Sidi Fidi Gold
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2 hours ago, Copa said:
It looks like Raygun is now the most famous breakdancer on earth and the most widely known Australian Olympic athlete ever.
Eddie the Eagle springs to mind.
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6 minutes ago, HawkMan said:
Changes to Champions League coverage this season;
BBC will have a Wednesday highlights show at 10.40 on One.
TNT will continue to show all games live except first pick on Tuesday, which Amazon have got.
Tonight on BBC Scotland ( 187 on sky) Rangers v Dynamo Kiev in qualifying round 2nd leg.
Thanks for that, I knew that BBC had got highlights but didn't know that Amazon had got a game.
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The handing over ceremony has to be the best ever, worth staying up for.
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Looks like an episode of Doctor Who at the moment
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Who's expecting Mr Bean to pop up at the back of this orchestra.
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Just now, Maximus Decimus said:
I know it's sacrilege to say on here, but how were we not even in the mens 7s rugby?
Essentially, it should be like the British Lions entering the RUWC. The fact they're not that bothered enough to qualify, shows why it shouldn't be an Olympic sport IMO.
The Olympics should be about the pinnacle of a sport, not an off-shoot of an established sport that some countries maybe feel like taking seriously some times.
I don't know who funds the British rugby sevens team, but I remember hearing a couple of years ago that the English Rugby Union were vastly reducing funding for the 7s set up.
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3 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:
I didn't realise that's how the Americans did do it but Clare Balding has just confirmed that as well!
Yeah, its a standing joke
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19 minutes ago, Futtocks said:
One sloppy handover in the women's 4x100 might have lost another gold. Lots of "what if" stuff, but it did mean we were genuinely in the running for a win, rather than bringing up the rear.
I'd rather that than "happy to be here" pluckiness.
Its incredible that we didn't qualify a women's 4 x 100 team for London 2012, since then we've medaled in 2016, 2020 and 2024, and 4 out of the last 6 world championships, but you're right, they missed a glorious chance to win gold here.
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4 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:
I'm looking at the medals as the total overall rather than just the golds and if we do that then we are 3rd in the medals and of course USA and China don't count because they always run away with it and no one has a chance of competing with them so if we discount them then we were top of the medals table!!
Thats the spirit , lets rank the medals like the Americans do
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3 minutes ago, Futtocks said:
There'd have probably been an extra velodrome medal in the women's Omnium if the GB rider hadn't crashed in the first race and lost so many points she never could have got to the podium. That's a genuine bad luck occurrence.
Don't forget Amber Rutter in the shooting, gold medal shoot off, she was judged to have missed her target when the video clearly shows she hit it, there's so many fine margins which can go for or against you. Italy had 20+ 4th place finishes.
Laura Kenny has been getting a bit of stick, at the start of tack cycling she predicted 8 gold medals for us
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50 minutes ago, DavidM said:
I watched the documentary on London 48 and I couldn’t believe art was an Olympics sport ! I’m with you on tug of war it’s a good watch
I think they were part of something like the cultural Olympics which ran along side the summer Olympics, I don't think medals awarded were included on the overall medal table.
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57 minutes ago, gingerjon said:
So, Team GB hit their medal spread but with a drop off of the number of golds. Not quite the dizzy heights but also a pretty good return given that it feels like there are a lot more countries putting a lot more effort in at the minute.
Pretty fun Olympics overall. Pleased I managed to miss most of the BBC 'you will cry now' build up montages but that did mean I missed a lot of Michael Johnson, which is annoying.
And for the final moment to be the French women throwing a buzzer beater that would have sent their match against the USA into overtime, only for the player to realise as the ball was in flight that her foot was on the line and her perfect throw would be worth two, not three ... well, that's just the brilliance of sport right there.
A solid effort from Team GB, they were predicted to get 17 golds, so were 3 down but were 2 up on overall medals. Australia and Netherlands had cracking Olympics while France were predicted to get 27 golds, so were well down but overall they hit they're target.
France put on a great games and the crowds really turned out in force, similar to London.
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8.7 million watched Keeley Hodgkinson last night.
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3 minutes ago, Spidey said:
Enjoyed that 100m final. Very close indeed
9.91 and you finish last.
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1 minute ago, Bearman said:
This is a no brained
Not only my opinion but in his obituary the Times called him the greatest sportsman that ever lived
Charle Burgess Fry
England Cricket International
England Soccer International
Played in the FA Cup Final
Played Union for The Barbarians
One time world record breaking long jumper
Oxford rowing Blue
oxford Tennis Blue
top golfer, skier and skater
His party trick was to jump backwards from a standing start onto a mantlepiece.
He was so well thought of that the Albanians offered him the throne of Albania!
So go on trump that lot with the Johnny come lately Parvenues you lot are putting forward.
There was an older bloke at work who was the 1972 Normanton and District worm charming champion.
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On 31/07/2024 at 12:50, John Drake said:
It's an interesting choice for a spin-off. The Sea Devils have never been a favourite of mine, badly served on screen other than in their original appearance during Jon Pertwee's tenure as the Doctor.
Hopefully this new show will do them justice, as the concept of a race of sea-dwelling natives of Earth having their planet 'taken over' from above by humans should have plenty of mileage in it.
I wonder if the Silurians will feature in it, also, I wonder if it will be an after the watershed show like Torchwood or a family show like Doctor Who.
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17 minutes ago, Red Willow said:
Murray played in an era of 3 outstanding players and won against them. It is difficult to say how he would have been in a different era.
Daley Thompson mastered several disciplines and was very good at the others. Held some views I disliked but still has to be one of the best all round athletes.
As for football Beckham excelled at self promotion (or the wife did) There are far more footballers who were better players, that didn't reach the public in the same way.
One of the best things Beckham did was marrying Posh Spice and letting her PR team get hold of him,
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1 hour ago, Maximus Decimus said:
Tonight is the women's 100m and a poignant time to mention the absurdity of the 10.49 Flo-Jo world record, and probably not for the reasons you might think.
Much is made of how she was likely doping, but it should have been discarded regardless of that. Basically, it was an incredibly windy day but the wind reading gave a reading of 0.0.
There have been many studies since effectively proving that it was wind-assisted but still it stands to this day.
Her husband was Al Joyner who was the brother of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, she still holds the record for the heptathlon with over 7200 points and until recently held the long jump world record.
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1 hour ago, johnmatrix said:
Just had a check of wades record. Tbf she Matches up well with Murray
Wade, 3 singles slams, us, aus and wimbledon, murray 3 also us, wimbledonx2
Wade 4 slam doubles, murray 0
Wade 55 singles titles, murray 46
Wade 5th all time in matches won, murray 14th all time
Murray 2 Olympic golds, wade 0
You can put an asterix against Wade's Aus Open victory as not all the top players took part, in fact the Aus Open didn't really take off until the mid 1980s.
Murray hardly ever played doubles at slams, neither do the other top male players nowadays.
As I said before, Murray won 14 Masters titles, the next one down from slams , it looks like Wade won about 6 of the equivalent WTA tournaments(though its difficult to judge.
At his peak(2008-2016) it took a good player to beat Murray at Slams, he very rarely lost to a nobody, Wade had quite a few loses to random players.
Murray won the World Tour finals, Wade won non
Its unfair to judge on Olympic medals as tennis wasn't in the Olympics when Wade played,
Murray also won the Davis cup.
This isn't meant to belittle Wades achievements,
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28 minutes ago, johnmatrix said:
Is he even britains best tennis player....Fred Perry and virgina wade ahead of him
Its unfair to compare todays tennis players with players pre 1969, when Perry played, he was dominant at grand slams but a lot of the top players were professional so were ineligible from playing Wimbledon, Roland Garos, US Open, Aus open, indeed, Perry turned pro in the late 1930s and although he had some success, he wasn't as dominant as when he was amateur, and I would back Murrays record against Virginia Wades any day.
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9 minutes ago, gingerjon said:
That's rather my point.
I've just googled him and to be fair, I wouldn't recognise any Basketball player
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13 minutes ago, gingerjon said:
He dragged Britain to a Davis Cup title as well. In American terms, you'd definitely have him in the Hall of Fame but you're unlikely to retire the number.
No one has suggested any rugby league players yet?
Actually, if it wasn't for James Ward coming from 2 sets down to beat big serving John Isner, then GB would have lost in the Q/F to the USA. Then again, you can also add to Murrays achievements, World tour finals champion, world number 1, year end number 1 and 14 times Masters champion.
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Who's the greatest British person ? I'm not sure but Andy Murray should be seriously involved in any discussion.
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6 minutes ago, gingerjon said:
No idea. I gave Olympic boxing a swerve a couple if tournaments back when the corruption just became laughable. The IOC agreed with me and it’s out from the next one on as there doesn’t seem to be a non corrupt body willing to take it on.
I've just looked it up, she lost to eventual gold medalist Kelly Harrington in the Q/Finals.
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Football
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2 ex Leeds players on the score sheet for Bournemouth.
Everton though, confidence must be so fragile.