The Olympics

[ChairmanDan]

Correct. He went to university in Tennessee and has resided there since his college days. He has one of the biggest track and field agency/sports management companies out there.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@backinatracksuit

Not at all, that doesn’t mean anything.

I have a sister who followed the same path, stone useless at sports until she found rowing and then won a few national championships as a skuller and represented her country.
I’m not sure what you thought I was disputing, @BruidheanChaorthainn said that rowing was a sport for failed rugby players with commerce degrees,
It takes shit loads of hard work and solid technique, it’s not rocket science and there’s not any real skill involved, but it’s insulting to serious rowers to say it’s for failed C rugby players

The Netherlands women’s coxless pairs were cruising to gold there earlier when they caught a crab twice in the last 50 metres and were bloody lucky to get a bronze. The technique went in the heat of the moment.

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

@TreatyStones

the original fish and chip shop owners came from one small area in Italy.

Correct. And apparently they used to all flock back there for a festival in August I think every year and the poor place couldn’t take that many people.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@balbec

Ray Flynn?

Technically possible though highly unlikely that it could be John Treacy who ran a few middle distance races in the mid 80s.

[Bisto]

Rowing has to be one of the toughest sports going ? Do you not need to be of a certain build too ?

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Before London 2012 Team GB set out over ten years to find those kids through trials and testing to see who’d be suitable for various sports

[Fagan_ODowd]

Great ladies handball match here on Eurosport between France and Sweden. France keep getting players sin binned and their goalie wouldn’t stop laughing. Sweden have a great keeper called Ryde and are more disciplined

[TheUlteriorMotive]

The best of the lot of them too.

Kenya or Kilkenny - it’s about a culture of excellence and being mentored and trained within that does wonders

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Gerry O’Reillly came later I think.

I’d say story is muddled and it was

Ray Flynn Marcus O’Sullivan Frank O’Mara and the Chairman of the Boards who famously broke the 4x1 mile record in 1985

[Julio_Geordio]

I can tell you 100% that the story is completely muddled. My recollection is it was 2 Cark 1 limerick. O’Mara, O’Carroll and ?. ? was the less famous one

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Fagan_ODowd

Great ladies handball match here on Eurosport between France and Sweden. France keep getting players sin binned and their goalie wouldn’t stop laughing. Sweden have a great keeper called Ryde and are more disciplined

28-28 Ryde saves a penalty with the last play of the match.

[Raylan]

@Fagan_ODowd

they caught a crab

Is this a euphemism? I haven’t watched enough rowing this week

[Spidey]

Like a Mediterranean Rathkeale

[Bod95]

Championship moments

[myboyblue]

@Raylan

@Fagan_ODowd

they caught a crab

Is this a euphemism? I haven’t watched enough rowing this week

It’s when an oar skims or misses the water

[Fagan_ODowd]

@myboyblue

@Raylan

@Fagan_ODowd

they caught a crab

Is this a euphemism? I haven’t watched enough rowing this week

It’s when an oar skims or misses the water

Or goes too deep.

[myboyblue]

Aye that too. Inexcusable really. Yer wan in the front seemed to be particularly seething.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Tank

Just accept that the overwhelming majority of people will never row in a boat more than once or twice in their lives. It’s a tiny niche sport given a massive platform once every 4 years.

I’d often take a boat out on the artificial lake in Tramore. Sometimes a pedal boat.

[Fagan_ODowd]

It was very definitely the other lady caught the crabs.

[myboyblue]

She didn’t hide her disdain. I guess you couldn’t initially at least. The Italians reaction was lovely. Sometimes you’re the bug and sometimes you’re the windshield.