Jonathan Albon could be a millionaire by lunchtime on Sunday. All he has to do is win a 24-hour running race, covering 100 miles of hilly six-mile laps with obstacles including monkey bars, sandbags and walls interrupting him every half mile or so. Oh, and his run will be in Iceland. Where it is daylight for about six hours a day and the weather…
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In 1999, Pep Guardiola turned to Xavi Hernández. “You will retire me, but there’s this kid who will retire us both,” he said, referring to Andrés Iniesta, who he’d just seen compete in the Nike Cup youth tournament. That was the way that baton was supposed to be passed. From Guardiola to Xavi to Iniesta. But then what? Guardiola’s prediction came true and the…
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