The QT

Monday 20 May 2024
20/05/2024

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Flag on the Tyne

Phil Watson was browsing Gumtree when he spotted the thing that would take over his life. “I wanted to find a football team that would let me play striker, even though I’d not played there since I was 12,” he says. Instead, Phil discovered flag football, a five-a-side non-contact version of American football. The local …

Packing a punch in Paris

Sitting in his bedroom in North Tyneside, Adam Olaore is daring to imagine the possibility of Olympic glory. After years of blood, sweat and sacrifice, it’s now within touching distance. Tantalisingly so. The 22-year-old Wallsend boxer, who is nicknamed Big Future, has secured his ticket to Paris 2024 and, as he prepares to step on …

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