Tennis
January 6th, 2013
By Nick Harris
SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year
6 January 2013
Andy Murray won his first title of 2013 by retaining the Brisbane International on Sunday but will need to achieve an unprecedented feat in the Open era of tennis if he is to add the Australian Open title this month.
The 25-year-old Scot won his first Grand Slam singles title at the US Open in 2012, having earlier won the Olympic singles title in his finest season to date.
But no male first-time Slam winner in the Open era has ever added a second Slam of their career in the next Slam event.
Murray...
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August 23rd, 2012
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 cent), including the British equestrian rider Carl Hester, in the team dressage. Hester was the only openly gay athlete among the 451 men and women in Team GB.
By definition, 23 people is a small sample size, but the fact that it's so small is part of the story. The...
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August 13th, 2012
By Nick Harris
SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year
13 August 2012
The past few days we've heard that Great Britain has enjoyed its best Olympic medal haul since 1908 but in relative terms London 2012 was much better for the hosts.
In 1908, there were only 2,008 competitors from 22 nations competing, and Britain provided a third of those by herself.
So one might reasonably have expected Britain to win a lot of the 110 gold medals on offer, on home turf and in home water, in events as varied as tug of war and motorboat racing.
Britain did indeed win lots of golds,...
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