I should probably make note now that I was taking the piss when I suggested darts and snooker, because they are the only sports/games I am any good at.
Golf is an on the fence one.....hard to define as a sport or game for the reasons you mention. On one hand at the top level, nearly all players are now in very ood shape and buggys aren't used in competition, and it's been a fair while since a chubber like Daly won a major so maybe can be classed as a sport at the top level, either way, winning the olympics wouldn't be bigger than one of the 4 majors so shouldn't be at the olympics in it's current format for me
I have no idea. I was 16 then and all I cared about was birds, birds, booze, birds, birds.......oh and City
IOC founder Pierre de Coubertin won a gold medal in the literature category at the 1912 Summer Olympics. There were 146 medalists in the art competitions that were part of the Olympic Games from 1912 until 1948. In the 1928 Amsterdam olympics, Alfred Hensel (GER) won a gold for Town Planning and the Stadium at Nuremberg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_art_competitions
Golf at that level should not even be in the Olympics. Well done Rory and hopefully the other top names will follow.
Never drank mild after I found out you could put the slops back in a dark mild and no one would notice. Exception was a Bass Mild which rather uniquely cost more than the bitter.
That'd be a challenge - one-armed golf Olympic standard would have to be without club-heads. Or balls.
To put the costs in context what were your wages? Basic rate of income tax in 1978 was 33% lowered to 30% the year after so you saw less of your gross wages - still more than when it was 41% when I started work.
Yes, but as I wrote I saw them in 1964 when he was still alive, before being replaced by a body double.
Proves what point ? That you can't remember ? He was N/A champ 73-76. Won the '82 World Cup with Thorburn & Stevens. Weighed 25 stone (at his peak). Rumoured to drink 20 + pints of lager per day. On the British circuit for quite a few years (never won a major title, but was ranked as high as 7th at one time). Last competitive match circa '90. Been dead 13 years. He was fat, but an excellent snooker player.
No, proves the point that it's years since someone fat won at snooker too. You dont need to tell me who he is, I watched a lot of snooker in those days and I knew for a fact he never won a major title other than a drink-off with the best darts exponent Cliff Lazarenko.
