter on its surface, and delicate mosses hang from crevices. Beyond it the river wanders into a large pool, where...
...Kuala Lumpur one morning last year when an irritating drizzle suddenly billowed into a blinding tropical downpour. Spotting a flyover a few hundred meters ahead on the highway, Raja raced for shelter. A dozen fellow bikers were there already. As three lanes of rush-hour traffic continued to roar past, more bikers squeezed in, huddling together and turning their backs to the windblown rain and the heavy spray from passing vehicles. Raja lit a cigarette, then tilted one of his rear-view mirrors to check just how bedraggled he looked...
...pride of the Basque country, comes up against Real Madrid, the soccer symbol of the Spanish crown, it's more than simply an athletic spectacle involving 22 men and a ball. And when a Republic of Ireland striker puts one past the England goalkeeper in an international fixture, the roar heard across the Irish Diaspora expresses a passion that long predates the game of soccer itself. But just as the forces of globalization are challenging long-established notions of identity by eroding traditional boundaries of nation and tribe, so is the globalization of professional soccer challenging some of the traditional...
...pride of the Basque country, comes up against Real Madrid, the soccer symbol of the Spanish crown, it's more than simply an athletic spectacle involving 22 men and a ball. And when a Republic of Ireland striker puts one past the England goalkeeper in an international fixture, the roar heard across the Irish Diaspora expresses a passion that long predates the game of soccer itself. But just as the forces of globalization are challenging long-established notions of identity by eroding traditional boundaries of nation and tribe, so is the globalization of professional soccer challenging some of the traditional...