http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38663 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:04:24 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38663#post-109969 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:03:28 +0000 Golgo13 109969@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Frisbee good. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38663#post-109962 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:07:06 +0000 rickwestwell 109962@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Great stuff Golgo. Maybe instead of a coconut for shot-put, something more outrageously cheating, like a frisbee? Or a starling? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38663#post-109925 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:12:18 +0000 button 109925@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Very funny...its gold </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38663#post-109889 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:47:16 +0000 ianslat 109889@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Japanese TV is great! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38663#post-109882 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:16:45 +0000 Golgo13 109882@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Japanese TV show "Hey! Spring of Trivia" once paid steroid-shame sprinter Ben Johnson to run on a 114 meter travelator in Kobe, to see how fast he could go... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38663#post-109813 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:20:23 +0000 Perks 109813@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nice. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38663#post-109801 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:28:33 +0000 ianslat 109801@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like it.</p> <p>I'm sure I could do better than 9.82 though. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38663#post-109709 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:27:48 +0000 Golgo13 109709@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks. You know this is counted as the 30th Summer Olympics by the IOC.</p> <p>So it's officially the XXX Olympiad. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38663#post-109610 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:45:46 +0000 ronseal 109610@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like it</p> <p>The foreigners all use travelators too. But somehow they get away with it </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38663#post-109542 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:52:49 +0000 writinginbsl 109542@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>very funny indeed</p> <p>stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38663#post-109527 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:47:17 +0000 Immunis 109527@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>simple, clever a gold award </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38663#post-109523 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:12:08 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 109523@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nice </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38663#post-109516 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:39:08 +0000 dvo4fun 109516@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Mad. And very good </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38663#post-109469 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:55:06 +0000 waylandsmithy 109469@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nicely done! Love it! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38663#post-109454 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:13:59 +0000 Golgo13 109454@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>London 2012 hopeful, Fergus Mason (33) has been removed from consideration for the British Olympic 100m squad and could be banned from the sport for life after tests revealed his qualifying trial time of 9.82 seconds set at the weekend was achieved on one of the travelators (moving walkways) at London’s Heathrow Airport.</p> <p>Team GB officials initially welcomed the news that the Hampshire-based veteran had improved his personal best by nearly two seconds, and were already pencilling him in for the anchor leg in the mens 4 x 100m relay team, but eye-witness reports from workers at Terminal 5 made it clear that he had used a travelator – a practice prohibited under IAAF rules.</p> <p>This isn’t the first time Mason has landed in hot water over using performance-enhancing devices – he was stripped of a bronze medal in the shot-put at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth games after video footage showed he had used a coconut. </p>