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I have to say I watched that piece almost through my fingers it was that embarassing, but I'm not sure Inverdale should be taking the flak.

I doubt it was his idea, he'll have been given the cue cards and told to ask the questions. He looked very uncomfortable introducing the subject.

Just odd all round, I hope someone gets a smack round the ear for it.
 
WTF were the beeb thinking."survival of the fittest" may be the most misunderstood phrase in English.


Well they did hire David Starkey as an Historian to talk about culture after the riots last year....let us not forget his superior analysis... 'The Whites have become Black....'
 
David Rudisha has a great face :cool:

Look at those cheekbones

I like the Kenyan anthem as well :cool:

Just another name-check for David Rudisha. What he did last night was quite superb and, as if they were schoolboys again, he dragged the rest of the world's best to their own personal PBs. Osagie, coming last, ran a marvellous 1:43.7. Coe took the world record into unbelievable areas in 81 and his 1:41.73 record stood for 16 years. I can see Rudisha's new time standing for just as long.
 
An ok performance from the GB women in the 4x400.... also did I hear Johnson right, that for the US Felix and Richards-Ross will run both the 4x100 and 4x400?
 
Tbf - it is really hard. I ran 4x100 as a county runner in my teens and getting changeovers, particularly at the end of the 1st and 3rd leg coming off the bend are a pain in the arse. But it just strikes me that they don't train enough for this. It's a bit like the footie team not practising penalties. It's really technical, really difficult and needs to be practiced to fuck.
 
I used to throw the hammer for my county.

Used to come 2nd loads of competitions, because virtually no other counties had any hammer throwers.

And we (Surrey) always rocked up with two.

I've still got my little yellow hammer throwers t-shirt somewhere :D
 
If you are in the uk, you can watch it here about 1 hour 35 mins in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen/tv/episode/b01lv65s
These black sprinters ... just about all of them can trace their ancestry back to West Africa. That is... to slaves. And here we come back to eugenics, the theory of accelerated natural selection. Who was it that survived being put in shackles, packed into slave ships and taken across the ocean. Who was it that survived the life of forced labour on the cotton and sugar plantations? The fittest. Only the fittest could survive.

Jesus.
 
I used to throw the hammer for my county.

Used to come 2nd loads of competitions, because virtually no other counties had any hammer throwers.

And we (Surrey) always rocked up with two.

I've still got my little yellow hammer throwers t-shirt somewhere :D

Did you ever throw your hammer into the net like that blonde lady just did?
 
Did you ever throw your hammer into the net like that blonde lady just did?
Oh, fucking loads.

:D

I mean, seriously, I'm not sure I ever got up beyond two or three whirly turns (think most of the professionals do 4), and I never did them with any grace, stability, or balance :D You've got, like, a big metal lump on a piece of wire, and you've got to find a way to balance its whirling with your own body weight :D

Probably half my throws went into the net :D
 
That guy who was on about an hour ago was so annoying, when they were doing that piece on sport psychology. "Atherlete"...he said it about a dozen times too. "Atherlete" AARGH
 
Has the BBC sound department lost each and every one of its tapes, CDs and sound files apart from one soundtrack album from Transformers? That is at least the third time in two days that they have used it.
 
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