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 | | | SPORTING BIOGRAPHIES YOU SHOULD HAVE READ BY NOW | | | Planning your holiday reading yet? Here's our pick of the most inspirational tales of sporting achievement | |
| By Andre Agassi
How do you get to be the best golden slam winner (four Opens plus the Olympics) in history? Hard work – for decades. From his beginnings hitting a thousand balls a day in his family's back yard to his brutal reinvention via lifting heavy iron, Agassi's painfully honest memoir will make you think twice before you begrudge any tennis superstar their next million-dollar endorsement.
Best line: "My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it… was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth. In that order." |
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| | By Ronda Rousey
She may have lost her UFC title now, but Rousey's book is still an air-punching tale of tenacity and triumph against all odds, highlighting the years of grind she went through – including nearly giving up fighting for good – before MMA mega-stardom hit. Part insight into life as a top athlete, part self-help book, it's also got a surprisingly decent cocktail recipe.
Best line: "You have to fight because you can't count on anyone else fighting for you. And you have to fight for people who can't fight for themselves. To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it." |
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| | | HITMAN: MY REAL LIFE IN THE WORLD OF CARTOON WRESTLING |
By Bret Hart
Bret Hart is wrestling royalty. Brought up in a family of grapplers by his father Stu (who kept a training "dungeon" in the family home), he went on to be one of the WWE's biggest draws… before being unceremoniously tricked out of his belt in a genuine double-cross operated by his grandstanding boss, Vince McMahon. In this handbook for dealing with authority, Hart stands up for what he believes in, and (most of the time) gets what he wants.
Best line: "Wrestling is as real and as fake as you think it is." |
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| INSECTS! | | | CONTINUING TO GET MORE PALATABLE | |
Face it: we'll all be eating insects sooner or later, whether it's within five years (President Trump accidentally pressing the button that destroys all cattle) or 30 (dregs of humanity confined to a Snowpiercer-like train traversing a frozen globe). The point is, you might as well get used to it now – and what better way than via the medium of cricket and mealworm flour, which doesn't actually have any tiny legs or wings in it to worry about.
Mophagy, the company making it, is already speaking with over 200 businesses across EU to put insect ingredients in their food, and also supports a charity called Farms For Orphans, helping orphaned children in Congo support themselves through farming insects for food. And once you've got the hang of making smoothies and baguettes from your powdered mealworm, you can graduate to the full thing with Mophagy's whole-roasted range. Mmm, chitinous.
Mophagy.com is shipping from May 1st – use the code MF10 at checkout for a 10% discount |
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 | | | 98 DAYS TO GO… | | | TIME TO GO OLYMPICS CRAZY | |
| | Remember the post-medal-blitz haze of 2012, when we were all going to get fit via the magic of table tennis and horse dancing? Whatever happened to that, eh? Well, regardless, with Rio now rapidly approaching the next three months are your best chance to acquire an armchair athlete's perspective on the Games before everyone starts pretending to know the difference between a whip back and a full pike. If possible, you should get down to the Lee Valley Velopark, where you can have a go at clipped-in track cycling or take on the remodelled Olympic BMX venue. If not, try a 2,000 metre row, a heavy clean and jerk or a really fast 5K run, just so you've got an idea of what our brave boys and girls are in for this summer. | |
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 | | | JUST HOW JACKED IS CAPTAIN AMERICA? | | | …AND COULD HE BEAT UP BATMAN? | | You'll no doubt be aware that Civil War comes out this weekend (and will have chosen a side), but there's another question comics fans have been taking sides over for decades… In a scrap between the First Avenger and the Caped Crusader, who would win? The scientific answer: probably Cap. He benches more (1,100lb to Batman's 1,000lb), runs faster (according to the Winter Soldier, he can hold a 26mph pace for half an hour) and has a vertical leap of at least three metres. On the other hand, Batman is the world's greatest tactician, has mastered 127 martial arts (depending on who you listen to) and always comes prepared. Our answer? In a fair fight, Cap takes it; in a no-holds barred match, it's all Bats. Please tailor your fanboyism accordingly. |  |
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