As an old rower, Redgrave and Karpinnen stand out as great Olympians. I rowed with a guy who won a silver medal in the eights and placed fifth four years later in single sculls. Rowing is a bit like running the mile with about twenty or thirty pounds on your back. Training is torture.
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It isn't....and yet again it is. It involves breathlessness and sweating (mostly of the half of the audience that have testicles) which makes it more 'sporty' than golf or archery which are very similar to snooker and darts and therefore, pastimes or games. Sitting in front of my screen all on my ownsome, I am inclined to say it isn't a sport but if the participants argued with me to the contrary, in person, I might be open to persuasion (or inclined to agree to anything they said no matter how ridiculous or demeaning). I am very shallow.
Good for you. I used to row for a while some years back. A guy I worked with was a member of the Barnes club. Yes, torture! Especially out on a choppy Thames on a freezing cold wet November morning....
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Could never take to Lewis...no idea why but he used to really get my back up...would never have surprised me if he had been caught doping. Think that's cos of the Ben Johnson and other cheats at the time making all amazing achievements look dodgy...a bit like now. Mind you can't imagine he gives a toss what I think
There was an Olympic medal for town planning in 1928, 1932, 1936 and 1948. Funnily enough, the Germans won gold and bronze in 1936...
It's both funny, and yet also a more sensible way to get from A to B on land than butterfly is to get from A to B in a pool.
Cook's decision to bat first on a green pitch with cloudy, dull overhead conditions looked crazy - even more so at 65-4. Ali and Bairstow dug him out of a hole and with that late Pakistan wicket, England are just about on top, so he's got away with it. Still can't help feeling that if they'd bowled first, Anderson would have finished with 6-40 or similar.
