Tell me again that track running is dull?? :thumbup:
Tell me again that track running is dull?? :thumbup:
That last lap was a second up on my 400 PB - puts it in to perspective when I would struggle to run 1 lap with them.Originally Posted by Alf
Great run by Dibaba, blew away the Kenyans on that final lap
Great effort by Pavey and Bleasdale. 20 secs off her PB for Pavey. Bleasdale never run sub 33 on track or road before and broke her 5000m PB twice.
Adlington is world class has done really well in a class field, but it all sounds she's getting her retaliation in first (against an expectant and fickle media) and that those ready to cast their judgements had all got into her head before the gun. Part of me thinks that this is top level sport and you have to learn to cope, but part of me thinks that it's a damn shame that the media can spook people competing at this level. She's only 23 and knows nothing other than swimming and is now right in that build-em-up-knock-em-down cycle that has beset so many sports stars in the past. Hopefully, she'll gain some thicker skin and come back stronger, but these 15 year olds coming through and frighteningly fast!!
Good post Mark - some parts of the media have had a go at her in the past and undoubtedly will again.
There's also the irony of John Leonard of USA Swimming complaining when a 15 year old Chinese swimmer does great things, just before a 15 year old American swimmer wins the 800....
Top class arse!Adlington, "the pressure and expectation...
You didn't hear any of the cycle boys or hardcore rowing motherfXckers bang on about that did you? No, they oared up and helmeted on and set World Records. You giant blonde floating turd. Ainsley's out there still somewhere round the mid atlantic, sailing his bollocks off! Expectation? He's loving it. COME ON NATURE!!
tell you what. Standing in the drome when the boys broke the pursuit record... and then Pendleton winning as well (even if it was the smallest of margins), its a bit of an inspiratino to get on a bike... and not just on the road, but in a velodrome!
Well said CCR.....For the General's benefit...Rebecca Adlington just happens to be our most successful Olympic Swimmer of all time and has been gracious in defeat!
Just got around to seeing some highlights for that USA - Nigeria basketball.
What a bunch of tossers the US team were.
These millionaire professionals were rubbing it in because they were so much better than some amateurs from Nigeria. Slam dunking and high fiving all over the place.
It would be like Barca playing Rochdale and nutmegging the opposition and laughing in their faces after they did it.
I hate basketball even more now. Not only is a pointless sport watched by cretins, at the highest level it is played by nutsacks without an ounce of self awareness or humility
Indeed.
But Lord Moynihan said today that about 50 per cent of the medals won by Team GB in Beijing in 2008 were secured by athletes that were privately educated and who made up just seven per cent of the population
Not to worry that ratio is bound to change next week when the pigeon racing and badger gassing tournaments get underway
General - This could have been an interesting topic if you'd have presented it in a reasonable manner. :w00t:
Personally I also tend to think that many sports are beyond the reach of the fabled "man in the street. To compete at olympic level and work for a living?? Not a chance. Having said that, it is not as exclusively for the rich as it was in Max Woosnam's day when it was virtually a closed shop. Tennis would not have it any other way of course, (no champ since before the war, speaks volumes) a top dressage horse can cost a million etc etc.
Darts seems to be as democratic as it gets, you can practise at home, kit costs very little, and therefore will never be an olympic sport:w00t:.
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