In other news ....

Bradman wrote:Latent? h was born with an ASIO file.

Hehehe.

FFS. Break Dancing has been added as a sport in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Next they’ll have egg and spoon racing

Big Dog wrote: Next they’ll have egg and spoon racing

It has become a joke.

Nowadays I am only interested in the diving and gymnastics. I will watch some of the Aths and stadium cycling but not much else.

Who is Oliver Hoare?

If you say that quickly, it sounds like someone is interested in a prostitute.

What were his parents thinking?

Anyway, back to Oliver .... is he a contender?

horace wrote:

Big Dog wrote: Next they’ll have egg and spoon racing

It has become a joke.

Nowadays I am only interested in the diving and gymnastics. I will watch some of the Aths and stadium cycling but not much else.

Cross country horsies, shooting, some swimming, middle distance running.

Bradman wrote:

horace wrote:

Big Dog wrote: Next they’ll have egg and spoon racing

It has become a joke.

Nowadays I am only interested in the diving and gymnastics. I will watch some of the Aths and stadium cycling but not much else.

... some swimming, middle distance running.

all the above, marathon, and hockey

Yeah turn on last half an hour of marathon, find out which Kenyan is winning and how far ahead he is change over to fishing channel.

Sorry lardy. I admire their guts and as a cross country runner and have tried it twice, once and never again.

https://wwos.nine.com.au/news/oliver-hoare-shocks-the-world-1500m-new-york-tokyo-olympics/f3e13d0f-66af-4e57-aa63-4c94fe13a7dc

Big Dog wrote: Next they’ll have egg and spoon racing

And soon after: hen's eggs, goose eggs, pigeon eggs and emu eggs, all over each of 6 distances, the same as the swimming rort (disclaimer: Ian Thorpe, Shane Gould, Suzie O.Neill, Dawn Fraser and anybody else anyone wants to add are/were all wonderful human beings totally dedicated to excellence in their chosen sport and none of the preceding rant is their doing)

Admire the marathon blokes and will definitely be watching it, I think you forgot to mention the Ethiopians ...

Never ran a marathon myself. Did plenty of 5000 and 10000 in my time but was never moved to attempt a marathon. One of my brothers was until very recently a regular Ironman and triathlon competitor, and for years he wanted me to do the run leg in a team effort ... but I always declined, leaving him to do all 3 legs unassisted. Illness has now forced him to quit.

lardbucket wrote:Admire the marathon blokes and will definitely be watching it, I think you forgot to mention the Ethiopians ...

Never ran a marathon myself. Did plenty of 5000 and 10000 in my time but was never moved to attempt a marathon. One of my brothers was until very recently a regular Ironman and triathlon competitor, and for years he wanted me to do the run leg in a team effort ... but I always declined, leaving him to do all 3 legs unassisted. Illness has now forced him to quit.

I forgot which team dominated what distance. Used to run up to 10000m in school though most cc were less. The Marathon was a tri village charity thing and was part of a deal with my grandfather to do the heavy lifting in sporting affairs. I knew the bloke running the show (or at leasrt keeping the book) figured it was about as straight as a midweek at Rand wick. Rode the course and figured his mapping was about as sound as Columbus and 20 km was manageable and came in top fifth in a good sixed field.

People in other States may not have been following this story, but a woman named Melissa Caddick disappeared after being raided in November last year by ASIC and the Feds for the activities of her alleged highly dodgy investment "company". She basically ripped off family and friends to the tune of $20 million to fund her very lavish lifestyle from her $6 million dollar Dover Heights mansion.

She was heard (by her teenage son) leaving the house at 5.00 am the next morning and hasn't been seen since.

Seems she ran out of money (her bank account has just $5K left in it) and luck and decided enough was enough and jumped off the Gap. Her decomposed foot has been found in a shoe washed up on a South Coast beach.

In news that has sent the S Bend into its usual orgasm of schadenfreud-as-dick-size, Dan Andrews has gone arse over tit down the stairs at his home and is now in intensive care with cracked ribs and as-yet-unassessed spinal damage.

Sounds like he was very lucky to escape a more serious injury.

I see Anthony Mundine got snotted with a first round KO & has now retired from boxing. Long overdue.

Professional whinger who now needs a new soapbox.

An unwelcome pestilence returns...and it's nothing to do with COVID

Pomgolian Nick Hockley gets the permanent gig as CA CEO.

I see Ollie Robinson has been canned because of alleged racist tweets he made nine years ago when 18 y.o. Funny that this has only surfaced now.

I see Jeff Bezos landed safely after his flying dildo touched spce this morning...

Reminds me of Sam Walsh's heat map on the weekend:

JGK wrote:Reminds me of Sam Walsh's heat map on the weekend:

Most likely those nasty-looking spots can be fixed with a dose of penicillin

16 handballs? How did he avoid a red card?