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By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 August 2012 There were 23 openly gay athletes across all sports at the London 2012 Olympic Games according to observers who monitor such trends closely, notably Outsports.com. Ten of them won medals (43 per cent) and seven of them won gold medals (30.4 per […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 20 August 2012 . The 2012-13 Premier League kicked off at the weekend and this is what it looked like: Each flag on the graphic represents one player involved in one of the nine Premier League games played on Saturday and Sunday, from Arsenal’s Polish […]

* ALEXANDRA WILLIS is a multimedia tennis journalist who flits between Wimbledon, SportingIntelligence, the TennisSpace and a few other outlets, while tweeting copiously and trying to improve her backhand in her spare time. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you that she went to Oxford (and not just shopping). . . By Alexandra Willis […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 12 August 2012 In 1999, I met a 16-year-old kid called Mo who said it would mean a great deal to run for Britain. He was one of 110 promising British youngsters at an ‘Olympic futures’ training camp in Florida. I was reporting on it […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 26 July 2012 Over the next day or so it is almost certain that you will see or hear somebody claim that the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics will be watched by a global audience of billions. That’s bollocks. It won’t be. Even […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 July 2012 BRITAIN cares so much about the GB Olympic football team that after London 2012 it will be disbanded and will never play again. There has been no GB involvement in Olympic football since Britain failed to qualify for the 1972 Games in […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 7 June 2012 WHEN Manchester United announced last week that they had 659 million followers and are thus “the most popular club in the most popular sport in the world”, the figures were met with widespread scepticism, even derision. But I can only speak for […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 14 May 2012 Money has helped to fuel success as long as the English football league has existed – so that’s about 124 years. So while saying that Manchester City bought the 2011-12 Premier League title is true (they would not have done it without […]

. THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon reflects on the British Olympic […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 29 April 2012 I have been trying for much of the day, and failing, to write a proper tribute to Khalil Dale, my friend of 23 years, murdered in Pakistan. We were at university together, shared a flat, played football (I persuaded him just the […]