Yeah pretty toughQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
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Yeah pretty toughQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Well it's a lot better than being that other guy, Peaty didn't seem that fussed tbhQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Craig David is apparently part of the supporting staff for Team GB.
He's working with the archery team as the bow selector.
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You should be ashamedQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Should be, but somehow I'm not :unsure:
Also...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cprq880yz0xo
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:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Daley and Williams get Silver in the 10m synchronised diving.
Gold in Equestrian event and in Cross country Cycling.
I met an athlete near the Olympic park. I asked “Are you a Pole Vaulter?” He said “No, I’m German… and how do you know my name?
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Originally Posted by GP
It's a trap...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics...s/cye0z1kw4gyo
Gold in the 4x200m swimming relay :bow:
Also Muzza and Evans pubbed it through again last night, another match tiebreak where they were behind :lol:
All great fun but not sure how long they can keep it up, in any case if they make the final then Rafa and Alcaraz will cruise it
Rafa and Alcaraz are outQuote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
so i saw, i guess it shows that good doubles players can beat the very bestQuote:
Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
maybe Muzza has a chance after all
I saw someone raising an eyebrow that the US hasn't won a single medal in the shooting events :lol:
that's because their best shooter was taken out at the Trump rally after doing his job :ninja: ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Definitely, I think Nadal and Alcaraz are too similar in styleQuote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
I love the fact that the Turkish guy who won silver, wore no ear protection and was super casual like he was shooting beer cans in his back gardenQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Muzza out
I don’t understand the narrative that he was part of a “big 4”.
It’s probably fair to say he was the best of the rest but the big 3 were a level above him.
Good career though
Hmmm dunno he was much closer in ability to the top three than he was the rest of the packQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
He was world no1 at the end of 2016, and probably (although never would have come close to those three with grand slams) would have picked up a lot more of them if not for the hip injury that he never really recovered from
Don’t get me wrong the top three are freaks of nature and he wasn’t quite at that level I agree but not perhaps as far off as you’re stating given the amount of grand slam finals he was consistently making, the ATP titles he won and not to mention back to back gold medals at the Olympics
Special player unfortunate to be around at the time he was
That’s a position I can get on board withQuote:
Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
I always felt Henman was underrated. He wasn’t anywhere near as good as Murray of course but he was always top 10 in the world, maybe too 5. He wasn’t at the level of Sampras but he wasn’t the bum some people made out.
I actually don’t think it’s unlikely that Murray has been in a Tennis match and thought something like “I'm glad I'm serving for the match because i need to go to the locker rooms and drop the kids off at the pool”. You get the old comfort break to take another meeting with Armitage Shanks, and even though most of the fluid you take on is sweated out of your body if you’re in a five hour five setter there’s got to be a moment where you’re desperate for a slash at the very leastQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Very much agreeQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
There was no big 3, just a big 2, there was some guy called Ronald or something, but he was eclipsed by Rafa and Djoko ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Your weird obsessional dislike of certain sportsmen based on nothing is out on display again I seeQuote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
As is your constant obsessional monitoring of this board :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
Something on the BBC "Is Murray Britain's greatest sportsperson" :lol:
That's a hard no.
See that is an interesting questionQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Who is, I don’t think there is one person who does stand head and shoulders above everyone else. Lewis Hamilton possibly?
I'd agree it's not that clear - a mate also threw Hamilton's name into the ring.
I think Redgrave (Steve, not Vanessa) is worth a shout. 5 Olympics in a row, although I guess it being in a team dilutes that somewhat.
Hoy?
Daley Thompson? :bow: (holy shit, 40 years ago that was!)
It's really hard to compare across sports and eras.
Redgrave would be right up there for me for sure, Thomson yes, Hamilton also, I think Murray's not the best ever but to even be able to occassionally break up the usual winning pattern in men's tennis in this era is a real feat.
I was trying to think of Britons who completely dominated their sport but the ones I could think of were people like Phil Taylor in darts and people like Hendry, Davis and O'Sullivan in snooker. Both sports which are quite UK-centric anyway.
Well back in the day I would have said Daley Thompson.
https://i.ibb.co/MShYf3f/Diving-Paris.jpg
Show offs :sulk:
Coe. Okay? And there were plenty more. But nobody ever like Coe. That was domination on a level that heas never been seen in any other sport other than woke boxing where blokes beat up women for the viewing pleasure of tattooed, blue hair vermin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Coe was a privileged Tory cunt - I was always an Ovett supporter, proper normal guy who did it the hard way through his own workQuote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
You are a sad, sick, little person. Coe was the ultimate athlete. I couldn't give a fuck about his politics and I don't know why you do, given we're talking about sport. You horrible little cunt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
You brought in sexual politics (albeit in a drunken distorted way but hey what's new) in your own postQuote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
If you can't understand how someone's upbringing gives them a head start in certain sports I pity you*
*in addition to pitying you for the alcoholism ofc
I did, didn't I? Okay, fair point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
But I'm talking about sickos who like beating up women or seeing women getting beaten up by men. Very different, you have to be genuinely disturbed to support that. You equated Coe's politics with his ability to be the best 800m runner of all time, which he was. That's just juvenile.