• An article about the Tour de France (Tour has long, inglorious history of pile-ups caused by spectators, 23 July, Sport, p8) said that a 1999 collision between Giuseppe Guerini and a camera-toting spectator “deprived the Italian of a likely stage win”. In fact, Guerini did go on to win that stage.
• A comment piece alluded to a May 1985 Sunday Times editorial written “in the wake of the Heysel stadium tragedy” that described football as “a slum game played by slum people in slum stadiums”. In fact, the editorial appeared after the Bradford City stadium fire earlier the same month and the quote was “a slum sport played in slum stadiums and increasingly watched by slum people” (Saudis don’t need the money that flows in modern sport, but they do crave the kudos, 23 July, p48).
• Other recently amended articles include:
Screen savers: top children’s authors pick the family films that never fail
‘No more cover-up’: Nazi concentration camps on Channel Island finally to be officially investigated
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