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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
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Your four-legged friend is obviously top dog in your house, but do they have what it takes to be crowned Britain’s Next Top Dog? Find out by entering a new national photographic competition that not only celebrates our love for our canine companions and the joy they’ve given us during the past year, but will also raise vital funds for Cancer Research UK.
All you have to do is send in a photo of your beloved pet, and if they make it to the shortlist in one of six categories (see box below) they’ll be judged by a panel of eight celebrity dog-lovers: Graham Norton, Nigel Havers, Stephen Fry, Gabby Logan, Jeremy Vine, Jake Humphrey, Clare Balding and Saira Khan.