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Posts Tagged ‘Sport’

‘We are ourselves’: Hackney football club launches kit to celebrate its standing as Europe’s first openly gay women’s team

By Marion Weaver | Thursday 2 March 2023 at 10:28

Hackney Women’s FC new strip is full of details that pay tribute to its founders and history

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Leisure centre prices to increase by four per cent across Hackney from January

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 25 October 2022 at 13:48

Finance boss Cllr Rob Chapman says decision, sparked by rising fuel costs, was ‘not taken lightly’

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Olympic legacy? Hackney residents on how London 2012 changed the borough

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 23 August 2021 at 20:28

With the Tokyo Olympics behind us and Paralympians gearing up for their shot at gold, Hackney locals examine the footprint of London’s Games

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Local community football team Hackney Wick FC to turn semi-pro

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 28 April 2017 at 17:00
Wick-ed game: Hackney Wick Fc's first XI. Photograph: Bobby Kasanga

The side are set to merge with Newham-based London Bari FC, but a lack of quality football grounds mean they won’t be playing in Hackney

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Lovin’ it: McDonald’s sponsors new kit for under eights football team

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 19 January 2017 at 09:48
Amir Atefi with members of the U8s team who received the free McDonald's kit

Fast food giant’s help for grassroots sports praised by Hackney Downs All Stars despite unhealthy nature of Big Mac and fries

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Titbits – Sporting Hackney FC and Simche Steinberger’s shot at goal

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 February 2016 at 15:33
Hackney Marshes, the current home of Sporting Hackney FC.

An embattled month for local ‘treehuggers’ and ‘Corbyn the clown’

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New football stadium would be game-changer says Sporting Hackney FC

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 8 January 2016 at 12:30
Sporting Hackney photo credit Patrick Green 460

Club urges council to get ball rolling to help find new grounds

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Swimmers take the plunge with new dementia-friendly classes

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 23 November 2015 at 17:48

Award-winning scheme making waves comes to Hackney

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Boy Dunne good: Captain of Hackney deaf team on his proudest moment

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 13 August 2015 at 11:43

Manor House based St John’s FC captain Darren Dunne on his team’s recent success

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Parkour life – opening of new academy in Docklands

By East End Review | Friday 11 April 2014 at 10:29

French sport that’s all about getting from A to B in the most efficient possible way handed new London facility in Trinity Buoy Wharf

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Hoops spring eternal: Marawa Wamp launches pop-up shop

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 31 October 2013 at 20:14

‘Queen of hula’ shows what goes around comes around

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‘I feel like an otter’: Hackney Citizen man’s verdict on West Reservoir swimming

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 30 September 2013 at 16:49

Open water experience is ‘better than Hampstead Heath ponds’, despite compulsory wetsuit

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Hackney Council takes plunge and opens West Reservoir to swimmers

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 6 September 2013 at 18:30

Dive into the water on Thursdays and Saturdays this month and next

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Elite wheelchair basketball players to shoot hoops at Hackney Sparrows base

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 28 June 2013 at 16:50

Eight teams to compete in winner takes all tournament on 6 July

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Goodgym – exercising to improve body and soul

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 3 May 2013 at 20:38

Social enterprise volunteers break a sweat by working out while helping the community

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Boxing clever for fair treatment in sport

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 15 November 2012 at 23:21

East London Fawcett event in boxing studio marks start of campaign for sexual equality in sport

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Local victory at London Fields Aquathlon

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 20 October 2012 at 10:23

Hundreds keep the Olympic spirit alive at the fifth London Fields aquathlon

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Five things the Olympics got wrong

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 16 August 2012 at 10:17

Home Counties ticket holders, overblown legacy claims – let’s not be blind to where the London Games didn’t deliver

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Hackney Hurricanes kick up a storm

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 11 August 2012 at 10:04

Disability athletics club is getting more youngsters involved in sport

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Olympic torch route, day 64: there’s something for everyone in Clissold Park

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 21 July 2012 at 13:49

Virginia Woolf, skater kids, Bugaboo mums, Ninja Turtles, and now the torch – this green space has seen it all

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