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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Howard Fendrich

Paris Olympics tennis players' dirty little secret is that clay gets everywhere and is hard to clean

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It's the dirty little secret of tennis players who compete on the kind of red clay being used at the Paris Olympics: Keeping clothes — especially white socks — and footwear clean while running around on what’s really dust from crushed red bricks is absolutely impossible.

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