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The birth of a new era for European sport? Let’s just wait and see

Few people know a thing about it but the brains behind the inaugural European Championships, starting this morning and continuing over the next 10 days in Glasgow and Berlin, plan to change all that.

The birth of a new era for European sport? Let’s just wait and see

Thu, 02 Aug, 2018 - 04:00

By Brendan O’Brien

Few people know a thing about it but the brains behind the inaugural European Championships, starting this morning and continuing over the next 10 days in Glasgow and Berlin, plan to change all that.

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