Alex

BBC News reporting of this is fucking disgusting btw. The fucking moment it’s calmed down they’re doing their ‘balanced’ reporting. They’re absolutely appalling

Alan Wells 👍🏻

Sensational performance. Not as good as some of the races, in the sense it was a race for silver but wow!

Just showed my kids that old Femke Bol / Mickey Mouse interview on YouTube and they would not have it that it was her real voice

Beamon’s was a mental jump. Albeit at altitude. Lynn Davies was actually one of the favourites, as reigning champion. Beamon’s jump, apart from adding more than half a metre to the world record was about 80 centimetres longer than Davies’ jump four years before. That’s absolutely insane. Ie 10% or thereabouts longer Beamon supposedly got close in training but never came near again in competition. But when you watch the footage he looks like he nearly jumps out the pit.

Anderson will end up chinning him at some point.

I remember that. They are a weird cut like imo. 501s not Renton’s nads

Or what Gemmill just said

Don’t know the answer but assume the rights for players names are due to their registrations with associations. I think professional players are ultimately registered with FIFA in effect via the association of the country they play in. To make rules of international call ups, bans etc. the same. So the players would still feature in FIFA as before. Konami would just be the club’s official video game partner or whatever. Speaking of Konami, I used to love International Superstar Soccer on the N64

Season 2: And of course, the genocide

Which of them is 29?

Robbie Rotten?

Ducking twang

Yeah I just spotted that I genuinely made a lot less spelling and grammatical mistakes before autocorrect. Makes you think

I love a happy ending

Having it both ways is his modus operandi tbh (see Brexit)

I think it was Gothenburg at the world championships where Edwards smashed the world triple jump record. Only to break it again about half an hour later. The pressure got to him at Atlanta and he ‘only’ won Olympic silver there the following year. He was so good he was still the best in the world 4 years later, winning at the Sydney Olympics. My uncle used to work for Gateshead council and would often use the gym at Gateshead Stadium. He bumped into Edwards there a lot. Apart from saying he was a genuinely lovely fella he also commented on how he could lift insane weights. Especially squats. More than all these blokes in there about twice his size. That’s part of the reason he was so good. Obviously he had great speed on the runway. He was technically brilliant too. The best description I can think of is someone saying most triple jumpers are like a bouncing ball but he was like a stone skimming over water. Maintaining the speed through all the stages. But his power to weight ratio too. He was slightly built compared to most triple jumpers

3 stars. Flawed but interesting

Hudson-Smith so unlucky there. Another incredible race as well. 5th fastest time ever and it sets you silver!

Don’t mock. Give him a year or three and he’ll be knocking on your door selling overpriced sponge scourers. Why are they always from Teesside btw?

Another factor which I think will be annoying him is that’s it looking less and less likely he will be able to relocate to an America with Trump as president. Which I think was one of his backup plans

You have to feel for dear old Nige. Walking that tightrope between avoiding serious prison time and appealing to racist fuckwits

There’s a lass I went to school with who is like that but it’s always missing persons. Almost without fail someone will reply to let her know they’ve been found safe and well. Several months earlier. And you can tell she doesn’t give a fuck (or more likely is actually disappointed they’re ok)

I didn’t twig. Although I remember reading an article about it a while back. Looks a bit like his dad too

That Latvian lass in the javelin btw