Tag: Sport
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What is it like riding a £10k Team Sky bike on Britain’s roads?
Peter Kimpton tries out the new suspension Pinarello KS-8 road bike, a model similar to that ridden by Chris Froome in the Tour De France and tested by Sir Bradley Wiggins
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Royal Ascot attracts largest global challenge in meeting’s history
• Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome among runners • Owner admits horse faces tough task in Prince Of Wales’s Stakes
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From the frow to the brow: how front row politics transcended fashion
Once upon a time, the most in-demand seat was on the front row of a Burberry show. Now it’s a seat courtside at the NBA playoffs and even in high-octane exercise classes
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Japan’s Just A Way has been rated the best horse in the world for 2014
• Runaway success in Dubai Duty Free earns horse top spot• Kingman in joint third place after being forced to retire
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Zaha Hadid’s Tokyo Olympic stadium slammed as a ‘monumental mistake’ and a ‘disgrace to future generations’
The 2020 Olympic stadium has faced two years of widespread criticism and budget cuts. Now prominent Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has launched a blistering attack on the designsZaha Hadid: ‘I don’t make nice little buildings’
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Money makes Bernie Ecclestone’s Formula One world go round
When the man who takes the profit is allowed to make the rules, it is not surprising that a preoccupation with spectacle eats away at the soul of a sport