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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/ ... c-proposal

I suppose we should have expected this, after all there is the dancing gymnastics and moves to introduce competitive ballroom dancing.
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Plus surfing climbing and skateboarding. If it's competitive and got some physical excertion, then why not. As long as we keep shit like darts and snooker out, it's all good.
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It's a shame squash isn't in the Olympics. It's played in a number of countries around the world and isn't expensive like tennis. St least it's in the commonwealth games
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Being Tokyo, surprised female groping on trains isn't a trial sport put on by the hosts.
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I'm surprised this 'feats of strength' charade still exists in a so-called 'civilized-age'. Aren't we past all this bullshit now? Oh, that's right, it's sponsored by Nike and various other corporate concerns. Fucking vaguely fascist money-laundering exercise.
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theleader82 wrote:It's a shame squash isn't in the Olympics. It's played in a number of countries around the world and isn't expensive like tennis. St least it's in the commonwealth games


You played squash, Leado?

It is a fun game and I used to play it with over 50s - one guy was a bit chubby and would win pretty much 13-2, 13-4 etc every time - think he ended up just giving me points.

A fantastic sport, although getting leathered by the ba' at the back o' yer heid is fucking painful and takes a good while for the bruise to clear.
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carcinogen wrote:I'm surprised this 'feats of strength' charade still exists in a so-called 'civilized-age'. Aren't we past all this bullshit now? Oh, that's right, it's sponsored by Nike and various other corporate concerns. Fucking vaguely fascist money-laundering exercise.

+1. It’s basically for workshy cunts who can run and jump a little and fancy a career afterwards fannying on 5Dead as Jessica Ennis-Hill does.

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kevin04 wrote:
theleader82 wrote:It's a shame squash isn't in the Olympics. It's played in a number of countries around the world and isn't expensive like tennis. St least it's in the commonwealth games


You played squash, Leado?

It is a fun game and I used to play it with over 50s - one guy was a bit chubby and would win pretty much 13-2, 13-4 etc every time - think he ended up just giving me points.

A fantastic sport, although getting leathered by the ba' at the back o' yer heid is fucking painful and takes a good while for the bruise to clear.


Leonard Rossiter excelled at that game and regularly beat opponents many years his junior.
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kevin04 wrote:
theleader82 wrote:It's a shame squash isn't in the Olympics. It's played in a number of countries around the world and isn't expensive like tennis. St least it's in the commonwealth games


You played squash, Leado?

It is a fun game and I used to play it with over 50s - one guy was a bit chubby and would win pretty much 13-2, 13-4 etc every time - think he ended up just giving me points.

A fantastic sport, although getting leathered by the ba' at the back o' yer heid is fucking painful and takes a good while for the bruise to clear.

I started to play in the late 80s as a youngster. It's was more popular back then with the advent of health clubs and they'd even show it on grandstand. Jonah barrington was a minor celeb from the squad world but jahangir and jansher Khan were the legends of the sport back then. I got in my county squad but I was one of the worst there . I've not played for a few years but I got a racketball set not long ago, fancy getting into that as it's easier to play.
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theleader82 wrote:
kevin04 wrote:
theleader82 wrote:It's a shame squash isn't in the Olympics. It's played in a number of countries around the world and isn't expensive like tennis. St least it's in the commonwealth games


You played squash, Leado?

It is a fun game and I used to play it with over 50s - one guy was a bit chubby and would win pretty much 13-2, 13-4 etc every time - think he ended up just giving me points.

A fantastic sport, although getting leathered by the ba' at the back o' yer heid is fucking painful and takes a good while for the bruise to clear.

I started to play in the late 80s as a youngster. It's was more popular back then with the advent of health clubs and they'd even show it on grandstand. Jonah barrington was a minor celeb from the squad world but jahangir and jansher Khan were the legends of the sport back then. I got in my county squad but I was one of the worst there . I've not played for a few years but I got a racketball set not long ago, fancy getting into that as it's easier to play.

I played it for a couple of years in the mid eighties when I lived in Reading. The place I worked had a deal with a fitness club and I tried that to see what it was like and found that I quite enjoyed it. Wasn't shit at it but I wasn't troubling any serious players either. I only started going to the place because I liked a sauna and then a drink afterwards. Yep, they had a bar. Ahh the eighties!

Im pretty sure that that was the start of my back problems though, I stopped playing after pulling something and never got back into it afterwards. Of course I weighed a fuck load less than I do now back then.
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