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Letter from Italy: Feeling positive ahead of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina
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These €70,000 bikes are helping German athletes to make faster tracks
Can we ride one of their speedy inventions? Er, no.
Paris 2024 Olympics: Athlete profiles
As the summer Games approach, we speak to seven contenders about their unique journeys to Paris 2024.
Move with the times
In exactly two years’ time, Italians will bask in the alpenglow of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. If all goes well, organisers will clink their aperitivo glasses at the top of a rebuilt Eugenio…
Hook, line and winter
The Finnish pastime of ice fishing involves both extreme cold and supreme patience. Is it all it’s cracked up to be? We take the bait.
Train gang
The Kodokan Judo Institute offers accommodation, learning and a new way of looking at the world.
Swiss urban swimming
To celebrate the release of our new book, “Swim & Sun: A Monocle Guide”, we spend the day at swim club Flussbad Oberer Letten in Zürich. Bathers of every age come here to strip…
Plotting a downfall
High in the Swiss Alps, Fabrice Meyer and his security team trigger minor avalanches to prevent major disasters.
London: a runner’s perspective
Traffic-clogged and polluted London may not seem like a runner’s paradise. But there’s more to the city’s offerings than first meets the eye, with its windy streets, architectural variety and abundant greenery. We followed…
Swimming in the Seine
As Paris embarks on a project to clean up the Seine ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games, we look at the process of readying the city’s river for its water-seeking dwellers, explore how it…
