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Post by snowwhite on Apr 18, 2020 7:44:30 GMT -5
I almost never watch football, but I must say I'm intrigued listening to the bits on the sports section of Today when they discuss the current season of the English Premiership and how it now seems to be about player contracts (expiring end of June) and all the money promised for television rights. I think they've given up on the idea of completing all 92 of the remaining games within any reasonable time-scale.
It's a bit like when the F1 championship was decided after the races had been completed by three men arguing the technical details of the cars' compliance with various arbitrary regulations.
Mr Snow and I were also wondering how the TdF would work if they really do go ahead with an August start date... presumably they'd have daily (or twice-daily) testing of all riders and other personnel, which could mean a really interesting race if most of the main favourite got knocked out at various strategic points.
I've wondered about whether if would be possible to stage the World Championship snooker, and when I suggested this on Twitter I got a response saying County Cricket might be OK - neither the players, nor the half dozen or so spectators normally get within 2 metres of each other in the ordinary way of things.
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Post by tucano on Apr 18, 2020 7:52:40 GMT -5
I do wonder if the Tour will go ahead with the revised date. I'd actually like to go over and watch it for a weekend but obviously not booking anything yet.
The Tour is about 1000 people inc peloton, team staff, TV etc.
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Post by riverhorse on Apr 18, 2020 10:13:25 GMT -5
One of the first things PG did was cancel his subscription for a sports channel. No point when there's no sport on. Once the rugby and Bundesliga are back up and running (whenever that may be) I imagine he'll be reactivating it!
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Post by snowwhite on Apr 18, 2020 14:00:31 GMT -5
I do wonder if the Tour will go ahead with the revised date. I'd actually like to go over and watch it for a weekend but obviously not booking anything yet. The Tour is about 1000 people inc peloton, team staff, TV etc. Yes, we went up to Yorkshire in 2014. Huge operation. |
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Post by kneazle on Apr 18, 2020 15:53:15 GMT -5
I heard the other day that apparently there's been a push to have a global rugby season which the IRB have been resistant to but this might push them into it.
There were 2 or 3 rounds of the big rugby and rugby league competition in the Southern Hemisphere before they were canned.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Apr 18, 2020 21:25:07 GMT -5
I’m weeping crocodile tears because our football players have been told that in future they might need to have a real job! When I was growing up, players were things like doctors, teachers and garbage collectors, and didn’t get paid obscene amounts of money.
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Post by whothingie on Apr 19, 2020 18:27:01 GMT -5
I just want to scream at the TV when the NRL bosses keep going on about starting a contact sport (even without spectators) at some stupidly early date when this outbreak isn't fully understood or even contained.
I admire those who have accepted the paycuts without fuss, promoted charitable and helpful work, kept up their at home fitness regimes, and as I saw (no idea who he was or what sport he played), has got stuck into online learning acknowledging that sport may never be the same again so he will need to have a fall back career.
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Post by mei on Apr 20, 2020 8:47:48 GMT -5
The men in my house are not happy about the lack of soccer at the moment....  I do wonder when things will slowly start again. I suppose some sport is easier to restart, especially if it's done without an audience (tennis, athletics maybe, swimming). But! I do now have a collector's item at home - since I already bought my Tokyo 2020 merchandise back in October.... |
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Post by tzarine on Jun 29, 2020 15:20:52 GMT -5
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jun 30, 2020 5:20:09 GMT -5
This photo was taken in Solomon Islands in January.  |
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Post by Queen on Jul 26, 2020 6:04:55 GMT -5
Wimbledon was cancelled early.
I haven't cared about sport since then.
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Post by kneazle on Jul 26, 2020 17:25:55 GMT -5
NZ NBA basketballer Steven Adams was asked about what it's like being in lock down at the Disney resort where all the players are staying so they can play his response? It's fine I mean it's not Syria is it it's a resort.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 26, 2020 23:45:14 GMT -5
i love steven adams' sense of humour
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Post by sophie on Jul 26, 2020 23:47:43 GMT -5
Watching baseball games on tv without fans in the stands is weird. Same for soccer.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Jul 27, 2020 1:11:27 GMT -5
Community sport is back here but it is one parent per child allowed on the sidelines so I haven't been for a few weeks.
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Post by snowwhite on Jul 27, 2020 12:17:38 GMT -5
Community sport is back here but it is one parent per child allowed on the sidelines so I haven't been for a few weeks. Probably a win? I think they had sport-with-spectators here for some species of cricket... limited numbers with family groups well-spaced or something. |
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Jul 27, 2020 17:17:46 GMT -5
Community sport is back here but it is one parent per child allowed on the sidelines so I haven't been for a few weeks. Probably a win? I think they had sport-with-spectators here for some species of cricket... limited numbers with family groups well-spaced or something. I'll be doing the away games.  I was a bit upset last Saturday when Clipper mentioned one of the other parents who had made it - I haven't seen her since Feb and we get on well. Not someone I'd ring up and suggest meeting up but for the past 3 years has been a sidelines friend on Saturday mornings. |
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Post by tzarine on Jun 18, 2021 16:24:53 GMT -5
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