Woolridge: Words of a 冒険的な 巨大（な） part four

For more than 40 years, Ian Wooldridge delighted Daily Mail

readers with his unrivalled

columns. With style and

coruscating wit, he celebrated the

業績／成就s of our 冒険的な

heroes, but was merciless in his

激しい非難 of the cheap and

tawdry, the 偽の and the crooked.

Read more:

? Pictures: Ian Wooldridge - From Ali to Amin

? 別れの（言葉，会） to my friend Woolers

? Wooldridge the 広大な／多数の／重要な dies at 75

? 尊敬の印s to a legend

? The words of a 冒険的な 巨大（な）

? Woolridge: Words of a 冒険的な 巨大（な） part two

? Woolridge: Words of a 冒険的な 巨大（な） part three

On an Olympic 開始 儀式

September 16th 2000

The biggest laugh of all is whe n some poor soul has to stand there and 断言する on 誓い that all 10,800 関係者s over the next 16 days will compete 公正に／かなり to the honour of sport.

This 仕事 fell last night to a young Australian lady who would have been imbecilic if not aware that she was committing an 行為／法令／行動する of 集まり 偽証. Out there, centre-field, were dozens of 競技者s 簡単に 動揺させるing with 業績／成果-高めるing 麻薬s.

And those were only the lucky ones who 港／避難所't yet been caught.

On a Soviet Olympics - 20.7.80

Ironically, for Games 保護するd by a paranoiac

安全 非常線，警戒線, the one thing you

could easily have done from my seat, Number

691, in the third 列／漕ぐ／騒動 at the 開始 was

to have 発射 Leonid Brezhnev 石／投石する dead.

The fourth 味方する of the 保護の marble

structure in which he feebly 拍手喝采する each

team as it passed was open to a 解雇する／砲火／射撃ing angle

of 80 degrees and packed to a depth of 80

yards by photographers 目的（とする）ing long-レンズ

cameras straight at his 長，率いる.

(It was later 明らかにする／漏らすd that it took a 脅し by

British Olympic 協会 chairman Sir

Denis Follows to take the British team

home to 妨げる the Soviet 当局

国外追放するing Wooldridge for that 観察).

On the first London マラソン - 30.3.81

They （機の）カム in their thousands but they ran

alone on a grey London day. Past unseen

目印s of history they 軍隊d leadening

脚s に向かって the personal 業績／成就 they

will never forget.

I 令状 not of the 星／主役にするs with their Olympian

strides for the TV cameras but the 4,000,

maybe 5,000, who （機の）カム after and fought

through tiredness, then exhaustion and

苦しめる to turn at last across the 直面する of

Buckingham Palace and cross the finish line

in unremarkable times.

They, too, are now マラソン People.

On Scottish football - 9.6.78

In pursuance of a small,

new experience, not to

について言及する the 荒涼とした hope of

finding out why Scotland

are playing like Basutoland

Wednesday, this

column comes to you in

unusual circumstances.

It is 存在 written under

the 影響（力） of Willie

Johnston's funny pills. Three hours before

typing the 開始 line I swallowed two

fencamfamin-based Reactivant tablets.

This was the same 投薬量 Willie 認める taking three hours before the start

of his last game for Scotland. For all the

good they have done it might have been

Rentokil.

I do not 暗示する that other members of the

Scotland team are on them. But if they were

it could explain a 広大な／多数の／重要な 取引，協定.

On 王室の Ascot - 23.6.78

にもかかわらず two world wars, the London

School of 経済的なs, Mr Wedgwood Benn,

the Morning 星／主役にする, countless egalitarian 行為／法令／行動するs

of 議会 and a succession of 社会主義者

（ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長s, Britain, of course, remains

rigidly divided into two social classes.

There are those who 現実に own the

morning dress they wear to 王室の Ascot. And

then there are those who do not.

The Fiesta of the 勇敢に立ち向かう - 11.7.77

A large cognac helps. Two

large cognacs are better still.

But in the end there’s no

避けるing it. At around 7.40am

you 押す 支援する your caf? 議長，司会を務める

and stroll across the square

with a wholly spurious

nonchalance.

You recognise the tiny,

支配するing feeling in the stomach.

It was how you felt before

your last big school exam

when they’d told you your life

depended on it. It is known as

恐れる.

No 入ること／参加（者） 料金s are 要求するd.

You 単に 軍隊 your way

through the 鎮圧する of 観客s

and duck through the

激しい 木材／素質s that の近くに off

the 1,028-yard run between

the corrals at one end of the

town and the bullring at the other.

Once in, you cannot get

out. If you try, the police will

軍隊 you 支援する for you have

committed yourself to a

Basque 儀式 of rigid

tradition.

今後, it is every man

and bull for himself.

The 支配するs are primitively

simple. The bulls to be fought in

the afternoon corrida are

解放（する）d through the 狭くする

streets with a 相互に

受託するd 委任統治（領） to maim or

kill anyone standing or running

in their paths.

Standing or running in their

paths each morning this week

are around 1,500 men, mostly

Basques, 大部分は male chauvinists,

変化させるing in age from 15 to

65. Only the 極端に unintelligent

or very drunk are not

かなり 脅すd.

From his last column - 24.2.07

It shows what a decent race of compassionate Poms we are when we 港／避難所't turned the 解雇する／砲火／射撃 靴下／だますs on Australia's cricketers as they 崩壊（する）d like a bunch of pygmies as soon as we left the 前提s.

They'd had a field day against England, of course, as we 類似して 崩壊するd in the Ashes, which made it open season for its gifted, vituperative 新聞記者／雑誌記者s, most of whom are 現実に over here.

Prizes are 手渡すd out in 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s for authors of the most viciously 侮辱ing pieces. I hope my fellow Sportsmail sub-editors are up to 速度(を上げる） if there are chances for 報復 during the 切迫した World Cup.

Curiously, it is this 相互の slagging-off that has 社債d our middle and lower classes ― Australia doesn't have any upper ones ― over the years.

Mind you, you have to be 特に 用心深い in the 高度に 極度の慎重さを要する West Indies. In a column about Garry Sobers' lovely mother, I 公式文書，認めるd that there was a 穴を開ける in the 床に打ち倒す of her living room in Barbados.

Posters of 抗議する followed me for a couple of days and I was almost thrown off the island.