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This Winter Olympics, don’t knock our fearless Fridge Kids

27 January 2018

9:00 AM

27 January 2018

9:00 AM

At this time of the year, well-meaning folk of otherwise sound mind start to get very sniffy about the impending Winter Olympics. Well, time to pipe down. Sure, we don’t have that many mountains, and we don’t have a great tradition of professional downhill racing (though we have some brilliant amateurs — after all we Brits more or less invented ski-racing in the 1920s).

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