All entries for Thursday 17 February 2005

Over–50s

We have now broken another taboo in the world of international sport: some people would like to claim that over-50s cannot take an active part in mainstream tournaments; that they're too old, slow and forgetful to beat the Bright Young Things of this world. Glassball has joined with International Bowls and the Whist Drive Society of Great Britain in proving that being old enough to remember when you were forty is no handicap in sport, as two of that ilk played against people who could have been their children. In fact, one of them was, because the two landmark-makers were Colin's parents. And very well they did too.

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