Last week a few friends and I headed to the Olympic Stadium here in London for a session of the 2017 IAAF World Championships. Organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations and held every two years, it is the sport’s second most prestigious event after the Olympics.
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This past weekend was certainly nice and busy on the sporting front.
On Friday night we headed to the London Aquatics Centre in Stratford to watch the European Aquatic Championships. Held every two years, the championships consist of swimming, diving and synchronised swimming and we...
This past weekend I headed off to Alexandra Palace for the first sporting event of the year … the 2014 World Championship of Ping Pong! This was also my debut watching live professional ping pong.
The difference between ping pong and table tennis is that ping pong bats are...
This past weekend I watched a sport I’d been wanting to watch since I first moved to London over a year ago now – darts! It’s the 2013 World Darts Championship and three friends and I headed off to Alexandra Palace for day two’s action.
Growing up in South Africa in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, we had a weekly NFL hour highlights package on the sports channel ‘Supersport’. As a sports-mad kid, this was something new and I was hooked! Back then there was no Google so it took me close on a full season to...
The overall will be making another appearance come November!
Without doubt one of the reasons I’ve always wanted to live in London is for the sport. There is so much happening in and around the UK...
I visited Moscow and St Petersburg in April for 10 days and in Moscow I met up with Maria, whom I’d met some two years before in Vietnam.
I couldn’t quite believe my luck when Maria asked if I fancied watching...
