Yeah, it was a bizarre decison. Equally annoying though is that the top order, Root and Cook, in particular, reverted back to the "play at everything" approach which cost us the 2nd(?) test. Let Bairstow do the flash stuff later and show some control to get us into a good position before we send Vince and Ballance who are still finding their feet. Great knock by Moeen though, I've always had my doubts as to whether he can actually bat when we're under pressure so it was good to see him show that side. He's another with no sense at times, although I did have to laugh when he chose to bring up his century by hoofing for six Nicely balanced for tomorrow at the moment.
Cycling pursuit team including Sir Wiggo fastest - but just fail to emulate our women's team in setting a new WR
We've done fabulously to win Silver in the 7's. Fiji are the nuts in this form of the game and it is no disgrace to lose to them although the scoreline is a bit eyewatering. The House of Pain plays in the background which is apt.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/foot...h-turns-nasty/ar-BBvwIpQ?li=BBoPOOl&ocid=iehp PMSL at this on MSN news channel earlier. Only in England could the worst act of violence highlighted be a football lobbed at a linos head, when 22 players appear to be rucking 5m away!! The crowd comments are also classic, something from a post-watershed episode of Last of the Summer Wine!! Methinks the Latin American version of this would have been more like a Tarantino film......
So how would you feel to hear news that Tarantino is directing the female reboot of Ghostbusters 2 (at least you would have Uma Thurman in it) ... ??
If you hear about a cinema in Croydon being burned down, you'll probably know why ...actually there'd probably be a couple of hundred likely suspects, considering the inconvenient screening times, woefully understaffed ticket counter, and how the toilets are often an optional extra.
The easy Olympic highlight and horror for me has been the men's and women's road races. The first couple of hours of both were gigantic bores, and I'd like to throttle whoever put the cyclists lives at risk with that course design. At one point one of the commentators started to say, "Of course the race organizers have done a lot to make the course safe." On both sides of the road were foot high, jagged stone curbs. A few feet farther were iron poles about every ten feet, with what looked like crepe paper strung in between. The announcer also saw the picture and trailed off. But the end of the race: up a big hill to get the climbers out in front. Down a big hill then through a flat, to make the climbers with the lead risk their necks on the descent to try to hold off the sprinters on the flat. Sure enough, one of the lead climbers in both races crashed, the Dutch woman lucky not to be paralyzed. But the drama was intense as the sprinters caught the surviving climbers in both races, in the women's race with only 200 m to go. As the crash victim's compatriot pulled past the line, she burst into tears. It amounted to human blood sport, and I would never have wanted it to happen, but I couldn't look away.
They occasionally do. I hate people who make their livings from children and animals. Children should not be allowed to compete in the Olympics--especially when they're supposed to be fifteen and sixteen year olds but have the size, weight and physique of ten and 11 year olds. If they're really ten or eleven, their handlers are cheats. If they aren't they're criminals for overtraining and underfeeding them. In any case, they're child abusers. Well, that's not very cheerful, is it? The US seems to be having a good Olympics, which is bad news for those of us who watch the Olympics in these parts. US triumphalism, yugg.
It's interesting how the British invented modern endurance training in the Coe/Ovett era and remain the masters of it. Great performances in rowing and cycling, plus one great middle distance runner (that I know of).
Female gymnasts is all about keeping them tiny-ish so that they can get their rotational shape small enough for the high difficulty stuff. A good example of this was Nadia Comaneci. In 1976 she was a tiny kid and the high difficulty stuff was easy. in 1980 she was an adult woman with an obviously bigger physique (taller etc) . In contrast, the men buy the time needed for the high difficulty stuff by their sheer physical power (the vertical height they get on the floor etc) .
