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Oct 2019
1:15pm, 23 Oct 2019
18,248 posts
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Nicholls595
"You'll never meet a nice South African" got a run out on the Rugby World Cup thread last week
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Oct 2019
1:15pm, 23 Oct 2019
115,541 posts
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GregP
It's a very fine song 
Pool H closed.
Torvill and Dean (1984): gross 15, net 11 (Progresses to next round)
Sir Henry Cooper (1967, 1970): gross 11, net 7 (Progresses to next round)
Brendan Foster (1974): gross 8, net 4 (Progresses to next round)
John Surtees (1959): gross 3, net -1 (Eliminated)
Dorothy Hyman (1963): gross 2, net -2 (Eliminated)
Michael Owen (1998): gross 2, net -2 (Eliminated)
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Oct 2019
1:19pm, 23 Oct 2019
115,542 posts
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GregP
Pool I closed
Sir Ian Botham (1981): gross 12, net 8 (Progresses to next round)
Fatima Whitbread (1987): gross 11, net 7 (Progresses to next round)
Jonathan Edwards (1995): gross 8, net 4 (Progresses to next round)
Mo Farah (2017): gross 6, net 2 (Progresses to next round)
Virginia Wade (1977): gross 3, net -1 (Eliminated)
Dai Rees (1957): gross 1, net -3 (Eliminated)
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Oct 2019
1:31pm, 23 Oct 2019
21,468 posts
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Maclennane
We all know a Daley victory to kick off Movember is The Right Result
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Oct 2019
1:34pm, 23 Oct 2019
24,393 posts
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Wriggling Snake
I found Daley, during the recent world champs quite annoying, he just seemed so off-hand with everything, probably how he coped with his training, and actually said very little of any use, but that is par for the course bar Michael Johnson.
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Oct 2019
2:18pm, 23 Oct 2019
19,829 posts
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TRO Saracen
Daley came to our work for a motivational speech type thing. He was excellent, especially the anecdotes about his great rival (Hinxman or something?), with who he became, and still is, great mates.
I still voted Jonny, mind, because decathlon is an obscure athletic backwater about which we only give a flying stuff if we have a medal contender. And there’s only ever about 4 them at a decent level worldwide....
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Oct 2019
2:24pm, 23 Oct 2019
18,249 posts
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Nicholls595
...and Jonny used to give half time, motivational team talks, in French!
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Oct 2019
2:51pm, 23 Oct 2019
115,544 posts
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GregP
Pool J closed.
Daley Thompson (1982): gross 23, net 19 (Progresses to next round)
Jonny Wilkinson (2003): gross 9, net 5 (Progresses to next round)
Geraint Thomas (2018): gross 4, net 0 (Eliminated)
Sir Jackie Stewart (1973): gross 3, net -1 (Eliminated)
Nigel Mansell (1986, 1992): gross 1, net -3 (Eliminated)
Zara Phillips (2006): gross 1, net -3 (Eliminated)
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Oct 2019
2:58pm, 23 Oct 2019
115,545 posts
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GregP
42 go through to round 2. Daley Thompson is top seed and gets a bye into round 3 along with 22 others - just nine fixtures including two all-athletics ties plus Gazza v Ryan Giggs
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Oct 2019
3:31pm, 23 Oct 2019
21,469 posts
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Maclennane
Did Mo get a bye? Lovely runner, but let's not go pretending he's got a personality
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