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Dignity in defeat: Why Rafael Nadal is my favourite male athlete of 2024
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Right to the end of his career, Spain's Rafael Nadal was a modest athlete.
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Tell your kids stories about people as they grow up. Tell them about Aristotle, Madam Curie, Alexander the Great, Galileo, Muhammad Ali, Jane Austen. Tell them about achievers and adventurers, on horseback and in laboratories, who invented, conquered, were arrested and honoured.
But spare an hour one day to tell them also about lefty’s leaving.
