Cheating in sport

Do you live next door to a cheat?

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1st September, 2012

Fairly or otherwise, the women of the Soviet Union were not a byword for winsome femininity. Everyone knew what Mikhail Gorbachev was talking about when, invited to speculate on how history might have unfolded had the Soviet leader been assassinated in 1963 as opposed to the US President, he suggested that Aristotle Onassis probably wouldn’t have married Mrs Khrushchev. And Ian Fleming left little unsaid when describing KGB colonel Rosa Klebb in the James Bond adventure From Russia with Love: “Short … squat … dumpy … thinning orange hair scraped back to the tight, obscene ...

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