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Wanderers Ways. Neil Thompson 1961-2021

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Guest bwfcdan
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Tom Daly, he gets a lot of coverage, but has he ever actually won a tournament???

 

Yep.

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yes he has only has the other 2/3 of the world to take on or the other three that beat him

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Before all this 'Team GB' bollocks, weren't we known as Great Britain & Northern Ireland?

 

As I said before, the name of the team in the Olympics is, and has always been, Great Britain.

Northern Ireland wasn't in existence in 1896. Although many of the early medallists for Great Britain were Irish - Pat & Con Leahy, Peter O'Connor, Tim Ahearne, in the high, long and triple jumps, for examole.

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As I said before, the name of the team in the Olympics is, and has always been, Great Britain.

Northern Ireland wasn't in existence in 1896. Although many of the early medallists for Great Britain were Irish - Pat & Con Leahy, Peter O'Connor, Tim Ahearne, in the high, long and triple jumps, for examole.

before the Irish free state?

Guest bwfcdan
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Still going on this volleyball. Two sets all.

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He won two gold medals for England in the last Commonwealth games at 16.

so no chinese , japs or americans

 

He won the World Championships in 2009 at 15 - they were all there.

Since then the press attention has done him no good.

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Im not even that arsed if we do get that many Golds, would be nice like, but im just enjoying the different sports.

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I still cant get over how exciting handball was, and they put to shame the diving tarts we watch on a weeking, kicking that bag of wind aroud.

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whos our bet bet for GOLD ?

 

do we have any ?

Two lasses in the rowing yesterday broke the olympic record and smashed the rest of the field.Final today or tomorrow, best bet by far. They have not been beaten by anyone in 20 months of rowing together.

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Tom Daly, he gets a lot of coverage, but has he ever actually won a tournament???

 

2 x Commonwealth games Golds (2010)

2 x European Championship Golds (2008 & 2012)

1 x World Championship Gold (2009)

 

So he's not bad to be fair to him, and he has been world champion once.

 

It's sadly another case of building somebody up and then knocking them down again

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I think the overall question Tom Daley overated?

 

it depends who is doing the "rating" I suppose, he's certainly in aidiotst the top divers in the world, he's certainly not shit.

 

Maybe the British media are at fault for building him up as a medal certainty. He was never going to win gold, the Chinese were massive favourites for it.

 

He's finished 4th in the doubles and still has the individuals to go, so still has a chance of a medal

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