By Ian McDonald | Sunday, August 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
Will any record ever go unbroken?
It seems impossible that Michael Phelps’s record of winning fourteen Olympic gold medals, with more to come in London in …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, August 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
In an article reviewing Kasia Boddy’s book Boxing: A Cultural History the American writer Joyce Carol Oates quotes from that dark, unsettling philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: …
By Ian McDonald | Sunday, August 3, 2008 | 0 Comments
An Olympic memory
I am the ultimate sports junkie. If games were abolished by some satanic world dictator I would be almost as lost as if …