The Vereeniging Kart Club played host to the third round of the Firestone/Bridgestone National Karting Championships on August 21 and 22. Those who trekked out there were treated to a red-hot display of racing. A full programme provided for non-stop action.
Imagine that you juxtaposed photographs taken in the late Eighties, one of Ronald Reagan, the other of Frank Williams, one showing an intense scowling figure, the other a light-hearted joker. Eminent historian Frank Mclynn indicts the dour and ruthless head of the Williams team.
While a breakneck Arsenal overtake rivals in the record books, let’s hear it for the slowcoach. Even in his youth Dennis Bergkamp did not specialise in outstripping opponents and now that he is 35 the Dutchman is more suited than ever to being the still point in a side of incorrigible sprinters.
The lure of Old Trafford is simply too strong for most players and Sir Alex Ferguson invariably gets his man. Should they edge nearer to Everton’s valuation of Wayne Rooney ahead of the closure of the transfer window, the 18-year-old will surely be wearing a red shirt by the time he has recovered from the metatarsal fracture sustained at Euro 2004.
Gabriel Heinze, Manchester United’s costly yet elusive off-season signing, is running the serious risk of causing irreparable damage to his relationship with Sir Alex Ferguson after the latest breakdown in contact between the Argentinian international and his increasingly irritated manager.
There are two kinds of people in this world, according to the hit movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding: there are Greeks and those who wish they were Greek. The bad news is neither kind is queuing up to watch the Olympics in the Greek capital.
Perhaps the main reason for the lack of local support for the games is the embarrassment caused by successive drug stories.
Special Report: Olympics 2004
I think therefore I am, said Socrates, and he was right. Obviously times have changed, and today’s thinkers, people like Gene Roddenbery and Gnome Chomsky, are more insightful on the whole, but Socrates’s motto is still worth celebrating, as our capacity to think is what separates us from the animals.
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Tens of thousands joined a march in Dhaka on Thursday in honour of 20 people killed in a grenade attack on an opposition rally by suspected Islamic militants a week ago, officials said. About 30Â 000 opposition activists, barefoot and holding black flags, took part in the silent march held under tight security.
A grenade exploded at a crowded market in the north-eastern Assam state of India on Thursday, injuring seven people hours after two bomb blasts elsewhere in the state left four dead and 39 others wounded, police said. Suspected militants from the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom hurled the grenade at the market.