indeed, he was fairly useless, but not his fault, he was offered the place and took it.

Quite. I actually felt sorry for him TBH - a victim of internal politics being placed above performances.

Put them both up against each other in competition, just to see who the better choice was.

Indeed, Aaron Cook saw that the "official" training etc. wasn't working for him and went and did his own thing, the governing body didn't like that, so had a dummy spit and put an inferior athelete forward.

And where are all these dozens of medals that the Yorkshiremen seem to think they've won?

I repeat.


'Bless'.

Who mentioned "dozens" ???

[urlhttp://www.metro.co.uk/olympics/908092-yorkshire-up-to-12th-in-olympic-medal-table-after-nicola-adams-victory[/url

Accurate to last night. HTH




LOL

Lutalo Muhammad - Olympic Bronze medallist.

Is the relay to British Athletics what penaly shoot-outs are to English football??....

Only if you ignore where most of them were actually born.

The OS map is based on where the athletes were born (if born in mainland Britain) or are currently based (if born elsewhere). The publicity material produced by Welcome to Yorkshire is not. Hardly surprising that a tourist agency would want to favourably distort the true picture, but a little surprising that so many are so easily taken in.

Thats a little flexible in its own definition though isn't it ?

"Where they were born" is one thing and thats fine, but then throw in "or where currently based" just destroys the survey's credibility, if we stuck rigidly to those definitions then we can go back through history and claim a huge percentage of medals for Yorkshire on the basis that until recently there were only two physical education colleges of excellence in the country, one in Leeds, one in Loughborough and most of our semi-pro athletes of that age trained at one or the other.



Look closer at that map and you'll see winners who were born in Germany and Belgium, clearly they aren't there on the basis of where they were born



Of course its frippery, no one this side of the line ever suggested otherwise (is Middlesborough in Yorkshire, well Yorkshire Cricket Club play there so thats good enough), what is amusing us all is the hissy fits that some take when they see us celebrating our athletes success.

Its just LOL all the way for us

Nope. The map uses place of birth as long as it was within the region covered by the map, otherwise it uses current [iresidence[/i. No loss of 'credibility' there - not least because the whole thing is a technology demonstrator. It's certainly more credible than the alternative used by WtY.

And you could only carry out the excercise you propose for athletes who weren't born on mainland Britain, and who also actually lived local to one of those two colleges.

As for the 'we were never serious about it anyway' - classic messageboard response of folk who've been caught out.

Come on, give the Yorkshire folk some slack - Considering their performances in mainstream sport normally borders on dismal (hello Premier League football...

), then they surely deserve to try and get some credit from all these barmy minority sports.

Let's just hope they don't let sheep worrying into the Olympics anytime soon because we'll never shut them up....

LOL 'till I barf.

Sorry I thought we were talking about sport, are you now stretching the discussion to include amateur dramatics ?

.....Give it 6 months mate, then all this Olympics stuff will be a distant memory, and then we can come back and discuss Yorkshire's sporting prowess....

These days we generally just have to wait until the first saturday in October...

Mo Farah - Double Olympic Gold Medalist - you are THE MAN!

GOLD for Luke and Hull.

The stamp:



I'd buy one but I spent all my money on buying these:



So I can send letters to Nick Griffin, Aidan Burley and the EDL

And the Daily Mail, they must choke every time the post arrives from now on.

This story from the start of the Olympics is in the news again: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ncing.html Once again, Yorkshire folk disgrace the nation. Two appalling incidents at the friendly Olympics allegedly down to the county.

This story from the start of the Olympics is in the news again: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ncing.html Once again, Yorkshire folk disgrace the nation. Two appalling incidents at the friendly Olympics allegedly down to the county.

Hey well done.

Thats two idiotic posts you've made this week.

Just the two? Cheers!

There's time yet...