Japan’s Kei Nishikori stunned an exhausted Rafael Nadal to win the bronze medal in the men’s singles at the Rio Games. Having lost to Britain’s defending champion Andy Murray, the Japanese player was not going home without a medal, and he overcame Nadal 6-2 6-7(1) 6-3 to claim bronze, his...
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Max Whitlock has won two Olympic gold medals in one day, ending Great Britain’s gymnastics medals drought with victory in the men’s pommel horse and floor events. The gymnast added to the bronze he picked up in the all-around event earlier this week. Whitlock’s day began with the floor. He...
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Spain’s Rafael Nadal and Marc Lopez secured gold in a thrilling tennis doubles match against Romania’s Florin Mergea and Horia Tecau. Nadal’s second Olympic gold, after a singles win at Beijing 2008, came after he and his compatriot defeated the Romanians 6-2 3-6 6-4 in a gruelling match that lasted...
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Sir Bradley Wiggins became Great Britain’s most decorated Olympian as the men’s team pursuit smashed their own world record twice on the way to gold. It is Sir Bradley’s fifth Olympic gold, putting his level with Sir Steve Redgrave, and a British record eighth medal. His teammate Ed Clancy also...
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Swiss cycling legend Fabian Cancellara won his second Olympic gold medal in the men’s time trial, capping off his career with a golden farewell. At 35 years of age and with retirement looming at the end of the season, a repeat of his Beijing 2008 triumph looked incredibly unlikely. However,...
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Ten years ago, the final episode of The West Wing aired – it is widely considered one of the best American TV dramas ever made, and its legacy lasts to this day. Having just finished watching it, I want to think about why it was so popular and important. The...
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Sure, everybody loves heroes, but there’s a reason that the villains tend to be the more popular characters – villains have a chance to let loose, to be bad with gay abandon. Assemble a team of villains, then, and that’s pretty much assuring a hit, right? After all, making an...
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The other night, I was the cinema watching a quiet film, and the atmosphere was absolutely ruined by the fact that the two people in front of me were very noisily eating popcorn. As I left the cinema, it got me thinking – why is popcorn the food that we...
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After the recent vote to approve the renewal of the submarines carrying Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent, we decided to pit two Science & Tech writers against each other to answer a simple question: Should Science be used to kill people? Reece Goodall says YES: As the government pushes a vote to...
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Professor Perkins, co-founder of University of Warwick’s Film Department passed away on 15th July, 2016. Professor Perkins started teaching at the University of Warwick in 1978 and went on to form Warwick’s Film Department which soon topped UK’s league tables for Film Studies. He is known, both nationally and internationally, for...
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The Secret Life of Pets deals with what happens when you leave your pets at home, and it fashions a playful and fun tale out of it. It’s not anything particularly ground-breaking, but it propels itself forward with such enjoyable momentum and with a lot of gags (most of which...
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Now You See Me was a shock hit a few summers ago – a magic-based heist movie, it was slated by critics but audiences were happy to love themselves in the fun of it. Now You See Me 2 will be lucky if it manages to find the same level...
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