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Champagne, cocaine and some very long walks: when pedestrianism ruled the sporting world

Crowds once flocked to see ambling athletes pull off amazing feats of stamina. Edward Payson Weston was chief among them More than $1.4bn has been staked on prediction markets for this week’s US midterm elections, according to CNN. Though a lot of people are about to win – or lose – a lot of money, it’s hard to imagine any wagers as consequential as the election bet that birthed a sporting craze spearheaded by a chancer who walked and talked his way into becoming one of the greatest athletic stars of the 19th century. Continue reading...

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Watch trailer for Rivals: Fury v Joshua

Discover how Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua's contrasting styles, personalities and careers helped shape a rivalry that has captivated boxing fans for more than a decade.

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Don’t call it a remontada: Emery’s Camp Nou comeback focuses European blur

The expanded Champions League is often shapeless, but Aston Villa’s manager returning to the scene of his greatest trauma stands out “One more match. Just one more match.” Sure, Unai. Sure. Just like all the other matches that generated a local tremor measured at 1 on the Richter scale when that seventh and final goal went in at the Camp Nou in March 2017. It was inevitable that Unai Emery would be asked about the Remontada game on the eve of Aston Villa’s Champions League engagement with Barcelona, his own first trip back to the Camp Nou in this competition since one of the most visceral and

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‘I’ve been chased and shot at’: Denzel Bentley on trauma, street violence and brutal boxing politics

Stripped of his WBO world title and numbed by violent deaths of friends in Battersea, the middleweight is determined to press on in pursuit of fights and titles “I’ve been very reluctant to tell my story,” Denzel Bentley says as he sits upstairs at his gym in Essex and opens up about his testing life in and out of the ring. Before he addresses the latest maddening round of boxing politics, Bentley reveals how he has dealt with genuine catastrophe and trauma. This buried pain places boxing’s shenanigans into sobering perspective because so many of his friends have been murdered on the street. B

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