Book review – sporting history

Looking idiotic: Cathy Fechoz performs ski ballet at the Olympic Games, Albertville, 1992. The sport no longer exists

Anyone for ice tennis?

18 July 2015 9:00 am

Scholarship for its own sake has rather gone out of fashion, although I’m sure Spectator readers would be the last…

Lords of the ring

30 August 2014 9:00 am

The early 1970s was a good time for heavyweight boxing. Indeed, it was probably the last truly great age for…

The green opium of the people

2 August 2014 9:00 am

I was in Shanghai interviewing a Chinese film director and an actor. We were discussing government censorship. How did anyone…