Sport Category
Real Tennis
Real tennis, or just ‘tennis’ to its aficionados, came long before lawn tennis, but is a rather…
Golf
The origins of golf lie in fifteenth-century Scotland, particularly the St. Andrews and Edinburgh areas. It is…
Cowes Week
Cowes Week takes place every year at the beginning of August and is based at the small…
The Boat Race
Aside from being Cockney rhyming slang for ‘face’, the Boat Race is a traditional sporting competition between…
Welly wanging
This is a sport, honestly. The ordinary welly, or Wellington boot, has predecessors going back to the…
Water skiing
The sport of water skiing was invented in 1922 in the USA and Americans have certainly been…
Bobby Moore
Robert Frederick Chelsea (Bobby) Moore (1941-93) was born in Essex during a German bombing raid and was to…
Hockey
The team game of hockey, or ‘field hockey’, has been played in its modern form in British…
Isle of Man TT
The Isle of Man, a Crown Dependency, has hosted the world’s fastest and most dangerous road race…
Sir Mo Farah
Britain’s most successful athlete, Sir Mo Farah, CBE, was born in Somaliland in 1983 but came to…
Sir Nick Faldo
Sir Nick (Nicholas Alexander) Faldo was born in 1957 in Hertfordshire and is the most successful British…
Horse racing
Horse racing is a sport largely enjoyed for its betting possibilities. It is subject to the regulations…