Our other great sprinter of the past Kathy Smallwood Cook lost a shed load of medals to East Germans and other questionable Eastern Europeans. As the Supreme Court put it, ‘Citizens should not feel that unreasonable mistakes made by the police are left unchecked or that the police are not held accountable for such mistakes’.

David Emery The Rugby Paper Journalist died after suffering a

In his rush to make the right impression, it escaped his notice that the long jump pit was under repair. To spend nearly 40 years in the editor’s chair is surely unprecedented in British sports journalism – supporting, encouraging, cajoling and inspiring generation after generation of sports reporters in the process, underlined by the tributes that have followed the news of his passing. In July 2016, Emery was chosen to run for a Maine State Senate seat against incumbent Democrat David Miramant of Camden.

There were those lunches in that Chinese restaurant across the road from the Express, for which we span the wheel to see who would pay the bill. The Stoke Sentinel reported Mr Emery had fallen asleep downstairs at around midnight, and was found "face down" on the floor the next morning.

When I needed a helping hand… - The Rugby Paper

If someone came over to me and asked if I knew David Emery, I would probably have been like, 'who's that? I trust therefore he would approve of this little tribute, at least in style, if not the gushing substance. After leaving the Express, he launched Sport First in March 1998, billed as Britain’s answer to L’Equipe and La Gazzetta dello Sport.The teenaged athlete let it be known to anyone who cared to listen that he was already on a precarious flight path towards an Olympic medal. Even more puzzling is TikTok micro-influencer Hannah, with a jumble of hot takes that wouldn’t be out of place if heard while storming the Capitol. Eventually narrowly beaten by John Conteh, Hemery then went on to the 1975 European contest where he was beaten again, this time by Ties Kruize. Our serialisation on Agassi, the man, the enigma, ran for four days before Wimbledon over two-page spreads on the feature pages.