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Owen Slot

New Zealand

Chief Sports Writer at The Times

Chief Sport Writer on The Times

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  • 3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Owen Slot

    This snippet of info may not come as a surprise to many, but to 50 per cent of the population it probably will: when women are running, their boobs do not bounce up and down, they move in a figure-of-eight formation. Here is further news for the uninitiated. To mitigate movement and therefore pain, the natural unconscious response for a female runner is to shorten her stride.

  • 3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Owen Slot

    This snippet of info may not come as a surprise to many, but to 50 per cent of the population it probably will: when women are running, their boobs do not bounce up and down, they move in a figure-of-eight formation. Here is further news for the uninitiated. To mitigate movement and therefore pain, the natural unconscious response for a female runner is to shorten her stride.

  • 3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Owen Slot

    The news that professional rugby union is about to be hijacked, transformed and reinvented as a global travelling circus is certainly exciting.

  • 3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Owen Slot

    I rushed back on Saturday evening to watch the Giro highlights. I hadn’t really been tuned in during the day. I mean, Friday’s stage hadn’t gone well for Simon Yates and in his interviews, he seemed to acknowledge that the two race leaders were too far ahead in the general classification and that he didn’t really have it in his legs. Actually, since then I have heard Yates’ pre-stage interviews the following morning and he was delivering the same line.

  • 4 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Owen Slot

    The latest sporting superstar to have dawned on my limited horizons is called Dumpling and though everything in my genetic code tells me that, for heaven’s sake, the last thing we should be doing is taking Dumpling seriously, it is perhaps the time to ask instead to what extent Dumpling may be changing the world. You may also know Dumpling as Vasilii Kamotskii, a 34-year-old from Illansky, a Russian town two days’ train ride east of Moscow.

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7 Jun 25

RT @M0lly_Writes: Loved this piece, (and learnt things about sports bras!) from @owenslot On SOOO the women’s sport pop up on regents str…

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6 Jun 25

Loved writing this column about inspirational entrepreneurial women changing the sporting world. https://t.co/7m2DET0bwC

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6 Jun 25

RT @TimesSport: From shoddy bras and boys’ boots to kitting out the Lionesses - the start-ups changing the game in women's sportswear ✍️ @…