My admiration for sportspeople is always at its most intense at this time of year. After all, it’s the season when I can make it to the end of a week and realise that my food consumption, extensive as it was, consisted only of items in varying shades of beige. When I wake to discover mince-pie crumbs in my bed and sometimes in my hair. The only physical exercise I engage in follows a YouTube search on “Yoga for Digestion” and getting the rubbish to the bins feels like the 10,000m, requiring me to pace myself in the early stages and keep a water bottle to hand.
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Written by Emma John
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2018/dec/23/alastair-cook-new-years-honours under the title “Alastair Cook could be the latest in a list of unlikely cricketing knights | Emma John”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
