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Britain’s champion whinger on track for Olympic success

‘I’ve written at least one letter a day to Lord Coe about this diabolical event,’ he said, ‘even though the cost of a second class stamp is bloody extortionate.’

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Posted: Aug 11th, 2012
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Cool kids ‘were right’ to mock future Olympic loser

Now that Kevin Burgess’s Olympic dream has fizzled out, he has been forced to concede that his schoolmates were quite right to label him a saddo gayer.

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Posted: Aug 7th, 2012
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London 2012 ‘proves austerity works’, declares Cameron

‘Just look at Jess Ennis, Mo Farah and that ginger lad – George Osborne has been cutting their funding like mad since we got in, and look what it did for them. Brilliant.’

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Posted: Aug 6th, 2012
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Late night giant Olympics screen row: hundreds fight over channel choice

Hundreds of viewers of the big screen on Clapham Common were involved in public disorder as yesterday night’s coverage of the Olympics due to a close, after a late night row over the crowd’s choice of viewing. “We were all coming back from the pub and most of us really wanted to switch over to ITV3 to watch the movie,” explained twenty eight viewers. “But a hard core still wanted to watch Gary Linneker interviewing some bloke about the archery or something. Boring.”

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Posted: Aug 5th, 2012
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Map makers thank athletes, musicians for putting towns on the map

up to 90% of UK towns 'unknown' before athletes got involvedIn 2008 Rebecca Adlington put Mansfield on the map with her heroics at the Beijing Olympics, filling a slightly embarrassing gap south of Sheffield. Now success from other British sports stars means that ‘at least 90% of the towns in Britain’ feature on road maps.

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Posted: Aug 4th, 2012
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