| Forum Reply | Beautiful women sports stars at 13:54 16 Nov 2024
Surviving women’s world records from the 1980s: 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 4x400m. Heptathlon, High Jump, Long Jump, Discus, Shot https://trackandfieldnews.com/records/womens-world-records/ Only Flo-Jo and Jackie-Joyner Kersee standing up for the Free World. There’s only one surviving men’s record from the 80s, the Hammer, but quite a few from the 90s, eg High Jump, Long Jump, 1500m, 4x400m. |
| Forum Reply | Beautiful women sports stars at 09:42 16 Nov 2024
I mostly agree, but the ambition of the athletes to succeed within a system that otherwise gave them nothing played a small part. When East Germany fell, researchers found a letter from Marita Koch (still 400m world record holder) to the athletic authorities complaining that Bärbel Wöckel was getting better steroids because her uncle ran a pharmaceutical company. |
| Forum Reply | Beautiful women sports stars at 23:29 15 Nov 2024
41 years on, still holds the 800m world record, the oldest on the books. Kids today, just aren’t willing to put the effort in. [Post edited 15 Nov 23:31]
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| Forum Reply | Bluesky at 09:56 15 Nov 2024
Just need Danny P to show us the Irish Tricolour fluttering over Mars, or “The Rebel Planet” as it will be renamed. [Post edited 15 Nov 10:07]
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| Forum Reply | Bluesky at 09:41 15 Nov 2024
Crystal Palestine |
| Forum Reply | Bluesky at 15:06 14 Nov 2024
275m did seem improbable given its lack of public impact! |
| Forum Reply | Bluesky at 12:51 14 Nov 2024
I imagine even the Green Party is a lot less civil these days, given their expulsions and lawsuits. I was reading on Bloomberg today that Bluesky users have increased from 10m in September to 15m this week. Threads has 275m. Another resemblance to the Green Party? [Post edited 14 Nov 12:51]
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| Forum Reply | Bluesky at 21:59 11 Nov 2024
I gave it up years ago, but I wouldn’t replace it with a knock-off. I prefer communities based around my interests (not necessarily my priors), rather than all-comers. |
| Forum Reply | Half decent tv at 21:53 11 Nov 2024
After a 9 year wait, the second series of Wolf Hall has arrived on the BBC. I probably should have watched the first again to remind myself who all these characters are and what they want (not helped by some of them having to be recast since) so it takes a lot of concentration and careful listening but it is well worth the effort. Looks amazing, commands your attention, a real treat. |
| Forum Reply | RIP Quincy Jones at 08:47 4 Nov 2024
I thought he was going to live forever. What a career! |
| Forum Reply | Half-time entertainment at 14:32 3 Nov 2024
I said to the man next to me, they’re on a hiding to nothing here. Either, “anyone can do that” or “they can’t even do that”. Even round-the-pole would have been a better idea. |
| Forum Reply | Sunderland fans. at 09:54 3 Nov 2024
Apart from ten minutes after the red card, absolutely deafening. They deserve a bit of glee after the last ten years, good luck to them. |
| Forum Reply | Kieran Morgan at 21:09 2 Nov 2024
Yep, six feet I imagine, a bit skinny. |
| Forum Reply | Kieran Morgan at 20:51 2 Nov 2024
I’m not sure about the last statement. Sunderland were slicing us apart minutes 10-35 and from half time to the red card. |
| Forum Reply | Referee today at 20:31 2 Nov 2024
Sunderland fans might not agree, but I thought he pitched his tolerance of physical contact right and stuck to it rather than hopping about. No doubt about the red card and extra points for the early yellow card for their keeper. |
| Forum Reply | Kieran Morgan at 20:17 2 Nov 2024
Extremely impressive in the first half, always looking to get the ball quickly forward on the ground, seems to make his mind up before he gets the ball. Varane looked good breaking up their possession but dithered on the ball by comparison and wasn’t able to find players free. Morgan faded out after an hour but I imagine Marti didn’t think he had a better option. |
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