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1 month ago | 
gq-magazine.co.uk | David Taylor |David Taylor
All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. Health and sleep trackers have been around for longer than you’d think, but they've only recently become truly worth our time. Gone are the days of a simple pedometer: now, if the wristband you’re attached to doesn’t tell you your heart rate, VO2 max, and whether you should’ve had that last Krispy Kreme, it’s positively Stone Age technology.
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2 months ago | 
gq-magazine.co.uk | David Taylor |David Taylor
All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. “I love going down these stairs, because for me it’s like entering another world,” says Florent Roques-Boizel, president of family-run Champagne Boizel, as he takes me into the wine cellars burrowed beneath Épernay’s Avenue de Champagne.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
gq-magazine.co.uk | David Taylor |David Levesley
Bodyweight exercises are the worst-kept secret in fitness. If you're anything like us, there's always an excuse for dodging the gym. You woke up late; you have to nip to the shops on your lunch break; you deserve a little rest at the weekend and it's chucking it down. Unfortunately, we're here to tell you that there's one way to make all these excuses moot: bodyweight exercises.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
gqmiddleeast.com | David Taylor
Morning has broken, but does that mean you should do the same to your body? The morning vs evening workout debate has gently simmered for as long as people have had different sleeping patterns (see: the invention of the lightbulb). People generally fall into one of the two camps.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
gq-magazine.co.uk | David Taylor
When Alfie Hewett hit the winning shot at Wimbledon this year – a thumping backhand of serve as clean as it was unreturnable – he became the second male player in history to win all four tennis Grand Slams in both singles and doubles. “I must have thought about Wimbledon every single day from the moment I lost the final last year,” he says. “You lose a singles final one time: it hurts, but you’re happy you made a final. You lose it twice in a row – that’s even more scar tissue.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
gq-magazine.co.uk | David Taylor
The 2024 Hong Kong Sevens was the last edition of the famous rugby sevens tournament to be held at Hong Kong Stadium. From next year, crowds will converge on the new Kai Tak Sports Park: an arena built on the site of the city's storied old airport, designed in such a way that pilots almost skirted the washing lines of Kowloon's highest apartment dwellers in order to land safely.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
nascar.com | Seth Sharp |David Taylor
Throughout the 2024 NASCAR season, Ken Martin, director of historical content for the sanctioning body, will offer his suggestions on which historical races fans should watch from the NASCAR Classics library in preparation for each upcoming race weekend. Martin has worked exclusively for NASCAR since 2008 but has been involved with the sport since 1982, overseeing various projects. He has worked in the broadcast booth for hundreds of races, assisting the broadcast team with different tasks.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
nascar.com | Seth Sharp |David Taylor
Throughout the 2024 NASCAR season, Ken Martin, director of historical content for the sanctioning body, will offer his suggestions on which historical races fans should watch from the NASCAR Classics library in preparation for each upcoming race weekend. Martin has worked exclusively for NASCAR since 2008 but has been involved with the sport since 1982, overseeing various projects. He has worked in the broadcast booth for hundreds of races, assisting the broadcast team with different tasks.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
gq-magazine.co.uk | David Taylor
The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games are in full swing, joining the party in the French capital for twelve days of sporting spectacle and outrageous physical achievement. The opening ceremony was full of the joy that only the Olympics and Paralympics can bring (and a little less French than the Olympics opening ceremony, which was a gently welcome relief), but now that's out of the way, the proper fun can begin.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
gq-magazine.co.uk | David Taylor
When wheelchair basketball player Terry Bywater – a seven-time Paralympian – arrives on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées for the opening ceremony alongside Lucy Shuker (herself a five-time Paralympian), they will do so as ParalympicsGB's Paris 2024 flagbearers. “You're lucky enough to get to one Paralympic Games, never mind seven. Seven is crazy,” says Bywater a few days before he and his GB team head to Paris in great form, looking to upgrade two bronze medals in Rio and Tokyo to gold.
