Anyone who enjoys playing sport aspires to win and perform well. Sport is a great leveller; it humbles winners and makes winners out of losers. It keeps you healthy in both mind and body. The concept of Optimist World is to encourage everyone to take...
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It's a fact that one cigarette butt pollutes upwards of 1 cubic metre of water, a coke can takes over 200 years to decompose and even orange peel will not disappear in less than a year. All these items, and many more are found on ski slopes across...
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Ever since the success of the film of Billy Elliott, where a young working class lad from a rough, tough background ends up a top ballet dancer with The Royal Opera House, ballet for boys is no longer regarded as unacceptable. ...Read more >>
As a means of encouraging youngsters living in the local London Boroughs of Merton and Wandsworth to learn about tennis, The All England Lawn Tennis Club has instigated its very own Wimbledon Junior Tennis Initiative, which who knows could lead to...Read more >>
The aim of Chance to Shine cricket charity based appropriately at Lords Cricket Ground in North West London, and launched a couple of years ago, is to give youngsters of all ages, backgrounds, colours and creeds the opportunity to learn about a sp...Read more >>
Teenager Darius Knight took up table tennis more by accident than design but what it did for him was to help him escape from the crime and poverty of a drug ridden South East London council estate where he lived with his mother. ...Read more >>
There are certainly easier ways of getting around the globe – and doing so on two wheels wouldn't be everyone's chosen means of a world tour. But not for Mark Beaumont, the cosy comfort of an aircraft or even a train. Now he's celebr...Read more >>
Drawn to play against the world's number one Roger Federer in the first round of the ATP tennis tournament in Dubai, few expected the unseeded Murray to win but he surprised his detractors and did just that. ...Read more >>
The Canadian Bugaboos is one of world's most environmental conscience skiing areas which is why all keen heli-skiers are hell bent on protecting its environment. ...Read more >>
If ever there was ever an OPTIMIST, American tennis player James Blake fills that category. After the death of his inspirational father and a life threatening illness, against all kind of odds he achieved the near impossible. When he returned to tenn...Read more >>
Four years ago the Ski Club of Great Britain launched a campaign to help protect the environment by creating a website aptly called 'www. respectthemountain.' It's this initiative that has forced the skiing world to focus and face up to environmental...Read more >>
Giving underprivileged children the chance to learn to play tennis is one way to counteract the current obesity epidemic currently hitting this country. ...Read more >>
Tom Daley has booked his place at this year's Olympic Games in Beijing after winning 7th place in the World Championships in Beijing only Daley is all but thirteen years old and just eligible to compete ...Read more >>
The idea of playing a round of golf in the middle of a frozen
lake in Austria with snow drifts as bunkers and little round holes cut into the ice on 'white' greens was daunting enough but surprisingly it turned out to be one of my most exhilar...Read more >>
How many women have attempted to take up golf but given up through sheer frustration? I suspect quite a few. Too many private clubs refuse to give lessons to non-members and anyone not officially handicapped which is why I was pleasantly sur...Read more >>
On Monday 11th February, a group of Britain's young golf prodigies gathered at Dukes Meadow Golf Club, South West London to show off their skills under the watchful eye of top golfer Colin Montgomery.
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