A July sporting round-up
This morning, for the second day running, I awoke and spent the morning going about my usual business whilst feeling rather ‘empty’ and hard done by. Fortunately I didn’t need to be Einstein to work out why. After Wimbledon followed by the sporting extravaganza that was the back end of last week through to Sunday evening – coupled with a Monday orgy of reading the sports sections of the media websites and newspapers reviewing the final throes of the golfing Open on top of everything else that had been going on – it was a bit of a come-down.
Something is clearly missing from my life this week. How great it would be if the world was in a permanently state of the finest sports events on the planet occurring every week!
However, all is not lost. There is still plenty going on, and many excellent sports-related pieces being penned even as I type. Here (in no order of importance) are some of those I spotted this morning on the UK newspaper websites and felt moved to provide links to for the benefit of any Rust readers who may have missed them:-
SWIMMING
Adam Peaty, still only 22 years of age, is currently dominating the world of breaststroke swimming in a manner that ought to have him hailed as being one of the all-time greats of any sport, never mind just his own.
Here’s a piece by Adam Crafton providing some background material upon his extraordinary feats – DAILY MAIL
CYCLING
Chris Froome has joined the immortals with his fourth victory in five years in the just-finished and as gruelling as ever Tour de France.
William Fotheringham reflects upon the Tour after reporting upon his last one – THE GUARDIAN
RUGBY UNION
Despite retaining it’s ‘old school’ (“What goes on tour stays on tour”, “boys will be boys”) heavy drinking and pranks sub-culture, rugby is a sport that generally gets a very positive press. Without either carrying out ‘trial in the media’ or commenting upon the merits or the action, here’s a report upon two elite Ulster and Ireland players being accused of rape in Northern Ireland, as appears upon the website of the – DAILY TELEGRAPH
CRICKET
Following the sensation England Women’s victory in the Women’s World Cup on Sunday at Lords – taking the female version of the sport to new heights – there’s still plenty of things happening in English cricket, for example:-
Tim Wigmore upon how London came to dominate the English cricket Test scene – THE INDEPENDENT
Simon Burnton on the subject of no balls, and aspect of cricket whose importance sometimes gets underplayed – THE GUARDIAN
