| Why are we so rubbish..... 19:41 - Aug 3 with 2808 views | Bloots |
....at the "heavy" throwing athletic events??
Specifically the shot putt, hammer and discus?
I can only remember Geoff Capes ever being any good and that was 40-50 years ago.
We've got more than our fair share of fatties around, so I just don't get why we are so crap at it. |  |
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| Why are we so rubbish..... on 19:48 - Aug 3 with 2754 views | Reus30 |
But it's not fatties though is it.
It's a cultural thing and you just need to look at the athletes that compete now. They are so gigantic (height, size, muscle mass) that we just simply don't have that really. I mean the dude in 3rd has a neck which must be like 40 inches!
Granted we have a couple of strongman who are units but we just don't have facilities (like schools or training facilities) to create athletes of that nature. Plus, the fact we don't do throwing in PE at all. It's all middle distance, cross country bs. |  | | |
| Nah, I'm not buying it.... on 19:52 - Aug 3 with 2721 views | Bloots |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 19:48 - Aug 3 by Reus30 |
But it's not fatties though is it.
It's a cultural thing and you just need to look at the athletes that compete now. They are so gigantic (height, size, muscle mass) that we just simply don't have that really. I mean the dude in 3rd has a neck which must be like 40 inches!
Granted we have a couple of strongman who are units but we just don't have facilities (like schools or training facilities) to create athletes of that nature. Plus, the fact we don't do throwing in PE at all. It's all middle distance, cross country bs. |
....the shot putt specifically should be one of the most accessible of all field events.
You literally just need a massive metal ball, you don't even need much room to do it.
I'm gonna learn it.
Watch me in LA 2028. | |
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| Why are we so rubbish..... on 19:54 - Aug 3 with 2714 views | Daninthecampo |
I've always wondered this too, even the javelin we had Fatima, Tessa and Backley but that was what 20-40 years ago.
Seems like an Easy option to become British number one! |  | | |
| Nah, I'm not buying it.... on 19:55 - Aug 3 with 2712 views | Reus30 |
| Nah, I'm not buying it.... on 19:52 - Aug 3 by Bloots |
....the shot putt specifically should be one of the most accessible of all field events.
You literally just need a massive metal ball, you don't even need much room to do it.
I'm gonna learn it.
Watch me in LA 2028. |
Just like an olympic sport, it only takes one athlete to take the sport to the next level!
No jokes, I'm off to get back into air rifling next week. The Olympics and that absolute meme of a lad (from turkey I think) has inspired me. | | | |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 20:20 - Aug 3 with 2606 views | NthQldITFC |
We'd be great if the projectiles were bricks, wheelie bins and restaurant chairs, and if the target wasn't a nice bit of grass but a riot shield or some halfwit neanderthal's cobblers. |  |
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| Why are we so rubbish..... on 20:24 - Aug 3 with 2567 views | leitrimblue |
Is it because the UKs heavier set athletes appear to choose darts over the traditional Olympic events?
A gold medal or the glamour and girls that come with a successful career at the oche. |  | | |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 20:26 - Aug 3 with 2558 views | Reuser_is_God |
No plastic chair is it. |  |
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| Why are we so rubbish..... on 20:30 - Aug 3 with 2542 views | RIPbobby |
Bring back geoff capes. :) |  | | |
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| Why are we so rubbish..... on 20:30 - Aug 3 with 2537 views | J2BLUE |
We've got more than our fair share of fatties around
We prefer to be called space challenged. We're all too afraid to throw anything round away in case it turns out it was a new flavour of giant oreo. [Post edited 3 Aug 2024 20:31]
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| Why are we so rubbish..... on 20:33 - Aug 3 with 2496 views | redrickstuhaart |
We have drug law enforcement? | | | |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 20:53 - Aug 3 with 2416 views | Rocky |
Maybe we don't want to end up looking like Irina and Tamara Press. |  | | |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 21:15 - Aug 3 with 2353 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
I reckon the best at tossing the caber are probably British but it isn't an Olympic sport for some reason. |  |
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| Why are we so rubbish..... on 01:14 - Aug 4 with 2105 views | Perublue |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 21:15 - Aug 3 by Nthsuffolkblue |
I reckon the best at tossing the caber are probably British but it isn't an Olympic sport for some reason. |
If there was just tossing I’d be the GOAT especially based on my teenage years,although it would be the first Olympics when whoever comes first … loses in the mixed doubles.
Soggy biscuit would be my best stroke. |  |
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| Why are we so rubbish..... on 02:37 - Aug 4 with 2054 views | jontysnut |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 20:30 - Aug 3 by RIPbobby |
Bring back geoff capes. :) |
Or Ipswich's very own Bill Tancred in the discus |  | | |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 07:53 - Aug 4 with 1898 views | NedPlimpton |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 20:26 - Aug 3 by Reuser_is_God |
No plastic chair is it. |
More like bricks aimed at riot police these days |  | | |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 08:17 - Aug 4 with 1843 views | Keno |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 02:37 - Aug 4 by jontysnut |
Or Ipswich's very own Bill Tancred in the discus |
Why do we need to talk about it? |  |
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| Why are we so rubbish..... on 09:36 - Aug 4 with 1745 views | DJR |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 02:37 - Aug 4 by jontysnut |
Or Ipswich's very own Bill Tancred in the discus |
And when it comes to the javelin, there was Charles Clover, from Copleston, who in 1974 aged 18 set a European record and won a Commonwealth gold.
Sadly, he never achieved much after that. |  | | |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 09:40 - Aug 4 with 1727 views | Bluespeed225 |
Plenty of flesh available if they introduce ‘half brick chucking’ as a discipline. Ages from 16 to 60! | | | |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 09:43 - Aug 4 with 1702 views | ronnyd |
Not enough steroids? | | | |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 10:02 - Aug 4 with 1648 views | Swansea_Blue |
I served Fatima Whitbread in Warren Heath Sainsburys once. She was a stacked lass - muscles on top of muscles 💪 |  |
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| Why are we so rubbish..... on 10:15 - Aug 4 with 1608 views | NthQldITFC |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 10:02 - Aug 4 by Swansea_Blue |
I served Fatima Whitbread in Warren Heath Sainsburys once. She was a stacked lass - muscles on top of muscles 💪 |
I didn't know Sainsburys had a shellfish counter back then. | |
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| Why are we so rubbish..... on 10:42 - Aug 4 with 1553 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 10:15 - Aug 4 by NthQldITFC |
I didn't know Sainsburys had a shellfish counter back then. |
Yep. And we made her feel very whelkome | |
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| Why are we so rubbish..... on 11:04 - Aug 4 with 1490 views | Cafe_Newman |
As a nation we excel at "sitting down sports": motor racing, rowing, sailing, cycling, anything on a horse, throwing crunched up balls of paper from behind a desks into a bin 3 metres away. Until they introduce shot putt, hammer and discus from a chair, the East Europeans will continue to cash in. |  | | |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 12:03 - Aug 4 with 1393 views | ronnyd |
| Why are we so rubbish..... on 10:42 - Aug 4 by Swansea_Blue |
Yep. And we made her feel very whelkome |
That's a load of old molluscs. | | | |
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