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Siena Palio

The Sunday Times
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The theatricality of football — as demonstrated by the reaction of the Brazil forward Neymar to a tackle by Cameroon’s Joel Matip at the 2014 World Cup — is what makes the sport so popular (VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty)
The theatricality of football — as demonstrated by the reaction of the Brazil forward Neymar to a tackle by Cameroon’s Joel Matip at the 2014 World Cup — is what makes the sport so popular (VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty)
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times

Our report “Racing comes second to jockeys’ scheming and bribery in Palio” (World News, last week) confused the origins of the Palio. There were public games in Siena’s central piazza in the Middle Ages, but the first record of the horse race comes from 1656.