The Great Gordino Newsletter – Oct 7th 2014
Hi, I hope all is well with you as we crack into October. Something I forgot to mention last week was the 60th anniversary of an icon. An icon certainly for London, and for Great Britain in general –...
View ArticleThe Great Gordino Newsletter – Nov 11th 2014
Hi, I hope all is well with you. I see in the news that Phil Rudd, drummer with ACDC was arrested on charges of trying to arrange a murder. That charge was later dropped, but he is still charged with...
View ArticleThe Great Gordino Newsletter – Feb 10th 2015
Hi, I hope all is well with you. Various things caught my eye this week, but all apart from one were things I have written about before… That in itself brings up a point well worth revisiting, in the...
View ArticleNow That The Boat Race Has Equality, Time To Sort The Heptathlon/Decathlon?
Hi, I hope all is well with you. Here’s an article I wrote about the election via Huffington Post: Now That The Boat Race Has Equality, Time To Sort The Heptathlon/Decathlon? I’d love your feedback,...
View ArticleAs The First European Games Open in Baku, Will There Ever Be A Second?
June 12th 2015, and the Opening Ceremony of the 1st European Games takes place in Azerbaijan, to much excitement – or did it..? Well yes, it did. It did take place, in front of nearly 70,000 spectators...
View ArticleDrugs Storm – Say It Ain’t So, Mo!
Mo Farah has been caught up in a classic athletics drugs storm. Except he hasn’t. Except he has. Oh please Mo, please say it ain’t so… Actually he already has said it ain’t! In fact it’s his *coach*...
View ArticleShould Caitlin Jenner Give Bruce Jenner’s Gold Medal Back?
When Caitlin Jenner was ‘unveiled’ with a front cover on Vanity Fair, it didn’t take long for a petition to emerge saying that the gold medal won by Bruce Jenner should be taken away. Jenner won Gold...
View ArticleWhy Dawn Fraser Was Wrong *And* Right About Nick Kyrgios
Australian swimming legend Dawn Fraser has apologised for remarks about tennis player Nick Kyrgios, but could it be she is right after all? Here’s the scene – Wimbledon 2015, and Australian Nick...
View ArticleAthletics In First Ever Drugs Storm – Er, Hardly!
August 2015, and the Sunday Times newspaper has run a big story, claiming that a database of blood tests from over 12,000 athletes shows 5,000 results which are suspicious. So, is this the first drugs...
View ArticleWhy Gary Lineker’s Wrong About The Olympics!
I don’t dislike Gary Lineker. I’m old enough to remember him banging in the goals as England came close to actually getting somewhere in the 1990 World Cup, and I was impressed by the way he put the...
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