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Celebrate the Paris Olympics with Manon Lagrève’s truffle croque monsieur recipe
All eyes will be on France as the Paris 2024 Olympics kicks off on July 26. While the athletes will be carefully watching their diets to maximise their performances, the rest of us can celebrate the Games by indulging in a bit of Parisian cuisine
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The Sheffield 100m sprinter heading to the Paris Olympics
Louie Hinchliffe insists he will head to Paris with no expectations but believing he can win after storming to the forefront of the British sprinting scene. The Sheffield athlete continued his dramatic rise under the coaching of Olympic great Carl
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The Open Water swimmer going for gold in the Olympics
By her own admission, swimmer Leah Crisp endured a ‘tough first year’ at the University of Bath in 2020/21. If relocating in the midst of a global pandemic wasn’t bad enough, an inauspicious start to university life was exacerbated when a freak accident
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The Dorset athletes going for gold in the Olympics and Paralympics
So far more than 10 individuals with links to Dorset have been named in their respective Team GB/ Paralympics GB squads. We introduce you to some of the athletes proudly flying the flag for Dorset in Paris this summer ‘When there’s light winds
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The Atherton athlete going for gold in the Olympics
Olympic gold hopeful Keely Hodgkinson has spoken out about the intense pressure and array of emotions involved in achieving success at such a young age. Hodgkinson defied everyone’s expectations when, at just 19 years old, she won the silver medal
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The Worcestershire swimmer going for gold in the Olympics
Matt Richards is embracing the weight of expectation at the Olympics as he insisted his mindset heading into Paris gives him an almost “invincible” aura. At the delayed Tokyo Games in 2021, Richards, then only 18, was the junior swimmer alongside
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The Lymington-born sailor setting sail for the Paris Olympics
It's been her dream since she was a teenager. But, after enduring injuries to her knee and back, as well as the disappointment of being de-selected from the British team at one point, sailor Hannah Snellgrove began to think she would never represent
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Peform at Latitude? Why not? says Damian Lewis
I'm standing by the lake in Henham Park, at the launch of this year's Latitude Festival, talking to some of the young bands who will be performing, when I look up and see a lone figure striding down the hill towards me. The bright sun is behind him
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The Matlock rower going for gold in the Olympics
‘I think it’s fair to say my PE teachers at school wouldn’t have expected me to go on and represent Great Britain at an Olympic Games,’ smiles rower Oli Wilkes, thinking back to his formative years at All Saints’ Primary and Highfields School in Matlock
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The Chorley swimmer going for a second gold in the Olympics
When swimmer Anna Hopkin from Chorley won gold at the Tokyo Games, Covid restrictions meant her parents couldn’t be there to celebrate. This summer they will be in Paris hoping to see her add to her medal collection. When she watched her
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The Otley born cyclist heading for her fourth Olympics in Paris
Lizzie Deignan waited by her phone all day to hear whether she had been selected to represent Great Britain for a fourth time at the Paris Olympic Games. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a dramatic, emotional phone call that broke the good news to the
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The best of boarding schools
Leighton Park School Leighton Park offers an exceptional values-led education for 11–18-year-old girls and boys, located next to the University of Reading. We were awarded Senior School of the Year in the national Independent Schools Association