Rotterdam at Trafalgar Studios review: A touching and laugh-out-loud comedy about being transgender August 4, 2016 “Rotterdam is anywhere/anywhere alone” sang The Beautiful South back in the days of Britpop. Anywhere is right: the Dutch port city acts not only as a setting for this West End transfer, but also as a metaphor for transition, a halfway house where no one feels they truly belong. The story follows three British expats [...]
Rio 2016 Olympics: Wada and IOC come under fire from man who exposed Russia’s doping operation and Lance Armstrong August 4, 2016 The former chief investigator of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has launched a scathing attack on the leadership of the under-fire body on the eve of the Rio 2016 Olympics. Jack Robertson, who helped bring down Lance Armstrong and worked for the organisation until January, says he leaked details of Russian state-sponsored doping in order [...]
London 2012 gold medallist Andy Murray handed tricky opener as he begins Olympic Games title defence in Rio August 4, 2016 Britain's Andy Murray will begin his Olympic title defence against Serbia’s world No35 Viktor Troicki when the opening round of the tennis singles at the Rio Games get underway this weekend. London 2012 gold medallist Murray, who has been chosen as Team GB’s flagbearer for tonight’s opening ceremony, holds a 7-0 career record against Troicki, [...]
Exposure review: A cringe-inducing musical so awful it ascends like some horrible bird into a delirious realm of brilliant, unintentional comedy August 4, 2016 Like Chekhov’s prophetic gun above the mantle, any character who proudly shows off an ultrasound of their unborn son guarantees their own near-immediate demise. In this wonderfully terrible musical, a photographer barely has the foetal-snap out of his pocket before he’s bitten to death by snakes. His already grieving, prenatal son then explodes from rear [...]
Olympics betting: Chris Froome, Lizzie Armitstead and Adam Peaty to begin gold rush for Team GB August 4, 2016 While 2012 will go down as Team GB’s most golden Olympics, for a while it seemed as though it might be a damp squib. There were four and a half days of competition until a British athlete claimed the most coveted medal, when rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning started the gold rush. We shouldn’t [...]
Olympics betting: Rio carnival on the cards with record medals for Team GB August 4, 2016 Shares in coffee companies will likely nudge upwards over the next three weeks as the late night drama from the Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro keeps the country awake. Pollsters Opinium teamed up with Sporting Index this week and found that the UK will lose up to 302m hours of sleep watching Team GB cycle, [...]
Rio Olympics 2016: Must watch events on opening weekend and when to watch them – featuring British hopes Chris Froome and Lizzie Armistead as well as Olympic legend Michael Phelps August 4, 2016 Set your alarms, make your excuses and say any necessary good byes. Because the Olympics are here, and you have weeks of solid sport to gorge over. Here's what not to miss on opening weekend: Read more: City A.M. Unregulated Rio 50 special – Rio 2016 Olympics and sponsorship – which athletes are pulling in the big bucks? Friday [...]
City A.M. Unregulated Rio 50 special: Rio 2016 Olympics and sponsorship – which athletes are pulling in the big bucks? August 4, 2016 In a special edition of the Unregulated podcast, Emma Haslett and Frank Dalleres analyse City A.M.'s Rio 50 list of the most marketable athletes at the Rio Olympics and Paralympics. Jon Izzard, of sports sponsorship specialists Synergy, explains why brands want to work with athletes, who will earn the most from the Games… and why there are no Russians [...]
UK Anti-Doping lift Tyson Fury ban after confirming doping charge August 3, 2016 World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury will face an independent hearing over a UK Anti-Doping charge alleging the presence of a banned substance within a urine sample. UK Anti-Doping have confirmed that Fury had been provisionally banned in June, although the suspension was to be lifted pending a hearing in front of the National Anti-Doping panel. The [...]
Pakistan have the edge but should be very wary of gritty England and their new ball August 3, 2016 The pendulum is swinging Pakistan’s way. The tourists have the edge after day one of the third Investec Test at Edgbaston but the clash is well set. If England bowl well with the new ball tomorrow morning it will be very hard work for the tourists. There is no doubt, however, that Pakistan will be the [...]