Which newspaper was instrumental in getting Zola Budd to compete for England
"Britain, clocking 14:48.07. The ""Daily Mail"", a British tabloid newspaper, persuaded Budd's father to encourage her to apply for British citizenship, on the grounds that her grandfather was British, to circumvent the international sporting boycott of South Africa, so that she could compete in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. With a strong push from the ""Daily Mail"", British citizenship was granted in short order and she moved to Guildford. Her application and arrival was controversial due to her acquiring a passport under preferential circumstances. Groups supporting the abolition of apartheid campaigned vociferously and effectively to highlight the special"
"of 8h6mins, earning a Bill Rowan Medal. In March 2015, Budd won the Run Hard Columbia (SC) Marathon, with a time of 3:05:27. In South Africa today, township taxis are nicknamed ""Zola Budd"" for their speed. The singer Brenda Fassie (whom ""Time"" magazine called ""the Madonna of the townships"" in 2001) had a hit single in the 1980s with her track ""Zola Budd"". On 20 July 2012 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a play by Richard Monks about the political and media actions taken to bring Zola Budd to Britain with her father at the age of 17, the script implying"
"Zola Budd Zola Pieterse (""née"" Budd; born 26 May 1966) is a middle-distance and long-distance runner. She competed at the 1984 Olympic Games for Great Britain and the 1992 Olympic Games for South Africa, both times in the 3000 metres. In 1984 (unratified) and 1985, she broke the world record in the women's 5000 metres. She was also a two-time winner at the World Cross Country Championships (1985–1986). Budd's career was unusual in that she mainly trained and raced barefoot. She moved with her family to South Carolina in 2008, and competes at marathons and ultramarathons. She volunteers as assistant"
"– Zola Budd is no myth."" In Britain, Budd trained at Freddie’s Aldershot, Farnham and District Athletics Club. In the 1984 Olympics, held in Los Angeles, California, the media billed the 3000 m race as a duel between Budd and American world champion Mary Decker, and few reported that a third contestant, Romanian Maricica Puică, had set the fastest time that year. Decker set a fast pace from the gun with Budd in close pursuit, followed by Puică and Britain's Wendy Smith-Sly. When the pace slowed just past the midway point, Budd took the lead on the straight and ran"
"she was unwilling and homesick. Zola Budd Zola Pieterse (""née"" Budd; born 26 May 1966) is a middle-distance and long-distance runner. She competed at the 1984 Olympic Games for Great Britain and the 1992 Olympic Games for South Africa, both times in the 3000 metres. In 1984 (unratified) and 1985, she broke the world record in the women's 5000 metres. She was also a two-time winner at the World Cross Country Championships (1985–1986). Budd's career was unusual in that she mainly trained and raced barefoot. She moved with her family to South Carolina in 2008, and competes at marathons and"
"in 1984 the 3000 and Marathon were new additions. World champion Mary Decker won the first heat to claim the new Olympic record. Maricica Puică improved upon the record in the third heat. South African teenager Zola Budd had controversially fast (through an agreement between her dad, Frank Budd and Daily Mail, London) obtained British citizenship to enter the Olympics. The Apartheid government of South Africa had been banned from worldwide competition. Budd had gained notoriety for beating the world record in the 5000 metres a year earlier in South Africa, a performance not recognized due to the ban. Budd,"
"David Bond (journalist) David Bond is an English journalist, best known for his position as sports editor of BBC News, from 2009-2014. Bond began his journalistic career on the ""South London Press"" covering Millwall F.C., the football club he supports. Bond then became sports news correspondent at the ""Sunday Times,"" before being appointed deputy sports editor at the ""Evening Standard."" Bond was appointed the BBC's Sport Editor in 2009, replacing Mihir Bose. Bond's reporting of the men's cycling road race at the London 2012 Olympics on 28 July attracted criticism from many viewers. After the race, in which British cyclists"
"Sporting Life (British newspaper) The Sporting Life was a British newspaper published from 1859 until 1998, best known for its coverage of horse racing and greyhound racing. Latterly it has continued as a multi-sports website. Priced at one penny, the ""Sporting Life"" initially appeared twice weekly, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. It became a daily newspaper in 1883, and in 1886 acquired its rival, ""Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle (est. 1822)"". In 1924 the newspaper sponsored the 1924 Women's Olympiad held at Stamford Bridge in London. The paper continued publication until its merger with the ""Racing Post"" in May"
"newspaper Hulton founded in 1871 with financial backing from Edward Overall Bleackley (1831–1898), a local cotton merchant. Sales were boosted by the decision of several local newspapers including ""The Manchester Guardian"" to restrict racing coverage to appease the growing anti-gambling sentiment in society. The ""Sporting Chronicle"", a broadsheet which specialised in horse racing and published starting price odds, became the first major national daily sporting newspaper. Its main competitor was the ""Sporting Life"" established in 1859. Writing as ""Kettledrum"", Hulton was also the ""Sporting Chronicle""'s tipster, and a tipping column was written by others under the same pseudonym until the"
"but that in the give and take of pack running, athletes learn to make allowances."" At first the US media sided with Decker, while the British press supported Budd. In 2002 the moment was ranked 93rd in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Sporting Moments. On an episode of ""Celebrity Come Dine with Me"", Budd stated that to this day that she has never seen footage of the collision. Budd competed internationally for the UK in 1985 and 1986. In February 1985, she was World Cross Country Champion (beating Ingrid Kristiansen), but then went on to several track defeats. The most significant"
"African teenage runner Zola Budd. In 1985, Magubane spent time in hospital recovering from buckshot wounds received when he was caught in police crossfire at a funeral near Johannesburg. In 2006, the South African Post Office issued a miniature sheet, commemorative envelope and a special canceller on National Women's Day. This commemorates the march on 9 August 1956 when 20,000 women from all parts of South Africa staged a second march on the Union Buildings to protest against the pass laws. They left petitions containing more than 100,000 signatures at the Prime Minister's door. The photograph used on the miniature"
"(and informally as Hopper's). At Winchester, Bland obtained four A*s, three A's and two B's at GCSE, followed by Emmanuel College, Cambridge, at which he became the editor of ""Varsity"", the student newspaper of the university. He was named Guardian Student Columnist of the Year in 2004 (part of the Guardian Student Media Award), for his work as ""Varsity""'s Editor, and elected to a ""Senior Exhibition"" in the years 2004 – 2005, gaining a First in English Literature (BA). He received the Fulbright Alistair Cooke Award in Journalism (part of the Fulbright Program) for 2006-7, a scholarship which enabled him"
"by the pace of modern electronic media - would produce special results editions rushed out on Saturday evenings. Some newspapers, such as ""The Sunday Times"", with 1924 Olympic 100 metres champion Harold Abrahams, or the London ""Evening News"" using former England cricket captain Sir Leonard Hutton, began to adopt the policy of hiring former sports stars to pen columns, which were often ghost written. Some such ghosted columns, however, did little to further the reputation of sports journalism, which is increasingly becoming the subject of academic scrutiny of its standards. Many ""ghosted"" columns were often run by independent sports agencies,"
"was later renamed the Independent Press Standards Organisation, deemed the paper's brief article about the death of Norman Woollass's son broke clause 5: Intrusion into grief and shock. The editor published an apology to the complainant. In October 2013, the Goole Times published a picture of Sacha Baron Cohen while portraying the character Borat instead of the new Goole AFC owner Baron Bloom. Goole Times The Goole Times is a weekly newspaper for Goole, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It is the oldest and longest serving weekly newspaper in the county of Yorkshire. The Goole Times was established in"
"in 1966, but had been passed by 1970. Zola Budd's time for the women's 5,000m in January 1984 was not ratified as a world record because it was outside the auspices of the IAAF. In the 1970 Chess Olympiad, a number of players and teams protested against South Africa's inclusion, some withdrawing themselves, and the Albanian team forfeited its match against the South African team. South Africa were expelled from FIDE while participating in the 1974 Chess Olympiad, finally returning to international competition in the 1992 Chess Olympiad. Cricket had been organised on racial lines in South Africa from its"
"feature of the paper was the classified advertisements, which in reality were a series of short advertisements for massage parlours and escort services across the country. In later years, the classified adverts had also become a place for swingers to advertise. The ""Daily Sport"" pioneered the football crossword in the United Kingdom. The soccer crossword positioned in the back pages alongside the football journalists reports was unique in the fact that the clues were solely devoted to questions which related to the country's national game. After two years of his work appearing in the ""Daily Sport"" the grid also became"
"for a number of talented young journalists under the direction of editors Michael Hand and Rory Godson, and news editor Colin Kerr. These included Patricia Deevy, Diarmuid Doyle, Ursula Halligan, Nicola Byrne, Ronan Price, Richard Balls, Paul Howard, Colm Murphy, Brendan Fanning, Conn O Midheach and Ed O'Loughlin who was on the shortlist for the Booker Prize for his novel ""Not Untrue And Not Unkind"". The ""Sunday Tribune"" was saved from bankruptcy by Tony O'Reilly's Independent News and Media (then called Independent Newspapers plc), which acquired a 29.9 per cent stake in the company. Even before the investment the relationship"
"Bell's Life in London Bell's Life in London, and Sporting Chronicle was an English weekly sporting paper published as a pink broadsheet between 1822 and 1886. ""Bell's Life"" was founded by Robert Bell, a London printer-publisher. Bell sold it to William Innell Clement, owner of ""The Observer"", in 1824 or 1825, and the paper swallowed up a competitor, ""Pierce Egan's Life in London and Sporting Guide"". From 1824 to 1852 it was edited by Vincent George Dowling, ""during which time ""Bell's Life"" became Britain's leading sporting newspaper, without which no gentleman's Sunday was quite complete"". Dowling's son, Frank Lewis Dowling,"
"came too late. Contributors included: Bell's Life in London Bell's Life in London, and Sporting Chronicle was an English weekly sporting paper published as a pink broadsheet between 1822 and 1886. ""Bell's Life"" was founded by Robert Bell, a London printer-publisher. Bell sold it to William Innell Clement, owner of ""The Observer"", in 1824 or 1825, and the paper swallowed up a competitor, ""Pierce Egan's Life in London and Sporting Guide"". From 1824 to 1852 it was edited by Vincent George Dowling, ""during which time ""Bell's Life"" became Britain's leading sporting newspaper, without which no gentleman's Sunday was quite complete""."
"Sporting Chronicle The Sporting Chronicle, known colloquially as The Chron, was a Manchester-based, daily, national horse racing newspaper which operated in Great Britain for 112 years until its closure in 1983 due to unsustainable losses (£5.8 million since 1975). The last edition was published on 23 July of that year. It was established in 1871 by Edward ""Ned"" Hulton, who founded other newspapers including the ""Athletic News"" which merged with the ""Sporting Chronicle"" in 1931 and the ""Sunday Chronicle"", and whose son Edward Hulton founded the ""Manchester Evening Chronicle"" and the ""Daily Dispatch"". By 1883, it had a daily readership"
"Lobby Lud Lobby Lud is a fictional character created in August 1927 by the ""Westminster Gazette"", a British newspaper, now defunct. The character was used in readers' prize competitions during the summer period. Anonymous employees visited seaside resorts and afterwards wrote down a detailed description of the town they visited, without giving away its name. They also described a person they happened to see that day and declared him to be the ""Lobby Lud"" of that issue. Readers were given a pass phrase and had to try and guess both the location and the person described by the reporters. Anyone"
"La Gazzetta dello Sport La Gazzetta dello Sport (The Sports Gazette) is an Italian daily newspaper dedicated to coverage of various sports. It is the most widely read daily newspaper in Italy as of 2016. ""La Gazzetta dello Sport"" was founded by Alberto Bonacossa. The first issue was published on 3 April 1896, on time to cover the first modern Olympic Games held in Athens. The paper is based in Milan. Its role extends beyond news reporting and features, to direct involvement in major events, including (since 1909) the organization of the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) cycling stage race."
"Edward Hulton (senior) Edward ""Ned"" Hulton (1838–1904) was a British newspaper proprietor in Victorian Manchester. Born the son of a weaver, he was an entrepreneur who established a vast newspaper empire and was the progenitor of a publishing dynasty. Hulton was born in Manchester in 1838, the son of a weaver. While working as a compositor for ""The Manchester Guardian"" (now known as ""The Guardian""), he earned extra income publishing the ""Sporting Bell"", a popular local horse racing tip sheet, under a pseudonym named after Kettledrum, the 1861 Epsom Derby winner. The ""Sporting Bell"" ultimately grew into the ""Sporting Chronicle"""
"a small suburb town of Hull in Yorkshire, England. When she was a petite teenager growing-up she regularly saw photos of boxing matches in the sports section of the newspapers. She was instantly hooked. She was inspired to fight after reading of the exploits of Polly Fairclough, who was active in boxing at the early part of the twentieth-century. By chance she was given a piece of newspaper to clean her muddy boots on arriving home from soccer, when she spotted the article. It intrigued her, and it would change the course of her life. At 18 she moved to"
"Deputy Editor of Conrad Black's new national newspaper The National Post. The launch of the Post started one of the most costly and intense newspaper wars in North America. Newland was educated at Downside School, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Goldsmith's College at the University of London, where he took a BA in History and Heythrop College (also at the University of London), where he took an MA in Theology. Newland worked to preserve the ""Daily Telegraph"" when it was purchased in June 2004 from Hollinger International by the Barclay brothers, owners of ""The Scotsman"" newspaper and ""The Business"" magazine."
"to England. He was managing director of The Sunday Times, The Referee and the Arrow and was the leading Rugby League and Cricket journalist of his era. Colbert joined The Sun and The Sun-Herald as the Sports Director in 1923, and retained that position until his death in 1944. As a journalist he was involved in the Bodyline controversy, and was responsible for reporting the story of Bill Woodfull's confrontation with Pelham Warner which was leaked during the third Test. A memorial trophy awarded at Anglo-Australian Test matches held in Australia is named after him. His brother, Harold Corbett also"
"Tom Kelly, who went on to be head of the Association of British Bookmakers. The ""Sporting Chronicle"" was a pioneer of tipsters, one of the first being ""Kettledrum"", a pseudonym for Hulton himself. The paper also published an annual. Sporting Chronicle® Sporting Chronicle The Sporting Chronicle, known colloquially as The Chron, was a Manchester-based, daily, national horse racing newspaper which operated in Great Britain for 112 years until its closure in 1983 due to unsustainable losses (£5.8 million since 1975). The last edition was published on 23 July of that year. It was established in 1871 by Edward ""Ned"" Hulton,"
"from The Times in 1976 after nearly 40 years of distinguished service. Newspapers were printed out of Manchester until the late 1960s and coincidentally Sir Matt Busby's Manchester United were pioneering the cause to inject youth into football thereby creating a family atmosphere in the stands and no wonder that Green like many of his peers who frequented there, became inspired by their young, precocious team. The chief reason for being captivated was the healthy line of talented young players who came through the Youth Academy at Manchester United - Duncan Edwards, Sir Bobby Charlton and George Best. And it"
"the 1982 FIFA World Cup for CKEY (AM) in Toronto. Budd worked, from 2002 until his death, as a soccer analyst on The Score's The Footy Show. From 2006, Budd also worked in sales management for InBev, owners of Labatt Brewing Company. From 1977 to 1979, Budd won three straight ""Canadian Superstars"" competitions. His Canadian victories earned Budd a spot, in those years, in the annual ""World Superstars"" contests, produced by U.S. broadcaster ABC Sports, which Budd won each time. Budd was an excellent all-rounder, doing well in each event that he competed. Budd's total winnings from the Canadian and"
"at the newly literate working classes. It quickly established itself as a purveyor of titillation, shock, and criminal news. Much of the source material came from coverage of vice prosecutions, including transcripts of police descriptions of alleged brothels, streetwalkers, and ""immoral"" women. In 1924 the newspaper sponsored the 1924 Women's Olympiad held at Stamford Bridge in London. Before long, the ""News of the World"" established itself as the most widely read Sunday paper, with initial sales of around 12,000 copies a week. Sales then suffered because the price was not cut following the abolition of newspaper taxes and the paper"
"The newspaper struck a reported £2.25 million deal with sportswear manufacturer Adidas to run cover wrap adverts on each of the 17 days of the Olympics. After more than a decade in charge, editor Kenny Campbell was replaced as editor by Ted Young in 2014. Young's appointment coincided with a number of changes at the newspaper, including the separation of the print and online editions, along with an expansion of ""Metro""'s distribution in the UK. In November 2016, comedian Richard Herring stepped down from writing his weekly column for ""Metro"". Fellow TV comedian Dom Joly later replaced him in the"
"condition, the original Ashes urn is not presented to the winning team; instead a Waterford Crystal trophy (first presented in 1999) and replica urns are presented. The ""Sporting Times""<nowiki>'</nowiki> mock-obituary has been caricatured many times, notably by Australia's ""Daily Telegraph"" in describing Australia’s series loss to South Africa at the MCG in 2008: RIP, Australian Cricket, slaughtered by South Africa, December 30 at the MCG, aided and abetted by incompetent selectors, inept batting, impotent bowling, dreadful catching, poor captaincy.” The Sporting Times The Sporting Times (founded 1865, ceased publication 1932) was a weekly British newspaper devoted chiefly to sport, and"
"its competitors included ""The Field"", ""The Sportsman"", the ""Sporting Life"", and ""Bell's Life in London"". According to Alexander Andrews's ""Chapters in the History of British Journalism"", the paper thrived ""less upon its racing news than upon its profusion of coarse and scurrilous scraps of tittle-tattle, representing 'society journalism' in its most degraded form"". In the 1870s the chess column of ""The Sporting Times"" was written by John Wisker (1846–1884), winner of the 1870 British Chess Championship. On 14 September 1889 the magazine ""Vanity Fair"" carried one of its caricatures, printed in colour, of ""The Sporting Times"" editor John Corlett, subtitled"