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    If you trained for five years…

    It’s especially strange because Ireland has produced about a million great sportsmen, musicians, writers, actors… and zero good painters. The lad that won wasn’t even the best creative artist in his own family.
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    If you trained for five years…

    I was talking to someone who got very close for middle distance running in his 20s. He said the most common barrier isn’t potential max cardio, it’s the injuries. Most people’s joints can’t handle the training regime that would get them to that kind of level. It’s a weak link system, when you do...
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    ***Official*** NFL thread and Things Pro Football

    How come it's Hurts you're excited about and not your boy Love? Great time to be a Packers fan, even by the standards of the past 30+ years.
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    If you trained for five years…

    I don’t think so. It was never part of PE for us. I don’t think I’d even heard of it until I was in my 20s. There’s probably a bit more of it around now with EU immigration, but not much. There’s a different Irish sport called handball, it’s a bit like squash where you use your hand instead of...
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    If you trained for five years…

    It's just a sport that more or less doesn't exist in Ireland. It's like thinking that with 5 years of training you could become one of the top 5 Nguni stick fighters in Norway. It's obviously not because you think Nguni stick fighting is easy.
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    If you trained for five years…

    I know sailing is physically demanding as ****, but we're talking about Olympic sports here. Some of the competitors in sailing almost look like actual humans. Others have said shooting, but with our recent history? I'd have no chance.
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    If you trained for five years…

    Realistically none, but my best shot would be something like Handball, one of the few Olympic sports that Ireland has no tradition of whatsoever. For the purposes of the thought experiment let’s pretend qualification isn’t a problem. Sailing is an option too. An ultra-low participation sport...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    The idea of playing Premier League games overseas is being floated again. He's referring to that, not the pre-season tours.
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    *Official* West Indies Tour of England, JULY 9th to 25th, 2024-- 3 TEST MATCHES

    Dublin?? You disgust me.
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    Ireland v Zimbabwe at Belfast

    Nice to get bailed out by the glorious Irish sunshine this morning, after we were robbed of a victory by the foul English rain in 2019.
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    *Official* West Indies Tour of England, JULY 9th to 25th, 2024-- 3 TEST MATCHES

    Why must cricketers always eat lunch at lunch time? I feel like every single day my 40 minutes of peace coincides with a window of no cricket.
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    Ireland v Zimbabwe at Belfast

    The keeper isn’t great, the ball is swinging, and the bowlers have been quick but inaccurate. Bit of a perfect storm for a million byes.
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    Ireland v Zimbabwe at Belfast

    Quality spell from Chivanga.
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    Ireland v Zimbabwe at Belfast

    I missed the ninja edit and spent ages down a rabbit hole trying to find the test match that was played in Scotland.
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    Maybe, it’s not really for me to say. The Suarez one was really bad too. The uncertainty about what exactly was said and what was intended bailed him out a bit. If it was recorded on video, and if Evra’s description of it is reasonably accurate, it might have impacted his career more.
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    **Official** English Football Season 2024/25

    I think they might end up having to sell him. It’s so much more racist than any of the other player racism scandals I can remember.
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    *Official* West Indies Tour of England, JULY 9th to 25th, 2024-- 3 TEST MATCHES

    Looked like we might have a game on there but this bowling is so toothless.
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    *Official* West Indies Tour of England, JULY 9th to 25th, 2024-- 3 TEST MATCHES

    Yeah first time seeing him today and this was my first thought too.
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    *Official* West Indies Tour of England, JULY 9th to 25th, 2024-- 3 TEST MATCHES

    I think a lot of the England camp's frustration with the media comes from this lack of specifics, because when you see McCullum talk about batting, it's all about particular shots and how and when to play them. But when pundits ask questions it's like "I see someone got out playing a vaguely...
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    *Official* West Indies Tour of England, JULY 9th to 25th, 2024-- 3 TEST MATCHES

    I don't really agree that they would score more runs if they always aimed to hit long hops into the ground rather than in the air. They'd hit fewer 4s and no 6s, and it's a more difficult technique so they might still get out just as often. But tbf this is a coherent argument you're making now...

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