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Cal Crutchlow, fresh from the first British win in 35 years at the top level is on pole position for tomorrow's British Grand Prix at Silverstone, that place will be rocking if he wins tomorrow...
 
I was the South Oxfordshire table tennis champion aged 15 and the 2nd best in Oxfordshire.

Don't call it ping-pong!!!
 
kiwiqpr said:
One who has played hockey at Wembley and a ping pong champion
Any other sporting greats out there
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I won a paper aeroplane competition at the 'Saturday Morning Pictures' at the Shepherds Bush Odeon when I was ten. I was on the front page of the Shepherds Bush Gazette. :emoticon-0178-rock:
 
Ah
The good old days
When you could have two cinemas next door to each other
And if you missed the beginning of a movie you could sit and wait for it to start again without being kicked out
 
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An excellent 2nd place for Crutchlow and another first-time winner Maverick Vinales, very unpredictable at the moment which makes for good racing...
 
Just watching Davis Cup on BBC2, another titanic struggle between Murray and Del Potro, four and a half hours and 1-1 in 5th set. Brilliant stuff...
 
In no particular order my sports are:
Football, Rugby Union, Golf, Boxing (love it), Cricket (beer tent open all day) and Tennis. Speedway has been mentioned a number of times in the thread and I still remember the smell of the burnt fuel when watching the Wembley Lions. Mum, dad, me and my 2 brothers. Afterwards a bite to eat in the Captains Table in Wembley High Road. I THINK I am right in saying that Barry Briggs lost his forefinger in a crash on my birthday.
 
sheffordqpr said:
In no particular order my sports are:
Football, Rugby Union, Golf, Boxing (love it), Cricket (beer tent open all day) and Tennis. Speedway has been mentioned a number of times in the thread and I still remember the smell of the burnt fuel when watching the Wembley Lions. Mum, dad, me and my 2 brothers. Afterwards a bite to eat in the Captains Table in Wembley High Road. I THINK I am right in saying that Barry Briggs lost his forefinger in a crash on my birthday.
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That was the 1972 World Final when Briggo crashed out. Ove Fundin, 5 times World Champion was the star of the Wembley team supported by a Scot, Bert Harkins but they folded after a couple of years. As you say, the smell of the methanol is very evocative, always takes me back to my teenage years...
 
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