Lewis Hamilton would not have won the driver’s title this year until Bernie Ecclestone’s proposed medal scheme. Photograph: Vladimir Rys/Getty Images
Formula one president Bernie Ecclestone wants to scrap the sport’s current points system and instead replace it with an Olympics-style medal scheme. Under the new proposal, the eventual world champion would be the driver who [...]

The Ajax striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar. Photograph: Bas Czerwinski/AP
The Mill is nothing if not patriotic, and after several dark decades wondering if it was in fact nothing, it was grateful to the Olympics to reawaken sentiments of graceless gloating in the face of victory and sanctimonious whinging in the face of def … brave moral victory.
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