Nikolai Morton

A eulogy for a career: Rafael Nadal announces his retirement

With the sombrely expected news of Rafael Nadal’s imminent retirement after November’s Davis Cup, the sporting world feels disoriented, not just the tennis one. From his humble beginnings in Mallorca to his arrival in a highly select club of Career Golden Slam achievers, ‘Rafa’ has always epitomised greatness and humility...
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Posted Nov. 2, 2024

Fantasy football: A quick overview

After scoring a recent Premier League hat trick against Ipswich, Erling Haaland smugly asked his Instagram followers: “Did you triple captain me?” He was referring, of course, to fantasy football, the popular online game in which millions of managers field a team of league players on a weekly basis, competing...
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Posted Sep. 19, 2024

2024 Olympians with aura

The flame of the Paris Olympics has long ceased to burn and yet, its memorable individual stories won’t die down for years to come. After a closing ceremony which saw Hollywood megastar Tom Cruise glide down into the Stade de France to whisk the Olympic flag over to Los Angeles...
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Posted Aug. 27, 2024

What will Paris 2024 look like for Russian athletes?

The imminent Paris Olympics will mark the first Summer Games since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, an ongoing campaign which is supported by Belarus. A select number of Russian and Belarusian athletes have been cleared to compete in Paris as Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN) by the International Olympic...
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Posted Jul. 30, 2024

A decade on: Memories of the Brazil 2014 World Cup

A whole decade has now passed since the footballing world descended on the samba epicentre of the globe, Brazil, for a month of sporting magic. Back in 2014, Roy Hodgson was England manager, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard and Wayne Rooney were still at it, and Jude Bellingham was about to...
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Posted Jun. 10, 2024