Sam Munnery
Sub-Editor and Writer at The Times
Sub-editor/writer, Times Sport. Ex Croydon Advertiser, Crawley News, Surrey Mirror, Dorking & Leatherhead Ad. All opinions my own. Chess is not a sport.
Articles
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Oct 19, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Sam Munnery
When the German rider Franziska Koch began sprinting for the finish line in the Belgian town of Binche, the woman she expected to shoot past was the team-mate she was leading out, Charlotte Kool. The Dutch sprinter was in the perfect position to claim this month’s Binche-Chimay-Binche one-day race as a group of six entered the town’s cobbled Grand Place. But the rider who appeared on Koch’s shoulder wasn’t Kool.
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Aug 2, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Sam Munnery
Remember who won Britain’s first medal of the London 2012 Olympics? You may recall a rain-soaked Lizzie Armitstead sprinting to a gutsy silver in the women’s road race, denied gold on the Mall by the Dutch cycling great Marianne Vos. The memory is so clear for Pfeiffer Georgi that she can even tell you where she was, despite being only 11 at the time.
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Jul 19, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Sam Munnery
For the world’s best time-trial cyclists waiting on the Olympic starting ramp on the Esplanade des Invalides next Saturday, the flat 32.4km journey ahead of them is a potential road to gold and glory. Some have ambitions for a medal; for a few of the 35 contenders, only the Olympic title will be good enough. For one rider, though, the real achievement is just being there at all.
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Jun 24, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Sam Munnery
Just like last year, one of the Tour de France’s two leading protagonists of recent years is coming into the race off the back of an injury. In 2023, Tadej Pogacar broke his wrist in the April before the Tour. The defending champion, Jonas Vingegaard, has had to recover from a punctured lung and fractured ribs and collarbone sustained in a crash at the Tour of the Basque Country two months ago.
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Jun 22, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Sam Munnery
Molly Caudery once again proved why she is a contender for the Olympic pole vault title after breaking the British record with the seventh-highest clearance of all time. Caudery, the world indoor champion, grazed the bar as she went over at 4.92m to win the Toulouse Capitole Perche pole vault street event in a damp city centre. It is the world-leading height this year and would have won gold at every Olympics except one since 2000, when women’s pole vault was first held.
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