Pour some gold into winning more Olympic medals
The Paris Olympics should be the last time New Zealand or Ireland, for crying out loud, win more medals than we do
11 August 2024 - 00:00
I’ve decided to save up for tickets to at least one swimming day and two athletics days at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. In 1992 I spent a few hours watching Olympic athletics in Barcelona; I was sitting three rows from the front at the end of the turn into the final straight when the local hero, Fermín Cacho, burst from the pack to take the lead and win the men’s 1500m final...
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