Word: sportsmen
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These passionate sentiments are what constitute the “glory days,” what many sportsmen consciously consider to be the greatest periods of their lives...
...view, the World is either the apex of mankind's ingenuity or a cautionary tale about the feverish excesses of Dubai's 21st century boom. Each island was selling for $15 million to $50 million, by invitation only: its developers were pitching the spits of land to tycoons, sportsmen and celebrities. But when Dubai's property market imploded last year, dropping more than 50%, cheeky headlines in the international press suggested that "the end of the World" had arrived. One dealer was quoted as saying that the multibillion-dollar project had been postponed "indefinitely." (See pictures of Dubai...
...worlds of business and finance and politics seem to be so full of deception that we like to grasp onto the idea - naïve though this may be - that a football match or a motor race can provide a moment of liberation from all that. So when sportsmen or women cheat - scandals have sullied the image of baseball, cricket, cycling, rugby and soccer in recent times - the disservice to fans, and the damage done to sports, is far deeper. Cheating doesn't just hurt sports but betrays our sense of what's right, what's fairly attainable. It punches...
...question was, How? Simply knowing that the pose works is not the same as knowing why it works - at least, not in the detail a physicist would like. Recently a group of researchers from the Royal Veterinary College in London decided to find out, using tools Edwardian sportsmen couldn't have imagined...
...will never forget the almost aristocratic courtliness of the local soccer team, on those "slow Saturdays, when football like life was still played in black and white, and in shorts as long as underwear, when it was still not venal, when sportsmen and -women knew how to win and lose with grace and never to punch the air in victory." Or perhaps it was the strong bodies of the sportsmen that transfixed the young Terry. He realized he was different when he watched professional wrestling - or rather, the wrestlers: "O save me from those dark desires which thrill and compel...