[Other Sport] Basketball v Skeleton Bobsleigh

[hart's shirt]

We can't win 2 medals in the same event in basketball.

Vote skeleton.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Amazing feat by the British women

 

[Triggaaar]

Amazing feat by the British women

Lizzy just won Laura the Bronze

 

[LamieRobertson]

Lizzy just won Laura the Bronze

Erm...hence my post

Just watching reruns on the BBC website... fantastic moments

 

[Triggaaar]

We don't win much at the Winter Olympics, what with us having no snow an' all. Now we get 3 medals in the skeleton.

This thread is gold!

 

[Triggaaar]

Erm...hence my post

No, my post is completely different. Note that I didn't say "Lizzy just won, Laura the Bronze"

 

[WATFORD zero]

It's all opinions, did not mean to come over all arsey with Easy 10, I don't get figure skating as a sport, it's dancing, but look at how well we have done at it over the years, but for me it is not sport.
I think where Easy fell down on his dislike of Basketball is that if he heared sqeaky trainers on a polished floor then he has only watched a game in a sports centre or school gym, you can't hear trainers over the noise of crowd and the loud music during play.
Also if it was piss easy to score every game would be 300-300, it is extremely skilful to shoot 3 points consistently.
Close games within 2 or 3 points right up to the end are exciting especially last second baskets to win.

I'm out

 

[LamieRobertson]

No, my post is completely different. Note that I didn't say "Lizzy just won, Laura the Bronze"

You are far too clever for me ...sigh

 

[Triggaaar]

You are far too clever for me ...sigh

Sorry I wasn't trying to be smart, I was just saying that Lizzy's incredible final run was so good that it destroyed the leader Janine Flock, which lead to Flock messing up and finishing 2 hundredths behind Laura. I just tried to say it in fewer words.

 

[Bwian]

What's with this 'Skeleton' shit? Used to be toboggan in my day. I remember John Noakes and Blue Peter.

The Skeleton was originally called The Skeleton Bobsleigh because it was the skeleton chassis of a bobsleigh. Nothing to do with toboggans. Name shortened to Skeleton Bob then to Skeleton. Courtesy of some former Skeleton Gold Medal winner.

Add me to the basketball is shite camp.

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[Bwian]

I'm out

Exactly this.

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[Sussex Nomad]

The Skeleton was originally called The Skeleton Bobsleigh because it was the skeleton chassis of a bobsleigh. Nothing to do with toboggans. Name shortened to Skeleton Bob then to Skeleton. Courtesy of some former Skeleton Gold Medal winner.

Add me to the basketball is shite camp.

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So, do we still have toboggan? I don't watch winter Olympics I think they suck.

 

[Bwian]

So, do we still have toboggan? I don't watch winter Olympics I think they suck.

No idea about toboggans. Not THAT interested to be honest but watching people slide on next to nothing on runners at 80mph is way more interesting than basketball for me.

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[super-seagulls]

Basketball really is crap. I watched the skeleton the other night, it wasn’t very good. But if I had to fund one of these two sports, it would not be basketball.
If the choices in your poll were basketball or baseball. It would be very tricky indeed. Add American catchball to that list and you have 3 of the dullest sports ever.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

No idea about toboggans. Not THAT interested to be honest but watching people slide on next to nothing on runners at 80mph is way more interesting than basketball for me.

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I do, so agree, with that. Basketball players are usually a freak of nature.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Basketball is a three pass score, what Americans need for their short span of thinking.

 

[hart's shirt]

 

[PoG]

None.

I would rather chew my own arm off at the shoulder.

I gathered.

 

[PoG]

I think where Easy fell down on his dislike of Basketball...

He fell down because he has no valid reason being that he's not watch a game before. Like me for example, I've never watched cricket. I'm sure I would like it if I did but it's never interested me. I wouldn't go on a rant saying how shite it was based on that.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Basketball is a sport we will never do well in, so what’s the point in wasting money?