Sporting nicknames were obligatory but are they suffering a slow death? | Tim Lewis

Dec 11, 2016

Greg Rutherford, like many of Britain’s recent Olympic heroes, is short of a nickname so it’s time for sports fans to raise their game

My allotted time with semi‑pro ballroom dancer Greg Rutherford was up. It wasn’t his agent tapping an expensive, oversized watch face, the internationally recognised signal; instead, it was a two-year-old called Milo cruising into Rutherford’s kitchen, pushing a fire engine. Milo wanted to muck about in the garden in the sand, which, unbeknown to him, also happens to be an IAAF-approved long jump pit.

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