Slalom hills alive with sound of music
A CLASSICAL violinist and a singing Mexican prince are bringing glitz to the slalom slopes in Sochi.
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Jamaican bobsledders cool as ice
THEY were not quite Usain Bolt, but Jamaica’s fabled team was still the one to watch as the bobsleigh event opened at Sochi.
Pietersen break gives Cook a chance
IT is lambing season down on the farm and Alastair Cook will be thankful for the complete attention that farming demands.
‘Flying tomato’ upstaged by next generation
SHAUN White usually looks like a million dollars. In fact make that 40 million. But the snowboard pioneer was even upstaged by a 15-year-old.
KP saga reeks of mismanagement
WHAT a tawdry little tale this is.
Soft United hits bottom of barrel
DAVID Moyes could never have imagined his first season at Manchester United would have gone so badly.
Slow drip of poison killed KP’s career
IT was a slow loss of trust and faith from the leadership group and senior players which led to Kevin Pietersen’s downfall.
We’ll blow Gunners away, vows Rodgers
BRENDAN Rodgers believes Liverpool can bring its six-year wait for a home win against Arsenal to an end.
Putin’s $56bn Sochi gamble
UNDER a cloudless blue sky, a skier in a red training jacket hurtled backwards down one of the Olympic slopes towards a ramp guarded by a giant Russian doll.
Pietersen cut adrift
“TEAM spirit,” Steve Archibald, the former Tottenham Hotspur striker, said, “is an illusion glimpsed in the aftermath of victory”.
Sochi will hurt Putin, not elevate him
THE Sochi Olympics, Vladimir Putin’s $50 billion vanity project, may end up merely showcasing Russia’s many weaknesses.
KP’s talent worth the trouble
KEVIN Pietersen is a classic arsehole-genius; a man whose attitude and impossible nature make his team believe it is capable of anything.
Flower boom and bust predictable
IT is an accepted rule of political life that all careers, no matter what heights they might have touched, end in failure.
Murray’s rivers of gold to run
THE Scotsman’s business profile is being embossed .
Rafa’s futile heroics
AS he stared down his doom, Nadal was never more beautiful.
Sport marches on
DO you ever read the sports pages and wonder where it all went wrong?
A compelling season has broken out
IT has been a week for considering questions of space and time.
Kiwis make mockery of ICC proposals
BASED on antiquated methods of calculation, New Zealand beat India this week to complete a comprehensive series victory.
Buying title in rampaging style
THE biggest wage bill in the history of English football seems fractionally less absurd now.
The end of the world as we know it
AS a body, the ICC will not be missed.
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