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No Kane No Gain said:
I said "most" <grr> Although, to be fair, there is another category; sports I understand and generally enjoy outside of the watered down versions we get in the Olympics. Like with football, tennis, rugby and boxing.

FOUR! There are four types of... actually I still enjoy the boxing. Fiv... ah **** it, it's easier just to ban people questioning me.
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FIVE you forgot synchronised swimming. and why not,. do I hear?
 
NowsufferinginSpain said:
I think it's a matter of perception. The 100m is the 'rock star' of the athletics world. The short, dramatic extravaganza that is like a gunfight. Does that mean that those who excel at it are the greatest Olympians?

Personally, the strength, fitness, sheer grit and determination of someone like Steve Redgrave, for me, is right up there with the very best of all.
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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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No Kane No Gain said:
That would be a sixth category; sports I only enjoy when performed by hippos for BBC idents.

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Get these fella's in and we could have Hippo Hop.


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Spurf said:
Is this sport?

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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.
 
redwhiteandermblue said:
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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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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CARL LEWIS:
Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete, who won 10 Olympic medals, including nine gold, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. His career spanned from 1979 to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and subsequently retired.
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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 <laugh>
 
vimhawk said:
Not me. When I used to sprint I was better on the bend as my left leg is a tiny bit shorter. Of course if we ran the opposite way round the track it would be a disaster!
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Didn't Sol Campbell have an issue with this once, or did i just wish it on him?
 
So, yeah, I'm finished with real football. It's been fun...

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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.
 
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