"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
Why do Scotland have to be half decent at such boring sports? Curling, bowls, snooker...zzzz!
OK, I have to admit that I do like watching the snooker sometimes, but I wish Scotland would actually achieve something in a sport that is actually popular, like football. I guess the Danes have the exact same small country syndrome...
Snooker is real fun to play...but not too fun to watch. Curling is extremely boring. My opinion on this won't change as long as there aren't any Kenyans playing
LK wrote:
Norway won all their matches ecxept the final
stupid scotland:x
........
you watched?
stuartmcstuart wrote:
Why do Scotland have to be half decent at such boring sports? Curling, bowls, snooker...zzzz!
OK, I have to admit that I do like watching the snooker sometimes, but I wish Scotland would actually achieve something in a sport that is actually popular, like football.
"Scottish definition of a sport is extremely tiring and physical, isn't it? hit the ball, get in the cart.............hit the ball, sit in the cart...." - Robin Williams
stuartmcstuart wrote:
I guess the Danes have the exact same small country syndrome...
being a small country is very far from being the deciding factor. it's all about infrastructure and how well organized and set up it is Edited by issoisso on 08-12-2007 18:52
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
being a small country is very far from being the deciding factor. it's all about infrastructure and how well organized and set up it is
To an extent, yes. However I wouldn't say its a major factor anymore: most countries, certainly within Europe, have an organized structure for their sport. We spend loads developing our sports, but its not enough when the talent isn't actually there. We suck at athletics, for example, and yet we have sports schools, academies, youth coaching...no atheletes at the top level.
Thats why we excel at sports not popular in larger countries...
well, it's not a question of genetics as we're all human. there are some genetics differences between peoples (Congo-basin africans being amazing sprinters and sucking balls at endurance, Eastern Africans the other way around. these are just small examples), but they're usually small. and inside europe there's basically no case to be made with it at all.
it's a combination of infrastructure and mentality and something there is missing
Edited by issoisso on 08-12-2007 19:43
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
Crommy wrote:
Not necessarily - twins they may be, but their DNA may be totally different, even if they look identical
nope
They come from the same fertilized egg, which had only one complete set of DNA in the first place. That fertilized egg and its single set of DNA split to form twin embryos-each with its own set of DNA, identical to the other. One small quibble: the DNA sets will be identical, unless one fertilized egg's DNA mutates. Such mutations, however, are normally so tiny that DNA analysis can't detect them.
the only thing different between them will be their fingerprints
Edited by issoisso on 08-12-2007 21:56
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
and play's snooker
