The Spectator

Runaway runners and other other sporting refugees

From our UK edition

Done a runner Mami Konneh Lahun, a 24-year-old athlete from Sierra Leone, went missing after finishing as the 20th-placed woman in the London Marathon. She is not the first athlete to have done a runner. — In the 2002 Commonwealth Games, 20 of her compatriots failed to return home. — After the London Olympics, 21

Fly

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‘Apart from making a buzzing noise and an inability to find an open window, what else do you do?’

Door

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‘My door is always open, Tracy. Could you get someone to fix that?’

Talk

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‘Why do you say “we’ve got to talk” when what you mean is I’ve got to listen?’