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Get on your bike in style – we review new cycling gear
The success of the Boris Bikes scheme has highlighted the popularity of cycling in the city, but what to wear on the way to work to arrive in a fit state for the day? Oliver Pickup [...]
Meet footballing legend Pelé
Footballing king Pelé will be in the capital this weekend. And you have the chance to meet him [...]
Tim Lovejoy makes a racquet about tennis
Until last year, Tim Lovejoy's interest in tennis was confined to the armchair. But a free lesson saw him fall head-over-heels for the game, as he tells Oliver Pickup [...]
Ping when you’re winning
Boris Johnson famously announced at the close of the Beijing Olympics that it was the Victorians – not the Chinese – who invented ping pong, and that “wiff-waff” was a parlour game played on grand dining [...]
