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She was America's teenage surfing sensation - at just 13. Then she lost her arm in a shark attack. Now Bethany Hamilton is surfing again. Duncan Campbell examines the burgeoning Bethany industry.
Athletes who came back after an accident
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Interview
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The locks are gone but the love of sexy football remains. As Ruud Gullit takes up the reins at Feyenoord, Simon Garfield meets the outspoken manager in Amsterdam to find out what he now thinks about Chelsea and Newcastle, what it was like to interview Victoria Beckham - and whether he is as arrogant as his critics think.
Total success
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Drugs in sport
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Inside the drugs cabinet
Vivian James, emeritus professor of chemical pathology at the university of London and chair of UK sport's Nandrolone Review Committee, on the highs and lows of performance enhancing drugs.
Drugs in sport: a brief history
Flo-Jo: tarnished star of the track
Editorial: Pursuit of perfection
The accused
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More features
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Honey, I stole the kids
Riddick Bowe, one of the greatest fighters of the Nineties, now languishes in a US jail. Jamie Jackson met him there and learnt the disturbing truth about the family break-up that wrecked his life - and why he wants one last shot at the heavyweight crown.
How good was Riddick Bowe?
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Enough already
Novelist Geoff Dyer learnt the basics of tennis from his dad on a public court. Thirty years on, we sent him to Spain for intensive tuition. There he discovered that an alpha male attitude will get you only so far: because if you want to change your game, you'll have to change your life.
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That's my boy ...
Jackie Kallen isn't your average fight boss. She doesn't smoke cigars, for a start.
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The man for all seasons
Novelist DJ Taylor saw players come and go as Norwich City hit unexpected highs and more predictable lows in the past decade. But one remained - until now.
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The sports column
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My Indian summer
Ed Smith: Twelve months ago, in search of a giant leap forward, I flew to India to practise for three weeks in Bombay.
Second thoughts
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OSM 10
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The ten strangest sporting deaths
Payne Stewart | Phar Lap | Sonny Liston | Ed Delahanty | Fausto Coppi | Hansie Cronje | Vitas Gerulaitis | Mal 'King Kong' Kirk | Freddie Mills | Rod Hull
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Rationale
This month's 10 was selected by Graeme Thomson. Here he justifies his choice.
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Last month's 10
The ten most preposterous opening ceremonies.
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Regulars
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Flight of fancy
The Tunisians might be able to organise a great opening ceremony, but that won't help their bid to host the 2010 World cup, reports Brian Oliver.
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Triumph and despair
When serious injury threatened to end his rugby career, the tough Afrikaner, Jaco van der Westhuyzen, turned to the only man who could save him: a Nigerian faith healer.
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My obsession
Rangers manager Alex McLeish on film.
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Letters
Last month Peter Wilby, editor of the New Statesman, wrote about rugby, race and feeble cricketers. His column provoked a powerful response.
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Do you remember ...
No 1 Miles Byrne, golf caddie?
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Sport in a nutshell
Highland games
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Calendar
February
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Backflick
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First and last
Jason Robinson was born in Leeds in 1974. After excelling at rugby league, he switched codes to union in 2000.
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How to ...
... win at squash without breaking sweat by Vicki Botwright.
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The month in a minute
Web site | Coaching badge
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Book of the month
Bobby Fischer goes to war by David Edmonds and John Eidinow
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OSM at the theatre
Hurricane, Soho theatre
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Numbers game
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On the nose
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December 2007