DESPITE THE PANDEMIC, or perhaps partly because of it, 2021 has been a vintage sporting year. Here are ten personal highlights, in reverse order.
10. FLORA DUFFY With a population of just under 64,000, Bermuda is the smallest nation to have won Olympic gold. But to see Duffy’s win as that of a plucky underdog is to do her a disservice. In the 2008 Olympics she didn’t finish; she was 45th in 2012; in 2016 she was eighth. Long roads and hard climbs, improvements eked out like gold from rock: and finally she triumphed.
