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Bryan Clay is the best American decathlete since Dan O'Brien and is hoping to defend his Olympic title in London 2012.

Making your own basketball rim is not easy but can be a fun and cost worthy thing to do if you love your basketball. Read this article which explains how you can make your own basket ball rim.

An obi (literally 'sash') is a Japanese accessory which forms part of traditional Japanese kimono dress, and is usually encountered in the West as part of a martial arts outfit.

In this article, you will find a guide to the bike park Coed Y Brenin situated in Snowdonia North Wales. The article will give you an overview of the facilities available and the meaning behind the different coloured tracks. You will also be introduced to the sections of the forest that are best suited to the different cycling disciplines.

Football programmes are cheap and expendable, so many years must pass before one becomes collectable. Today, programmes for events like the 1966 World Cup final or the first FA Cup final to be played at Wembley are sold at respectable auction houses like Sotheby’s or Bonhams for anything up to £1,000. Read this article which guides you to collectable Manchester United programmes.

Golf trips and UK vacations are available in a number of places, should you feel the desire to put your golfing lessons to use on some sort of luxury golf vacation around the UK. Surely, nothing can be better than trudging around a golf course knowing that you don’t have work the next day. So, where do you get them from?

Everybody has a different work-out routine and everyone likes to do it their own way. However, the best gym workouts have to be the ones which vary enough to make sure that the whole body is worked out throughout the week and that you feel the benefits. There is no point in spending all your time in the gym on one area. You should use your whole body and vary it up.

St. Helens Rugby League Football Club are a professional Rugby League club from St. Helens in Merseyside in the North West of England. They currently play in the professional English Super league and are nicknamed the Saints. This article gives a brief guide on the club.

Boats for fishing come in many types and sizes. Most recreational fishermen of modest means choose an open-centre console outboard. Commercial fishermen prefer inboards for economy. Those who are after big game on the open ocean will want a larger boat with diesel engines and those fishing in very shallow water will want a skiff with a flat bottom to navigate the shallow water. This article is a guide to choosing sport fishing boats.

David Coulthard sometimes known as DC is a former Formula One racing driver from Scotland. He now co-presents the F1 coverage for the BBC alongside Jake Humphries and former F1 team owner Eddie Jordan.

A weight bench is basic gym equipment used for working out with weights. A York weight bench can acquire various shapes, angles and attachments. Such a bench is a necessity for anyone planning to build a great muscular body. Nowadays, York fitness equipment is recognised as necessary gym fitness equipment by sportspersons training for the 2012 London Olympics.

For those who enjoy the occasional swim, it’s a good idea to make sure that you have the right equipment for the job. This includes swimming clothing such as swimming suits and swimming costumes. Bathing costumes and swimming clothes are a definite requirement for women when they go swimming. This article describes where to buy ladies swimming costumes.

Gray-Nicolls is one of the UK's premier cricket equipment providers. Gray-Nicolls' cricket bats are known as one of the world's leading products, used by world class players including England Test captain Andrew Strauss, One Day captain Alistair Cook and West Indies legend Shivnarine Chanderpaul. Gray-Nicolls bats, known by their distinctive red sticker logo, can be found at most sports shops.

Table tennis, also known by the more colloquial ‘ping pong’, is a sport in which players hit a lightweight, hollow plastic ball over a small net with their racket such that it bounces on the other side of the 2.75m table. It is essentially a miniature version of tennis, with the one major exception being that volleys are not allowed. In this article, I explain the rules and techniques of the serve in the game.

Patrick Roy (born 05.10.1965) is a former Canadian Ice Hockey goaltender. Roy spent the majority of his playing career playing for two sides - the Montreal Canadians and the Colorado Avalanche. He also represented Canada at the 1998 Winter Olympics. He goes by the nickname of 'Saint Patrick'.