Farewell to Motty (eventually)
Spotted today upon the website of – THE [...]
Articles by Tom Hollingworth
My topic was a false start
In following the Rust’s stance of principle against the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport, I have made use of a nose-peg and a healthy pinch of salt each time before tuning in to the World Athletics Championships now drawing to a close at the London Stadium. There are so many things [...]
On London – and Bolt reaching the finishing line
Since last Friday evening from time to time I have dipped in to the BBC television coverage of the 2017 Athletics World Championships being staged at the former London 2012 Olympic Stadium, now renamed the London Stadium and primarily used as the home venue of the Premiership soccer team West Ham [...]
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 [...]
Time to hang up your boots?
Seeing Ernie Els perform so well yesterday in the Open aged 46 having won the Claret Jug in his forties I wondered about getting “over the hill” in different sports. In golf a player never really knows whether he has another major or in the case of Ricky Fowler, Lee Westwood and before [...]
They’re coming, so embrace them or miss out …
Here are two more recommended reads for Rust adherents on the general subject of the future of global sport, not that many of our demographic (including me) will know a great deal about the never-ending array of technological developments being readily embraced by the generations following ours! [...]
What’s real and what is not
Several years ago one of the newspaper cartoons that made me smile was a comment upon a report that British senior citizens were organising a protest march in Whitehall about something or another. It depicted a bunch of examples of said demographic, engaged in its march, holding placards saying [...]
What is a great sportsman?
The above question might seem facile as the obvious answer is someone at the top of heir sport for a significant period of time. An obvious candidate would be 18 time major winner Jack Nicklaus but I would say he is as much qualified for his sportsmanship. We use the words ” sport” and [...]
It’s got to happen sometime
For those of us who ever worried about the future and the way that elite sport is going globally, here’s another article worth reading – Dervashi Lodhia on the route in which the IOC might take the Olympic Games in terms of taking e-sports on board – see here, as appears on the [...]
A long sporting day
In the old days before I wrote for the Rust and participated in the Great Debate (attendance v tv) it was a gimme that if I had a ticket – by no means easy to obtain – I would invariably go to the event. In those pre-SKY days there was virtually no live football, cricket and the BBC had [...]