Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => The Sporting Life => Topic started by: Ham on 09 February, 2018, 01:46:44 pm
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Let's start with an overdose of cute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pJU3jm0zkI
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Loose helmet alert for the Jamaicans!
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"Imagine"
Is there a form of ear-bleach I can use to erase the memory of hearing this cover version?
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Olympic Athletes of Russia
Local sports enthusiasts who have spontaneously banded together to defend the true spirit of the Olympic Games. O:-)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVo0ti7XkAUfwlj.jpg)
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Anyone watch the ski jump yesterday? The Norwegian who got the bronze definitely won the moustache prize for the day.
See here: https://www.sbnation.com/2018/2/10/16999086/ski-jumping-robert-johansson-mustache-medal-olympics
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I don’t know much about ‘slopestyle’ snowboarding (or indeed any kind of snowboarding) but you don’t have to be an expert to see that Red Gerard is flipping amazing...
https://youtu.be/4iDksubJc3I
And he’s 17 FFS!
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Anyone watch the ski jump yesterday? The Norwegian who got the bronze definitely won the moustache prize for the day.
See here: https://www.sbnation.com/2018/2/10/16999086/ski-jumping-robert-johansson-mustache-medal-olympics
Superb!
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Master Gerard is clearly not old enough to be scared of the possibility of being dropped on his head from a great height.
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Not the same without the likes of Eddie The Eagle
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(500m short-track) That Kim Boutin is a lucky, lucky lady. I'd have been having her disqualified from both the semis and the final, but she's ended up with a bronze!
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Anyone watch the ski jump yesterday? The Norwegian who got the bronze definitely won the moustache prize for the day.
See here: https://www.sbnation.com/2018/2/10/16999086/ski-jumping-robert-johansson-mustache-medal-olympics
I commented as much to my daughter, she seemed not to pay too much attention to the grandeur of the handlebar
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A Bronze medal :)
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Did anyone else see the luge relay? I'd assumed that it was more like "people do individual runs and then the times are added up" but no, it was an actual relay - there was a thing at the finish gate that the person had to punch so that the next person could go.
Quite comical.
Mr fimm and I have been enjoying Eurosport's coverage of the crosscountry skiing and biathlon events. The BBC don't seem to think anyone in Britain is interested in such things.
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Thatwasquitefun...
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The Women's Curling team have done well. Helped by one outstanding shot by Eve Muirhead.
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The women's super-giant slalom is worth catching up with just to see the expression on the face of the winner...
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Ice Hockey, at this level, is about as amazing as any sport ever invented*
Ludicrously skillful. I am truly jealous of their ability to skate like that.
* It's everything that Field Hockey isn't.
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As an ex-field hockey player (both as winger and goalkeeper), I don't have any difficulty appreciating both games for their skills. Having been hit in the (unhelmeted) face twice from unstopped short corners I think field hockey is on balance more dangerous (or was then, when we were men!). I grew up watching the unbeatable Pakistani internationals and their skills were amazing. They are both great games to watch, though ice hockey, like American football,l is sillier and more closely related to science fiction.
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GB men’s curling team out to a 5 on the 9th end. Heartbreak, but a good run.
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I so don't understand this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/43152299
Did it help him sweep faster? Maybe he was just using it for housework.
Of all the winter Olympic sports I can't think of one where doping would be less use (they haven't somehow included ice darts, have they?
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As I wrote elsewhere when this first came up:
How can you tell if a Russian athlete is doping? If they're competing, they're probably doping.
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I so don't understand this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/43152299
Did it help him sweep faster? Maybe he was just using it for housework.
Of all the winter Olympic sports I can't think of one where doping would be less use (they haven't somehow included ice darts, have they?
I heard one of the top officials of curling being interviewed, he was as mystified as everyone else as to why a curler would dope.
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Another sport praps?
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I so don't understand this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/43152299
Did it help him sweep faster? Maybe he was just using it for housework.
Of all the winter Olympic sports I can't think of one where doping would be less use (they haven't somehow included ice darts, have they?
I heard one of the top officials of curling being interviewed, he was as mystified as everyone else as to why a curler would dope.
Maybe it didn't make the headlines at the time (they mainly went to the positive samples from the 1998 TdF and the names of the riders), but one of the instances of doping mentioned in the report produced for/by the French senate in 2013 (probably in the 'doping's everywhere' section) was of steroid abuse in Canadian over-65s wheelchair curling.
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I so don't understand this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/43152299
Did it help him sweep faster? Maybe he was just using it for housework.
Of all the winter Olympic sports I can't think of one where doping would be less use (they haven't somehow included ice darts, have they?
I heard one of the top officials of curling being interviewed, he was as mystified as everyone else as to why a curler would dope.
Will the IOC try and sweep this under the carpet?
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I don't think we should be surprised that curlers dope. Try and put aside the enjoyment they give us and imagine the embarrassment of trying to explain to someone from another planet what it is you do for exercise. The social anxiety levels must be colossal, especially in a macho society like Putinia.
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Thinking about it I am actually surprised more curlers aren't caught doping. Not for deliberately taking performance enhancing drugs but just because it seems quite removed from the athletic sports and I bet they aren't constantly monitored by team doctors and dieticians. I can imagine a curler taking steroids something when their GP proscribes it without even thinking about it just like the rest of us would or not worrying about exactly what's in lemsip when they have a cold.
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But why would you need steroids? There's barely any activity involved, never mind strength. Possibly injections straight into the leading knee?
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Sweeping?
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Not activity as we know it, Jim!
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But why would you need steroids? There's barely any activity involved, never mind strength. Possibly injections straight into the leading knee?
Not specifically because of curling. Steroids are prescribed for all sorts of things as they are an anti-inflammatory. I was thinking that I bet curlers don't have the same mindset as runners, or cyclists etc as regards being careful to avoid things like steroids precisely because performance enhancing drugs are pointless in curling.
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Fair point, Pat. It's still spectacularly silly, though, isn't it?! Would slot seamlessly into Python's Upper Class Twit Of The Year sketch and therefore worthy of watching!
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Another Russian's failed a dope test - this time, it's the pilot for the bobsleigh team.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/43168312
The kicker to this story - earlier this month, she showed off her “I Don’t Do Doping” sweatshirt. ;D
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Z6tOF3Oc--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/jgdlcv2d2x0ouecjdnqd.jpg
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All of their athletes should have been banned - full stop.
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IOC are complicit in this entirely. Russia needs to be banned from all sporting events 100% for the next 10 years
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Well, what about the Slovenian ice hockey player who was caught. His team kept on playing without any punishment. Hardly anyone has heard about this doping case.
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Perhaps it will be bigger news when it's multiple Slovenian athletes across a wide range of sports, along with reports of former participants of systematic doping in the country's sports programmes.
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Farewell Pyeongchang 2018 you were great.
I really enjoyed that, much more than the summer Olympics.
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Hmm, good in parts. Waaaay too much ice dance/skating for me. Managed to record both men’s and women’s board- and ski-cross tho, that were pretty good, although the women’s ski-cross couldn’t muster 32 competitors, so heats were three participants each rather than 4.
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There's only one thing better than an Olympic opening or closing ceremony................ Everything.
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Regarding the Russian curling doper, the argument I heard on the radio was that curlers still have to train as there is still a physical element to the game. If you get tired you'll get sloppy and you'll be less accurate, so you train so you don't get tired during a game. Doping means you don't have to train as much.
But, yes, this seems to be more of a mistake more than anything else (a single dose of heart medication meldonium allegedly, and taken during the games too) but the doping rules are very strict and apply regardless of the sport involved. (It's the same drug that Sharapova was banned for in Tennis.)
Beta-blockers would be a far more sensible drug of choice for curling.
Anyway, odd that the Winter Olympics is already over, I hadn't really got into it or watched much of it.
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Regarding the Russian curling doper, the argument I heard on the radio was that curlers still have to train as there is still a physical element to the game. If you get tired you'll get sloppy and you'll be less accurate, so you train so you don't get tired during a game. Doping means you don't have to train as much.
But, yes, this seems to be more of a mistake more than anything else (a single dose of heart medication meldonium allegedly, and taken during the games too) but the doping rules are very strict and apply regardless of the sport involved. (It's the same drug that Sharapova was banned for in Tennis.)
Beta-blockers would be a far more sensible drug of choice for curling.
Anyway, odd that the Winter Olympics is already over, I hadn't really got into it or watched much of it.
Is there anything I can take to help me stay awake whilst watching it?
It's the shouting and screaming I hate. It sounds like chucking-out time at a Glaswegian Council Estate pub.
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I never knew that Glasgow Council had pubs.
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I think they should take a much closer look at doping in the winter olympics. I mean, it is obvious to me that loads of the curling team are stoned.
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I think this might be yours
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