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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2021 21:44:13 GMT 1
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Post by Dominic Best on Aug 3, 2021 22:19:46 GMT 1
I was always a great disappointment to my father who was one of those annoying people who was good at just about any sport - Fly half in the Ireland 'B' squad, NI 25 mile time trial champion in cycling (and on a fixed wheel too!), badminton player and tennis player when all those sports were strictly amateur. His proudest moment was taking a set off a Wimbledon winner (although he lost the match). So when I showed no aptitude whatever for racquet sports and swam like a brick I could feel his disappointment. Maybe that's why I never really had an interest in tennis. Or swimming. Or badminton. Wasn't even a decent No 9. Could run a bit, though, and was a decent skier and karateka. He's 90 now and could probably still wallop me at tennis! At some time or another I beat every other player I played at squash except one, my father. I played him a lot over the years and he beat me every time. |
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Post by FFS on Aug 5, 2021 19:53:09 GMT 1
The latest Olympic gold medallist karateka is a Frenchman, Steven Da Costas (though with a name like that you have to wonder about his origins); he's perhaps the last Olympic gold medallist karateka as well, as karate won't be there in 2024 in Paris.
The French are regular users of the terms 'karateka' and 'judoka'.
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Post by ibis on Aug 5, 2021 21:52:04 GMT 1
Is Federer done for grand slams? will any of the 2 possible - the serb or the spaniard catch him?? or beat the record?
The womens game has kinda not been on my radar lately as Serena seems she will not win again after having a kid with that french bloke but there are some very good women on the tour but not to the likes of Maria Sharapova.
Many questions to be answered in tennis. Who takes over from the above 3 men and Serena is the biggest.
If it is on tv and there is nothing else but American reruns it is on in the background for noise.
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Post by ibis on Aug 5, 2021 22:05:50 GMT 1
Many moons ago, when at secondary school, the only sport I used to like was tennis 🎾. Everything else I always had girl pains. We used to have to do the whole Olympic routine plus baseball, American (flag) football, ice hockey, basketball and soccer (20 people running after the same ball) from 1st grade until a senoir in high school - only ice hockey was an olympic sport then. Whatever sports were in the Olympics we had to do, be it just for 1-2 days in our everyday 1 hour gym class or longer with every gymnastic or field event.. It did sort out the future champions and continue to does so but I hated almost all of them except the long distance running ( always finished 2nd to this guy from another school in our district), ice hockey(goalie), baseball (catcher with Uni scholarship). Nancy Reagan did a lot for the sports in schools if I remember correctly.
In France what I have encountered is nothing at all for the physical well being of the students - everything is after school and payable.
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Post by Jo in France on Aug 6, 2021 9:51:28 GMT 1
Never did like tennis, though I played badminton until I was about 66 -which was late! But the kids stopped playing with me because after I had my knee replacement I just couldn’t run hard enough, even though I could smash anyone if I did hit the shuttlecock. Pity, since then my health has gone downhill rapidly…
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2021 10:04:13 GMT 1
As no one has written a post for this seemingly abandoned thread I thought I would start it off. I hate tennis.
I took up tennis at the age of 40, luv. |
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Post by Nifty on Aug 6, 2021 10:56:00 GMT 1
What kind of sadism is ‘karateka’?🙀 I thought it was an island. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2021 11:08:01 GMT 1
You're thinking of Noman.
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Post by dilly on Aug 6, 2021 11:16:47 GMT 1
...In France what I have encountered is nothing at all for the physical well being of the students - everything is after school and payable.
That's a bit of a sweeping statement! |
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Post by ibis on Aug 6, 2021 11:45:28 GMT 1
...In France what I have encountered is nothing at all for the physical well being of the students - everything is after school and payable.
That's a bit of a sweeping statement! Have you had children in the French public school system? |
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Post by nobody on Aug 6, 2021 12:14:01 GMT 1
...In France what I have encountered is nothing at all for the physical well being of the students - everything is after school and payable.
That's a bit of a sweeping statement! It is not actually. My kids play fisbee as a form of physical education. The funny thing is, the teacher is stuck to his mobile while the kids chuck a frisbee about. If kids want to do a sport, it is after school and you pay for it. |
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Post by Nifty on Aug 6, 2021 13:07:49 GMT 1
You're thinking of Noman. Kirtland. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2021 13:19:09 GMT 1
I never really had an interest in tennis. Love, deuce and bonnie lassies flashing their breeks. I don't believe you. |
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Post by FFS on Aug 6, 2021 16:47:55 GMT 1
...In France what I have encountered is nothing at all for the physical well being of the students - everything is after school and payable.
That's a bit of a sweeping statement! It is not actually. My kids play fisbee as a form of physical education. The funny thing is, the teacher is stuck to his mobile while the kids chuck a frisbee about. If kids want to do a sport, it is after school and you pay for it. I don't know about dilly , but I've had three kids go through the school system here in France and each of them had sport during their EPS lessons. |
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