Super Saturday is consistently voted at the No. 1 sporting achievement by British Sports fans. It wasn’t the fact that British athletes won gold medals, it was the number and timing of them. During the evening of Saturday August 4, in London’s Olympic stadium in front of 80,000 spectators, plus a large proportion of the… Continue reading Super Saturday
Month: October 2026
Playoffs – Love them or Hate them.
A playoff is typically a one off game to decide a winner or the entitlement to some other benefit, progressing to the next round, entry into a competition or a higher league. The notion of a playoff causes a lot of debate. When a team may have been the better team all season in league… Continue reading Playoffs – Love them or Hate them.
The Med Student
(The 4 Minute Mile) It was once thought that no human could run a mile in less than 4 minutes. A mile is 1.61 kilometers in distance. So that’s 4 laps full laps of a modern era athletics track, plus a further 9.34 metres. Accurate times for running the mile were not recorded until after 1850,… Continue reading The Med Student