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New York, USA
Joined February 2009
🥇History made live on the BBC!🥇 The favourite moment of my broadcasting career - Kenya's Sabastian Sawe broke the 'impossible' sub 2 hour barrier at @LondonMarathon. I was live with @MartineBBC on @BBCNews & @BBCWorld talking about Tigst Assefa's record when Sawe flew past!🇰🇪
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Replying to @Cormac86
@Cormac86 Hi, just saw your old post about parkrun in NYC. I’m launching one in a few weeks. DM me for details if you’re still interested!
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I always loved the bit in Gavin and Stacey where John Prescott arrives at Ness and Dave’s wedding.
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Here is the montage BBC Sport aired at the end of their Olympics coverage.
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This is the best FUCK OFFFFFFF ever recorded
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I've been waiting to sign up for a while now, but every time I check my singlet size is OOS. Are there any plans for a re-stock? – at City of London, London
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I’d read the terms and conditions tbh
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Replying to @jackwhitehall
Learning to Drive with my Father…? 🤔 – at Boston, MA
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You're EVEN OLDER now! 😋 – at Stratford, London
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Replying to @jamesrickards
Ha I am starting to feel it!
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14 years today apparently! 🤯 #MyTwitterAnniversary
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ANDY. MURRAY. 🤯 Madness in Melbourne! @andy_murray • @wwos • @espn • @eurosport • @wowowtennis • #AusOpen • #AO2023
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“Late race carnage” sums it up pretty well. 😂😬 #TCSNYCMarathon – at Stratford, London
We compared last year’s @nycmarathon to 2022, and the high of 74° (compared to last year’s 55°) led to some late-race carnage for athletes. TL;DR, this year’s race was hard, and if you PRed: you deserve some extra kudos 👏
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How can so many races fail at getting the course length correct?! 🙄
Great Scottish Run reveals that, following an investigation, their 10km course from this year’s race was 150m short. Means Eilish McColgan’s new European record is null and void.
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Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney paid $2.5 million for the world's third-oldest football club. But the team is in the 5th division of the English football pyramid and has almost no chance of making it to the Premier League. Still, it was a genius move. Here's why 👇
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BREAKING: US singer 50 Cent announces that he now wishes to be known in the UK as 1 Pound.
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Huge. 🙌 Now to get out of bed and do my own 32km… 😒 #BerlinMarathon – at Stratford, London
#berlinmarathon2022 Eliud Kipchoge breaks the world record with 2:01:10 (unofficial).
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Ah ffs @rogerfederer, why u gotta start crying. Setting me off now too! The admiration everyone has for him here - the perfect goodbye. 🎾 #LaverCup – at Stratford, London