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THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT

s a sports nerd, the age of the athletes I watched has been a marker for my own passage through time. As a teenager, every sports star was my elder: they were people to idolise, to aspire to be like, to even dream of emulating. Now, pushing 40, and at an age that most competitors in physical sports are lucky to make it beyond, they really do make you feel bloody

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