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The Olympics, its Shropshire origins and how one marathon runner gave up and went for a beer
From my armchair, I saluted the TV screen with an opened beer can and near blubbed with the pair as silver medals were draped round their necks. Yet the emotion was stirred by a sport, synchronised 10m diving, of which I have no comprehension. Ditto, …