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How Sara Kolak Shocked the Olympics to Win Javelin Gold at 21

How Sara Kolak Shocked the Olympics to Win Javelin Gold at 21

by Benj Simmons | May 28, 2025 | Home, Relive carosel

In the world of athletics, there’s nothing more powerful than a competitor rising from obscurity to claim victory, especially when it’s a young athlete seizing their moment on the biggest stage. Few Olympic fans had 21-year-old Sara Kolak winning gold in the javelin...
How World Chase Tag Turned a Childhood Game Into a Global Competitive Sport

How World Chase Tag Turned a Childhood Game Into a Global Competitive Sport

by Dylan Sidhu | May 28, 2025 | Home, Unseen

Whether you’re a kid begging your parents to play for five more minutes, battling it out with your friends on the playground at school, or being forced into looking after a kid at the family function, we’ve spent hours playing the game that famously has no winner...
How the 2004 Boston Red Sox Pulled Off the Greatest Comeback in Baseball History

How the 2004 Boston Red Sox Pulled Off the Greatest Comeback in Baseball History

by Benj Simmons | May 28, 2025 | Home, Home Carosel, Relive carosel

In October 2004, the Boston Red Sox lifted their first World Series championship in 86 years. But it wasn’t just the title that fans and the baseball world would remember. It was the near-impossible road they took to get there. Three games into their American League...
Q&A: Sports Psychologist Professor Richard Thelwell: ‘Underdog victories keep alive the belief that anything can happen’

Q&A: Sports Psychologist Professor Richard Thelwell: ‘Underdog victories keep alive the belief that anything can happen’

by Jack Dean | May 23, 2025 | Home, Mindset Top Story

We all love a story with underdogs, but do we actually understand why? Sports Psychologist Professor Richard Thelwell explains what psychology says about why we route for an underdog. Why are people naturally drawn to underdogs in sport, even when the odds are stacked...
Billy Mills and the Greatest Olympic Upset You’ve Never Heard Of

Billy Mills and the Greatest Olympic Upset You’ve Never Heard Of

by Benj Simmons | May 22, 2025 | Relive carosel

The story of Billy Mills’ battles against loss, discrimination and uncertainty to become one of the most unexpected Olympic champions in 1964. Imagine your chances of victory being so slim, that once you had conquered every challenge in front of you to achieve the...
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