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Runners, swimmers, cyclists and animals: race them all against the Olympic champion at full speed
...It is one of a series taken by Irving Penn in 1997, and makes him look, he says, like “an insane Alan Bennett”....
...The final is on August 14 Katie Ledecky (USA) The American swimmer is undefeated in international racing since winning gold in the 800-metre freestyle in London as a 15-year-old, and currently holds the...
...He excelled as a swimmer at college in Ohio, becoming a national champion, and served as a Navy pilot on the domestic front during the second world war....
...In literature it has given us the Brontë sisters, JB Priestley, playwright Alan Bennett and poet Ted Hughes; in art, sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth and painter David Hockney; in music, composer...
...Alan Green, commenting on the women’s rowing gold on BBC radio, said through tears, “I love seeing people who aren’t consumed by ego having success.”...
...The South African sprinter made the comments after his surprise defeat in the 200m final, in which Brazil’s Alan Oliveira overtook him in the last 20m of the T44 category race....
...“Not everybody is an international celebrity,” says Alan Dickinson, chairman of the consultancy Sport2Business, which specialises in matching businesses with sports-people seeking employment....
...More broadly, as Alan Ruskin, macro strategist at Deutsche Bank, told the FT this week: “The geopolitical reach of this story is extensive and could go well beyond the Middle East”....
...That woman is Nell Leyshon, who seems to be handling the challenge (and attendant attention) with the chipper pluck of a swimmer breaking the ice before a dip....
...The interest in swimming of Ms Linton and business and life partner Alan Cooper is not just reflected in the company name....
...But what bad swimmers need is to be taught to do the things good swimmers do naturally. Bad swimmers must overcome their fear of water and learn to balance and float....
...The History Boys, scripted by Alan Bennett from his prizewinning National Theatre play and directed by the NT’s Nicholas Hytner, does all four things at different times....
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