Category: Investigative

The Other Marathon

Running a marathon is one thing. Watching someone you love do it, armed with fourteen WhatsApp groups, a shouting voice and a loose grip on logistics, is another. Together, they make the one day a year London remembers how to be kind out loud.

By Glorious Bec

Marathon Guide

You don’t need a race number to take part in the London Marathon. Just a loud voice, a carefully plotted route across the city, and a willingness to chase crowds, cheer strangers and claim your post-race carbs.


By Glorious

Now Days

What’s it like to be friends on land and bitter rivals the second you hit the water? We head to Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch to meet five of the world’s best surfers, a generation that has grown up together, now competing for the same titles as each other’s greatest support system and most dangerous obstacles.

By Glorious

Golden Girl

We met Laila Edwards before the gold medal. Before Milan. Before the headlines. In Wisconsin, with her family around her and Dominique’s camera rolling, we saw the making of a champion who would go on to help deliver Olympic history.

By Sid S-H

Cold Couture

Six hundred and sixty hours of hand-beading, one lost FedEx package, a tribute to the Spice Girls and a $100,000 Oscar de la Renta dress. Figure skating just had its most fashionable Winter Games ever.

By Glorious

Sporting ASMR

Curling might be the most underrated spectator sport on earth. Here's why one woman thinks everyone with an overactive brain should be watching it.

By Leila Haddad

Sky Dancer

"Being the only woman in the room can be a disadvantage or a superpower. You get to choose." From the grease of a diesel workshop to high-stakes ‘half-pipes’ in the sky, Emma McDonald, the sole female competitor in Air Race X, is redefining what it means to be a pilot.

By Glorious

The Wellness Paradox

I’m a wellness addict and I’m fed up with being told how to better my health. The more I hear, the less I know, and I’m starting to question whether any of it is actually making me healthier or just more obsessed.

By Ellë Bolland

Change The Chant

For too long the cheerleader has been regarded as a ditzy, sexualised, female figure of fun. Glorious takes a peek at the history of cheerleading and declares it’s time for positive change

By Emily Spiller

Pony Power

Dreams are big, even on the smallest ponies. The Shetland Pony Grand National is a whirlwind of skill, determination, and pint-sized thrills, where young riders chase their racing dreams.

By Glorious