Mark Russell

Finnish death-metallers dressed like Whitewalkers, check. Cypriot DJing on a gramophone, check. Montenegrin rapping astronauts, check. Giant turkey from Ireland called Dustin, check. What’s not to love?

Not for nothing is the annual Montane Spine Race known as Britain’s most brutal running event. A 268-mile, nonstop ultra-marathon along the entire length of the Pennine Way, the race is run over some of the country’s harshest terrain, taking in mountains, fells, sinkholes, mine-shafts, waterfalls and more than 40,000 feet of ascent. In January. Of the few people tough – or crazy – enough to brave the snow, ice, gale-force winds and monsoon-like downpours, only around a third will cross the finis…

Football institutions may often still bear the mark of old boys’ networks, but the Premier League is getting with the programme: it has just appointed Susanna Dinnage; its first ever female chief executive. Dinnage is currently the global president of the Discovery TV channel Animal Planet. When Dinnage takes up her new post early next year, replacing the outgoing Richard Scudamore, she’ll become arguably the most powerful person in British sport. In fact, if the Premier League is the most popul…

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