Re: Le Tour de Pharmaceutical

by Bradman Mon 25 Jul 2011, 01:08

I don't know about the top three achievements but for sporting moments it's probably up in the top three. Cathy would make the latter. '83 might make both, our three day eventing team the former and maybe Makybe Diva both.

by G.Wood Mon 25 Jul 2011, 01:19

At least Joolia hasn't came out and said any boss who sacks a worker for coming in late today is a bum. Kudos to her.

She doesn't really need to emberass herself further

by horace Mon 25 Jul 2011, 01:21

Hayden's 380 remains unparallelled as the single most important achievement by an Australian FTB

by bodyline Mon 25 Jul 2011, 01:29

G.Wood wrote:On the wireless this morning they were discussing where this ranked in Aus sporting achievements. The general consesus was #1.

One guy rang up and said 1. Evans, 2. Cathy & 3 Hayden's 380 ffs

I thought CCC lived in tassie not Spivville

Evans would rank in the top three along with the Americas cup and Collingwoods Grand Final replay win!

by Bradman Mon 25 Jul 2011, 02:03

bodyline wrote:
G.Wood wrote:On the wireless this morning they were discussing where this ranked in Aus sporting achievements. The general consesus was #1.

One guy rang up and said 1. Evans, 2. Cathy & 3 Hayden's 380 ffs

I thought CCC lived in tassie not Spivville

Evans would rank in the top three along with the Americas cup and Collingwoods Grand Final replay win!

An appropriate top three as the first is full of crooks, the second won by a crook and the third associated in it's formative years with a really big crook.

by embee Mon 25 Jul 2011, 02:16

America's Cup

Cadel

Wozzies win in the 1976/77 Gillette Cup Semi Final

by Bradman Mon 25 Jul 2011, 02:19

What about all those backyard hundreds?

by G.Wood Mon 25 Jul 2011, 02:21

twits

how could you overlook Funky Miller's 5 for 32

by Bradman Mon 25 Jul 2011, 02:29

Anything involving AB. The '87 Gilly perhaps back when they weren't JAMODIs.

That eel bloke from Sydney, '00.

by bodyline Mon 25 Jul 2011, 02:30

FFS I forgot Steve Bradbury's Gold!

by G.Wood Mon 25 Jul 2011, 02:36

Bradman wrote:Anything involving AB. The '87 Gilly perhaps back when they weren't JAMODIs.

That eel bloke from Sydney, '00.

he's not australian

by WideWally Mon 25 Jul 2011, 02:37

A lot of folk assumed that Eric the Eel was Eric Grothe.

by Bradman Mon 25 Jul 2011, 02:39

G.Wood wrote:
Bradman wrote:Anything involving AB. The '87 Gilly perhaps back when they weren't JAMODIs.

That eel bloke from Sydney, '00.

he's not australian

Yeah but he got the fame and goat burger chain sponsorship in our pool.

by Zat Mon 25 Jul 2011, 02:59

Freeman at #2? FFS...

What about the female athletes who won multiple gold medals? Betty Cuthbert, who won three at the Melbourne Olympics, for example.

Or Dawn Fraser, who won the 100 Freestyle at three succesive Olympics. She was the first swimmer to do that, and even today there has only been one more swimmer who has won the same individual event at three Olympics.

In addition to that, Fraser set a world record of 58.9 in February 1964, which remained unbeaten until 1972.

by G.Wood Mon 25 Jul 2011, 03:02

the muppet had Haydos at #3 I think that said enough about the worth of his opinion

by horace Mon 25 Jul 2011, 03:04

all true Zat....but most of the Aussies around when Betty and Dawn were around have past from this mortal coil...comparisons are very difficult...I think Freeman's win was great for a whole pile of reasoons inc the feat itself

by bodyline Mon 25 Jul 2011, 03:05

Kingston Town's third cox plate!

by Zat Mon 25 Jul 2011, 03:14

h, Freeman's win was a great moment. No doubt.

But even at the Sydney Olympics, a young kid named Thorpe turned up and blew his rivals out of the water to win three gold medals. Even that surpassed what Cathy did.

A great moment? Sure. One of the top three? IMO Not even close.

by bodyline Mon 25 Jul 2011, 04:12

I see Cipriani is into bike riding thes days.

by Mick Sawyer Mon 25 Jul 2011, 04:40

In rating grand achievements I'd downgrade the billing in sports like cricket, billiards, swimming, yachting, rugby & motor racing. There are too few participants or financial barriers to entry at the elite level.

Olympic medals to Herb Elliott in Rome, Peter Norman and Ralph Doubel in Mexico City, Raelene Boyle in Mexico & Munich, Debbie Flintoff in Barcelona, Freeman in Sydney, perhaps Hooker in China quickly come to mind. De Castella and Rawlinson's world championships, the 1974 soccer players were extraordinary results in a world context. For now though, still in the heat of the moment perhaps, Evans's win gets the gong.

by horace Mon 25 Jul 2011, 06:10

mick s] In rating grand achievements I'd downgrade the billing in sports like cricket, billiards, swimming, yachting, rugby & motor racing. There are too few participants or financial barriers to entry at the elite level.[Mick S

not sure whether cricket fits the bill as an elite, expensive or expensive sport..it still has mass participation....the only elitism in cricket consists of the contents of the brown paper bag in spiv central when a player gets his first dubber cap

by Mick Sawyer Mon 25 Jul 2011, 06:34

Ask yourself this question horrie, is cricket ever likely to be an Olympic sport?

by embee Mon 25 Jul 2011, 06:35

cricket ...no ....but there is talk that T20 will be included in 2020

by bodyline Mon 25 Jul 2011, 06:38

embee wrote:cricket ...no ....but there is talk that T20 will be included in 2020

Golf and sevens in 2016 and 2020 - not sure they'd have time to include T20.

by taipan Mon 25 Jul 2011, 06:56

Congrats to Cadal.

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