22 JANUARY 2000, page 45

The Turf

Drastic reduction Robin Oakley After such a regime most of us would be too weak to lift a tennis racket, let alone `Oh, hello . . . Im staying in. I've got the grandchildren.'......

No Life

In the swim Jeremy Clarke I 'm swimming again, as well as running. Three, sometimes four times a week, I drive ten miles to this newly opened indoor swimming pool and swim up......

High Life

Army camp Taki Athens Here, in the birthplace of selective democracy, philosophy, astronomy, epic and lyric poetry, science, drama and occa- sional buggery (I kid you not, it......