Olympics
Olympic-tastic: Jess and Mo stick two fingers up to the anti-mixed race, anti-Muslim Mail
Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah stuck two fingers up to the anti-mixed race, anti-Muslim Mail and bigots like Aidan Burley MP with their Olympic golds last night.
Yaping Deng: The world’s most successful table tennis player
Yaping Deng - a 4' 11" woman from China - has more titles in table tennis than any other athlete.
Comment: We should all get behind female Olympians – and here’s how
London 2012 offers a unique opportunity to promote women’s participation in sports and inspire a next generation of female Olympians.
Derartu Tulu: The first black African woman to win an Olympic gold medal
Many remember Tulu for the victory lap she took in 1992; a symbolic gesture that signalled the end of Apartheid on the track.
Nawal El Moutawakel: The first female Muslim Olympic champion
Nawal El Moutawakel: “I would wake up in the morning and say, I need to do this for the women of Arab states, African countries and Muslim women.”
Surprised at Boris’s Olympic invite to Murdoch? Don’t be – he’s his biggest fan
Boris Johnson, drunk on the power of being London Mayor at the time of our Games, has invited Rupert Murdoch to the Olympic swimming this Friday.