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What we really lose when we lose the sports pages
Always we need chroniclers of that most ancient of practices: Humans at play. Some newspapers are doing away with this, and that’s a tragedy.
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US skier Lindsey Vonn crashing during the women’s downhill race at the Winter Olympics on Feb 8. Sport can feel like an escape into an unreal world whose struggles are dramatic even if they rarely involve life and death, says the writer.
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A human ascends a 508m building of glass and girders wounded woman skis down a steep slope
Consider this any given fortnight’s offering of daring, anxiety, heartbreak, protest, persistence and calamity. Stuff of fairytales and tragedies and every other theatre you can imagine. Humans tilting at their limits. Histories which need to be chronicled. Feats which make your kids lace up their shoes and head out into the hopeful sun. Welcome to the sports pages. What the hell was Jeff Bezos, owner of The Washington Post,
