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  On 3/26/2025 at 6:49 PM, NearPup said:

Ya, Bandy just has no depth sadly :<

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Lacrosse has a very similar lack of depth and will be held in LA... 

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  On 9/11/2024 at 11:59 AM, phelps said:

it's just a boutade of those stupid "Lega" local governors...

 

that ban is against every principle written in our Constitution and there's no judge that would allow this idiotic rule to stay in place 

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Wasn't AC Milan originally a cricket club?

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  On 8/31/2024 at 7:03 AM, heywoodu said:

Nonsense  

 

I mean, look at the Netherlands. I grew up watching Jos Verstappen at the end of his F1 career (born in 1990, so mostly started watching from 1996-1998 or so, when I used to watch the start and then go to my room and ask my dad to call me if there was a crash ). When I was 10+ years old, I was watching the full races and was seeing the likes of Christijan Albers and Robert Doornbos struggle in piss-poor cars in the back of the field. Two Dutch riders in F1 at the same time, that was amazing! Doornbos even with a few races for Red Bull, which at the time was an 'ok' team, cool! We were used to the Dutch riding for Minardi, Jordan or, ugh, Spyker.

 

In all those years, up to at least 2012 or so, never did I have any remote hope to ever see a Dutchman get a podium, let alone take a win. Or well, I had hope that would happen like 'one day', but nowhere in the near future. Then came Verstappen in F3, destroying the field there. Sure, he didn't take the title, but those who watched those races know it's because of tons of technical issues and such, when his car wasn't breaking down, he was obliterating the field, especially in the rain.

 

All of a sudden, he was going to ride for Toro Rosso as a teenager, and we got a Dutchman scoring points, wtf! Before we knew it, he went to Red Bull and I can still remember the chills my dad and I had all race and especially at the end when he was actually going to win the race, history  I felt similar to when the Dutch football team was about to reach the World Cup final in 2010, like, 'what the hell, am I actually going to see this happen?!'.

 

And here we are, three world titles and a gazillion wins later  

 

Just to say: I have no doubt at all a Brazilian is going to win an F1 race again at some point, and absolutely 100% sure a Brazilian is going to drive in F1 again  Felipe Drugovich, Rafael Câmara, Gabriel Bortoleto, a random Fittipaldi, and that's just drivers who are already doing well in the junior categories now and in the past 2-3 years, there's no doubt plenty of more coming from Brazilian F4 (Mattheus Comparatto, Alvaro Cho, Ethan Nobels, even his sister Aurelia Nobels) and karts.

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 is the most successful nation in F1 but I grew up watching bad drivers in the early 80s being beaten by good  drivers

And then there were good  drivers again...

And soon there will be good drivers from  

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  On 7/24/2024 at 5:07 PM, bestmen said:

Kenya is the 2nd team after South Africa , whatever the conditions/excuses are , its a win 

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I think Namibia are probably a better team than Kenya at the moment but it's still a great win for a team that has only existed since 2007

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  On 7/24/2024 at 3:35 PM, bestmen said:

 historic final ,,defeated Kenya 20-12 

 

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Lots of players with Algerian heritage playing in French 2nd and 3rd division

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https://worldnomadgames.kz/en/page/sportivnaya-programma

I call these Games very not Olympic...

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https://www.olympics.com.au/olympians/rachael-gunn/?lid=767jbe8wfbqv&user_id=14056e0f-5dde-4241-ab98-60677908eeea&utm_source=braze&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

 

And to prove it's true...

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  On 2/25/2024 at 12:05 AM, Rafa Maciel said:

Am loathed to post this as I really don't care about this "sport" but  have announced their initial squad selection for Paris:

 

Rachael Gunn - "B-Girl Raygun"

 

Jeff Dunne - "B-Boy J-Attack"

 

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Gunn is a 36 year old university lecturer. 

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And he wins the title in Bahrain

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In the first round of the shoot out 13 year old Shaun Liu  won his first round match against Ishpreet Singh Chadha of India.

The youngest player ever to win a match on the world snooker tour

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  On 12/7/2023 at 1:41 PM, rafalgorka said:

I choose here, could be great World Cup

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I quite like the idea of  with some games in Southern  and  

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On to the 2035 Rugby World Cup and four countries are interested in hosting.

 

       

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  On 11/19/2023 at 7:58 AM, heywoodu said:

I had already expected a pretty good race, but this was even more fun to watch than I had hoped

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The dealers at the poker tables at one Las Vegas Casino earned $1 Million in tips on the Saturday night so I guess the Casinos made a profit and F1 is going to stay in Vegas for a long time. 

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It's Las Vegas! Driving a Formula One car over crumbling roads at 4 o'clock in the morning is not the strangest thing that's ever happened at that time in the morning in Vegas...

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My apologies to all Polish rugby fans.

 

A result from the European Under 20 men's rugby championships.

 

Portugal   122 Poland  0

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  On 10/28/2023 at 8:19 PM, heywoodu said:

That means that either I know rugby (because you do), or you don't know rugby at all (because I don't)....I'm going with the first option  

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If it helps I once had a failed trial  for the West Wales under 16 rugby team...

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Roger Federer (whose mother is South African) seen on camera at the World Cup Final

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I like the fact that I agree with you @heywoodu

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And I think the South African captain will get sent off too

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It's traditional in rugby that New Zealanders never get sent off unless they chop off their opponents' head and tap dance on their grave...

Edited October 28, 2023 by Dragon

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  On 10/28/2023 at 7:35 PM, heywoodu said:

English referee, that I can live with  

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I'm Welsh. In rugby I can have no sympathy for anything English but Wayne Barnes is a superb referee

Edited October 28, 2023 by Dragon
spelling mistake

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  On 10/28/2023 at 7:29 PM, heywoodu said:

I would have found it fun to have Argentina or something in the final, the only team I'm glad about that it's not there is England, which even for a non-fan like me plays just really unattractive  

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To be fair, the Englishman in the final (the referee) is having a great game so far...

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I think it's fair to say the rest of the rugby world aren't happy that the final is between  and  .

There is a feeling that both teams are arrogant and look down with disdain on other countries.

However it's clear that the two have been the best in the world for the last two decades.

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  On 9/21/2023 at 9:01 PM, Dragon said:

France 96 Namibia 0

 

BUT

 

Antoine Dupont, French captain and best player in the world, has gone to hospital with a suspected concussion and possibly a broken jaw

 

 

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Confirmed as a  fractured eye socket not jaw