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Michelle Mone’s Monbeg Genius still on track to line up at Grand National

Monbeg Genius among favourites for Aintree race on 13 AprilRacing Post says win could ‘cause significant damage to racing’ Monbeg Genius, the horse owned by the couple at the heart of the PPE scandal, the Conservative peer Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman, remains on course to line up as one of the favourites […]

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Carl Lewis derides plans to eradicate long jump fouls as early ‘April Fools joke’

Plan to eliminate foul jumps to be trialled this yearOlympic champion says it will take key skill away from event A plan to eliminate foul jumps from the long jump event has been criticised as an “April Fools joke” by the four-time Olympic champion Carl Lewis. The World Athletics CEO, Jon Ridgeon, confirmed that changes

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Football Daily | Another one bites the dust at Sunderland in Championship circus

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! The first two series of Sunderland ‘Til I Die were epic. Car-crash documentary television at its finest, full of real-life characters with self-awareness levels so low they would put Alan Partridge or Richard Keys to shame [EDM continues]. But as every footy-doc fan

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Eight-year-old becomes youngest chess player to beat grandmaster

Ashwath Kaushik of Singapore defeats 37-year-old grandmaster, beating record set days before by another eight-year-old An eight-year-old chess prodigy from Singapore has become the youngest chess player to beat a grandmaster. After a three-hour game of chess at Switzerland’s Burgdorfer Stadthaus-Open, Ashwath Kaushik – who is eight and six months – beat the 37-year-old Polish

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