LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) – When Alistair Brownlee made his
bid for glory on the run leg of the 2008 Olympic triathlon few
were surprised when the 20-year-old upstart was swallowed up by
the chasing pack three kilometres from the line.

If the Briton finds himself in a similar position in this
year’s Games the field will know they are racing for silver.

WARSAW (Reuters) – Anyone who accused England’s Andy Carroll of being a throwback centre forward big on brawn but short on beauty should be forced to watch the astonishing super-slow motion replay of his wonderful headed Euro 2012 goal against Sweden on Friday.

The England striker connected with Steven Gerrard’s inviting diagonal cross and thumped an old-style bullet header beyond the flailing arms of Sweden keeper Andreas Isaksson to give England the lead in a Group D game they eventually won 3-2.

WARSAW (Reuters) – Anyone who accused England’s Andy Carroll of being a throwback centre forward big on brawn but short on beauty should be forced to watch the astonishing super-slow motion replay of his wonderful headed Euro 2012 goal against Sweden on Friday.

The England striker connected with Steven Gerrard’s inviting diagonal cross and thumped an old-style bullet header beyond the flailing arms of Sweden keeper Andreas Isaksson to give England the lead in a Group D game they eventually won 3-2.

WARSAW, June 16 (Reuters) – Anyone who accused England’s
Andy Carroll of being a throwback centre forward big on brawn
but short on beauty should be forced to watch the astonishing
super-slow motion replay of his wonderful headed Euro 2012 goal
against Sweden on Friday.

The England striker connected with Steven Gerrard’s inviting
diagonal cross and thumped an old-style bullet header beyond the
flailing arms of Sweden keeper Andreas Isaksson to give England
the lead in a Group D game they eventually won 3-2.

WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s 1-1 draw with Russia on Tuesday will soon become a mere Euro 2012 footnote but for everyone crammed into to national stadium and millions more watching on TV it was an occasion that will live long in the memory.

Indelibly seared into the collective Polish memory will be the stunning left-footed drive by captain Jakub Blaszczykowski that cancelled out Alan Dzagoyev’s 37th-minute header which had looked set to send the Russians through with two wins out of two in Group A.

WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s 1-1 draw with Russia on Tuesday will soon become a mere Euro 2012 footnote but for everyone crammed into to national stadium and millions more watching on TV it was an occasion that will live long in the memory.

Indelibly seared into the collective Polish memory will be the stunning left-footed drive by captain Jakub Blaszczykowski that cancelled out Alan Dzagoyev’s 37th-minute header which had looked set to send the Russians through with two wins out of two in Group A.

WARSAW, June 12 (Reuters) – Poland’s 1-1 draw with Russia on
Tuesday will soon become a mere Euro 2012 footnote but for
everyone crammed into to national stadium and millions more
watching on TV it was an occasion that will live long in the
memory.

Indelibly seared into the collective Polish memory will be
the stunning left-footed drive by captain Jakub Blaszczykowski
that cancelled out Alan Dzagoyev’s 37th-minute header which had
looked set to send the Russians through with two wins out of two
in Group A.

LONDON (Reuters) – This year’s European Championship in Poland and Ukraine is the 14th staging of the event, with the finals first held as a four team tournament in France in 1960 when it was known as the European Nations Cup.

Following is a brief history of the tournament:

1960 in France

It took more than 30 years for Henri Delaunay’s idea to become reality and when the inaugural Nations Cup was launched in 1958 it received a cautious welcome, with only 17 countries entering – West Germany, Italy and England were among the absentees.

LONDON, June 5 (Reuters) – This year’s European Championship
in Poland and Ukraine is the 14th staging of the event, with the
finals first held as a four team tournament in France in 1960
when it was known as the European Nations Cup.
Following is a brief history of the tournament:
1960 in France
It took more than 30 years for Henri Delaunay’s idea to become
reality and when the inaugural Nations Cup was launched in 1958
it received a cautious welcome, with only 17 countries entering
- West Germany, Italy and England were among the absentees.

It was a straightforward knockout tournament with home and
away legs with only the last four advancing to the four-team
playoff finals in France.

LONDON (Reuters) – Usain Bolt’s achievements are so extraordinary that the Jamaican’s sensational 9.76 seconds 100 meters victory in Rome on Thursday was greeted as a mere “return to form” after his sluggish outing in Ostrava last week.

In fact only Bolt, American Tyson Gay and compatriot Asafa Powell have run faster and the time would have been good enough to win every Olympic and world championship final until Bolt’s world record 9.69 in the 2008 Games.