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When Merlene Ottey’s leotard grew nine sizes

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NEW Year’s Eve and rugby always brings to mind England’s slightly eccentric but enjoyable winter “warm weather” training camps in Club la Santa on the rugged southwest coast of Lanzarote between 1989 and 1993. I definitely made the journey down south twice and there might even have been a third trip but frankly they all mesh into one 30-plus years later.
They were curious affairs. All the staff seemed to be blonde and Scandic and ran around energetically or drove little golf buggies. They all dressed in lurid ...

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