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7,000 steps a day is the new 10,000 steps a day

James Porteous 10 September 2021 0 Comment

Although 10,000 steps a day are still good for you, new research shows that even 7,000 steps of even moderate speed are just as good. Photo: Kaspars Grinvalds/Shutterstock 09 September 2021 | Lindsay Bottoms...

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Tokyo 2020: The Best Olympic Games Ever?

James Porteous 8 August 2021 0 Comment

Photo: IOC – The 2020 summer Olympic Games in Japan (23 Jul-8 Aug, 2021) 08 August 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media The 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Japan (23 Jul-8 Aug, 2021). For the rest of...

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How a counter-movement in 1963 changed the Olympic Games forever

James Porteous 30 July 2021 0 Comment

Photo: Commemorative stamps of the “1st Games of the New Emerging Forces.” The 1964 Olympics in Tokyo banned all athletes who took part in a counter-competition a year earlier called the Games of the...

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Surfing’s Olympic Wave Whisperer

James Porteous 27 July 2021 0 Comment

Photo: Kurt Korte at Tsurigasaki Beach. “If we get to the end and we go, ‘Oh, no, the surf’s not very good,’ then I haven’t done my job.”Credit…James Hill for The New York Times Kurt...

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Tennis star Emma Raducanu

James Porteous 5 July 2021 0 Comment

Photo: Emma Raducanu became the youngest British woman to reach the fourth round of Wimbledon in the Open Era (Reuters Photo) 08 September 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media This page started out...

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Watch: How Fast Would an F1 Car Go at the Indy 500?

James Porteous 20 May 2021 0 Comment

20 May 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media After the pandemic chaos of last year, May 2021 is a Big Month for motorsports. In F1 the Monaco Grand Prix runs 23 May and Indycar’s Indianapolis...