If we’re excluding motorsports, then my favourite sport is swimming. I train twice a week (in fact I’ve still got damp hair from tonight’s session) and do galas every so often. My next one’s on April 2nd, and in the dim and distant past I represented England twice (winning gold medals on both occasions) and swam at the Special Olympics twice (got a gold medal at one and a silver at the other).
I also do some short walks, but have concluded that expedition walking isn’t my cup of tea (at least not if it means walking at half my natural dawdling speed and putting up with frayed tempers and no sleep!)
The only non-motorsport sports I watch with any kind of consistency are the major cluster events (things like the Olympics, Paralympics and Commonwealth Games). I support Jessica Ennis in heptathlon though because we were in university together (we didn’t get to meet as she was in a department half a mile away from mine, but I did get to proofread articles on some of her sporting achievements).
