Monday, 1 March 2021
The old insult about fans with typewriters was not coined without reason. As a member of the press - I believe I may still use that term? - you are supposed to report the truth - I believe this concept still exists? - without bias. Or at least to try.
What tests that icy impartiality in the sporting arena is usually nationality, sometimes affinity, sometimes both. So it was understandable that there was a special exultation in the success of British high jumper Dalton Grant at the Paris European Athletics Indoor Championships of 1994.
As European athletes prepare for the 36