http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28622 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 22 May 2013 23:37:32 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28622#post-80222 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:55:08 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 80222@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Couldn't say for sure dvo, not sure who it was with. Think it might have been my uncle, is that you? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28622#post-80220 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:39:27 +0000 dvo4fun 80220@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>VCG - are you sure it wasn't us who had that conversation?? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28622#post-80132 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:35:51 +0000 be reasonable 80132@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"Are you a pole-vaulter?"<br /> "No, I am a German and my name isn't Walter".<br /> © Tim Vine.<br /> Stars. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28622#post-80106 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:11:49 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 80106@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like it.</p> <p>Had a conversation with somebody before about the logic behind Olympic events - see how fast you can run, how far you can jump, how high you can jump - all perfectly sensible.</p> <p>See how far you can jump with a hop, step and a jump - a bit odd.</p> <p>Run along as fast as you can, stick a bloody great pole in the ground and see how high you can launch yourself - genius. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=28622#post-80095 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:31:07 +0000 dvo4fun 80095@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"It's very popular with the other athletes and with the petroleum jelly industry." </p> <p>Speaking at the end of last weekend's U.K. athletics World Championship trials, Olympic Gold Medalist from 2000, Jonathan Edwards, fiercly rejected recent media claims that walking races are just 'ministry-of-silly-walks' entertainment, rather than a genuine athletic endeavour.</p> <p>"Yes, it's true that the other athletes do find the walking extremely amusing. Much the same as watching bicycles ridden by extremely fat men in tight shorts, ideally when they fall over. Or a care-in-the-community case on X Factor. You know it's wrong to laugh, but somehow, especially if there's no one else in the room, you can't stop yourself. But to suggest that the walking is only a joke is surely to miss the point completely; it is so much more than that."</p> <p>Edwards, who has built a new career as a BBC commentator since retiring from professional athletics, went on to explain "Most importantly, competitive walking takes the focus off my own event [triple jump, or 'hop-step-and-jump' as most people may better know it]as being the most pointless sporting discipline since the Egg &amp; Spoon and Sack races lost their Olympic status." </p>