Gold Coast Comm Games
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Maybe one for the Stuff thread...
New Zealand have never won a Commonwealth Games hockey gold medal. Over the past five Games, the Black Sticks women's side has collected one silver (at Delhi in 2010) and two silver after making the medal round each time.
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@bovidae said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
I changed the channel to see them walking around the field and O'Hanlon looked a lot taller than Rutherford, so a bigger body in goal.
Also more athletic apparently. Saw an interview with her and she said it was preplanned, she considered it a speciality and did extra training and scouting work on opposition players. Given how those shoot outs went seems like there's a genuine niche for a specialist. Very different to open field play.
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Cull swimming
The perfect test for swimming? Be a passenger on a capsized boat 5 kilometres metres from land. You have to swim to shore to save your life. Would you get there using butterfly?
We could dump backstroke too.
Swimming on your back should be kept as the resort of those who can't swim freestyle well - the holiday pool dippers. There's a reason they don't have a backwards running event - and that reason is to avoid stupidity.
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@booboo said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Cull swimming
The perfect test for swimming? Be a passenger on a capsized boat 5 kilometres metres from land. You have to swim to shore to save your life. Would you get there using butterfly?
We could dump backstroke too.
Swimming on your back should be kept as the resort of those who can't swim freestyle well - the holiday pool dippers. There's a reason they don't have a backwards running event - and that reason is to avoid stupidity.
Or only have backstroke and butterfly in the medley.
Effectively the 'decathlon' of swimming
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@crucial said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Each event should have a unique skill. One swimmer shouldn't be able to collect a pile of medals for doing the same thing in different ways.
Surely that's a description of athletics, minus hurdling.
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@taniwharugby said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
@virgil in a PC world, it was kinda refreshing to see!
Don't get mad, get even!
Certainly gave him the boost he needed!
I think it’s great, yep he was a bit twatty at the finish but nothing like a bit of feeling to fuel a hopefully long standing and successful rivalry
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@mikethesnow said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
@crucial said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Each event should have a unique skill. One swimmer shouldn't be able to collect a pile of medals for doing the same thing in different ways.
Surely that's a description of athletics, minus hurdling.
Athletics isn't much better in areas, I agree. 100m and 200m has a big crossover in athletes, relays just reward countries with depth in the event. You could easily do a clean up of running events but it will never happen.
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@crucial said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
@mikethesnow said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
@crucial said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Each event should have a unique skill. One swimmer shouldn't be able to collect a pile of medals for doing the same thing in different ways.
Surely that's a description of athletics, minus hurdling.
Athletics isn't much better in areas, I agree. 100m and 200m has a big crossover in athletes, relays just reward countries with depth in the event. You could easily do a clean up of running events but it will never happen.
I think it's nuts that one of the greatest all time runners (bolt) won the same number of medals in his career as one of the greatest swimmers of all time won in each games.
I think they should make everyone do everything. Heats can be four separate races, with times added together, and then semis and finals are medley races.
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@virgil so many keyboard warriors having a crack
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@taniwharugby egged on by our drama seeking shit media organisations.
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@virgil said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
@taniwharugby egged on by our drama seeking shit media organisations.
It's such a fucking non-story. So they were a little bit bitchy after the race, seriously who fucking cares?
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@crucial said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Each event should have a unique skill. One swimmer shouldn't be able to collect a pile of medals for doing the same thing in different ways.
Yes freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke are exactly the same thing. As are the distances.
What about skiing then? Both downhill and cross country? Potentially heaps of medals to be won there. Just the same skill isn't?
I doubt anyone would be bitching if NZ were collecting these medals. Or anyone other than Australia.
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@bovidae said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Both have displayed that win-at-all costs attitude that we begrudgingly admire from Aust sportspeople.
I don't admire that. Sure winning is great, but not at all costs. A few Aussie cricketers understand that now I think.
