Posts by 81stcolumn
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Two talking heads from Taekwondo and the Olympic committee going tut tut tut.
I feel sorry for TNZ they have struggled to keep up and have little or no money. I take exception to the NZOC taking a stance though, given that they are to some extent responsible for the problem.
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Something I know for sure:
Logan tried to start a Chauffeuring business in the years before the last Olympics. It failed largely because he couldn't walk away from it for 6-8 weeks at a time.
He is never going to be able to work in an office and working for his father involved time and a fair degree of manual labour.
In the period before the last Olympics he did do quite a lot to promote his sport at a time when better funded and "more important" athletes were already overseas. By way of a specifc example he travelled on his own dime to his old club in Tauranga to give a masterclass before he left.
the guy's using the sport angle to advertise his new business venture
And the advertising machine that backed Hamish Carter for 2004 wasn't a business ?
If Logan manages to get one good piece of publicity out of his Olympic experience then good luck to him - Given what it cost him personally It's not much to ask.
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@ Stephen Judd ahhhh not a real welder then ?
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Hmmmm Depression ?
Looks like old fashioned Self Esteem problem to me.
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Coincidence ?
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Speaking as a "Fitness Freak" I promise only to pick on those pretending to be fit. Damn that sand in my eye.....
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Mais c'est comme ça.....
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Previewed and still an edit FAIL how will I live this down...
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Not thta the the Lily Allen thing really needs any further justification, but it did finally prompt me to finish this modest effort.
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A dear friend and I once bought an overcoat which we nicknamed "Respect" a Heavygrade Brown/White/Grey woollen number in a herringbone pattern; it had bone button sleeves, a pure silk lining and the sort of collar that would get you arrested for animal genocide. Respect - well if you could lift it that was one thing, but to wear it and keep a straight face - well you had to be a serious mo'f**ker !!
I swapped my share of the coat for an antique dinner jacket, and a pink padded silk dressing gown. I need to blog all the stuff I got form Surrey jumble sales in the eighties ;-) I still have the DJ.....