I thought my life wouldn’t get any crazier after I competed at the Beijing Olympics, but I was wrong. Winning the world title in the 10 metres platform competition at the world diving championships has resulted in all kinds of amazing experiences, few of which I’m ever likely to forget.
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Kristan: It's been four long years since the last Winter Olympics in Turin but now, finally, the wait is almost over. The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games are almost upon us, with the Olympic bobsleigh track up in Whistler, which is like staging the football world cup in Brazil.
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The past year has flown by since I hung up my drivers' gloves and finally stopped being a Formula One racing driver. In the past 12 months since my final appearance at the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix I have become a father, a TV pundit for the BBC and, of...
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The World Heptathlon Champion, and one of the favourites to be crowned the BBC’s Sports Personality of the YearTo be named even in the shortlist of ten for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards is a great honour and something I would not have dreamt was possible this...
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It's been nine years since I last rowed a race in anger, the 2000 Sydney Olympics coxless fours final, and while it's nice that I am remembered for my five gold medals, and the fact that I continue to be busy in a host of projects, I am also aware...
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So, where on earth do I start? It's been sixteen months since I last played a competitive game of rugby, the Premiership final in which Wasps beat Leicester and, apart from the "Help for Heroes" match at Twickenham, I've not stepped on a rugby pitch since.
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First things first. My real name is Brent but at school I was known as Billy, as in Billy the Kid or Billy Bunter, the latter because I was always eating and am lucky to be the sort of person who can eat like a horse and stay slim.
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Ben Ainslie, CBE: Three-time Olympic gold medallist and captain of Team Origin, Britain’s America’s Cup boat.I’ve been on a bit of a book launch tour over the past couple of weeks which has thrown up all kinds of surprises.
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If my first love is gastronomy, then a close second is sport, and by sport I mean just about every sport. I am a big football fan, I love my golf, my rugby, my athletics and, one way or another, I have been associated with all of them.
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I had to sit out the world Twenty20 Cup in readiness for the Ashes series because, apparently, I don’t score quickly enough in this aspect of the game of cricket. That’s news to me, considering I hit an 80 off 50-odd balls for Essex the other week, an innings which...
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