joke games such as ... basketball
whoah!!!
joke games such as ... basketball
whoah!!!
Exactly. Also, I hate the way the crowd gets all excited if someone dunks it when they're through on their own and all they have to do is just put it in the basket. That's the equivalent of someone back-heeling it over the line when they have rounded the goalie in football yet in basketball the fans go mad for it the dummies."He's right though, what kind of sport uses a scoring system so debased that each individual score is virtually meaningless?"
Don't encourage me - I could moan about how lame basketball is for ages."alright guys carry on"
On the showing at this games, boxing should probably be out under the "arbitrarily decided by judges" rule.
Also, having seen a bit of it, olympic taekwondo is one of the silliest combat sports ever. It seems to have about as much relation to actually fighting as thumb wars, although admittedly it looks more spectacular.
100m wriggle-on-the-belly.
Exactly. Also, I hate the way the crowd gets all excited if someone dunks it when they're through on their own and all they have to do is just put it in the basket. That's the equivalent of someone back-heeling it over the line when they have rounded the goalie in football yet in basketball the fans go mad for it the dummies.
Plus you have to be really tall to play it which is a bit rubbish as well.
Nail on head. Suddenly all the top runners come from poor developing countries.
Apparently Bolt's best 100m time only a year ago was a lame 10.03!
I don't hate the dunk as such, I just don't understand why people get so excited about the way someone chooses to finish off a certain score - especially when it's in such a rubbish sport as basketball to start off with."The dunk's the ultimate expression of individual style and flair in a sport that's perfect for it. Over here it's about the blackest thing possible. You've got some company with old curmudgeons in hating it, but most of em died off in the 70s..."
"Look beyond the propaganda and you will find that 58 per cent of Great Britain's gold-medal winners at Athens in 2004 went to independent schools. You will also find that in the past three Olympics 45 per cent of medal winners went to the non-state sector. Given that only 7 per cent of children attend independent schools, and assuming that sporting talent is spread evenly, this is a striking demonstration of how Olympic success is driven by wealth as well as by ability. Either way, the 93 per cent who attend state schools are chronically under-represented."
I love the way that he's obviously completely failed to understand what kind of unfairness Syed is talking about and thinks that he means that team selection is simply and crudely biased towards public schools rather than that public schools are likely to have wealthier pupils who have more opportunities to take part in expensive "sports" such as dressage."Dare I suggest that the 'over representation' of private schools in the Olympics might actually be because they genuinely have an 'over representation' of Britains talent in them? As for the 45% of medal winers: Are you suggesting that the (foreign)Olympic judges etc are in on the 'discrimination'?"
Eric Skelton, Cardiff, Wales