Posts by Hadyn Green
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Why is the emphasis on that fellow and not, for example, on [eight gold medal winner] Michael Phelps? Both those guys are just freakish athletes.
If I had to make a guess why, my first guess would be that he won both races at a canter and well ahead of the pack.
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The other option would be to drop softball and rounders altogether and just play baseball. Both genders.
See, until I read Paul's comment I would've stuck to my guns on the "it's easier for amateurs" line.
Both sports are on my "cut" list anyway.
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I cringed so hard I needed medical attention.
That clip was more painful than a hundred videos of skaters faceplanting.
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Thanks for the feedback all, it's good to know.
I'm sensing a groundswell for change - ALL women's events (except for the weightlifters & stuff) will henceforth be performed in pouring rain! Sprinklers will have to be installed in every stadium.
I'm a strong proponent of what you do for one, you do for all.
So it would have to be men's and women's events and it would have to be all of them...well except maybe the pool events where rain is sort of moot.
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Re: BMX
Crap. If only the crashes had gone our way. -
Excuse me: "China"
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Brendan Telfer(sp) just blamed the print media for beating up china on the smog. O how short a memory!
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Sarah Walker has just qualified second for the BMX final, which will run in, I guess, about half an hour.
Cheers for the heads-up.
On TVNZ or one of the Freeview channels?
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Softball is a women’s only sport at the Olympics. Baseball is the men’s sport.
Rightly so too.
Dude, are you picking fights?
There is no reason why softball is a sport for women and baseball is a sport for men. Softball is an "easier" sport (larger ball, slower pitches, smaller field) and as such is played more by amateur sportspeople who would quickly become disenfranchised if they had to play baseball.
Moreover, if you can play baseball, then you should be fairly good at softball*, so why not make both sexes play softball and have more countries entered.
*though that is not always the case.
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It was absolutely hypnotic.
they had the same shots during the women's marathon. As their feet hit the ground you could see all of the muscles and joints take the shock and then their legs muscles tense for the next stride. Fantastic.
20 metres later he’s still hanging in there, Bolt gives him another stare. And then 2 more stares.
20 metres out and it’s still even.
So Bolt starts sprinting for 2 paces and leaves him for dead.
And all in the space of a few seconds