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The fancy word for two concepts that don’t belong in the same sentence is ‘oxymoron’, such as ‘Love Island intellectuals’ or ‘GB News mass audience’.
‘Great British athletes’ was an oxymoron, not long ago. The nation was used to losing at football, getting trounced in cricket and utter humiliation at tennis.
Most of all, we expected disaster at the Olympics. We hadn’t enjoyed a good medals haul since 1924, the Chariots Of Fire games when runners Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell won golds.
Archive clips showed how dramatically that injection of funds benefited our young sports stars
Juego de dioses, París 1924; Carros de Fuego
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