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AussieGoddess said:yeah I didnt think about the event being the next day.
Will definitely not be him then ... Sally Pearson might be a good call.
As to the event - what are the chances of Matt White learning from the Worlds and selecting Renshaw????????
SURELY it would have to be something along the lines of
Goss
Renshaw
Evans
Bobridge
Porte
Gives them options for the TT ... workhorses for the RR and a sprinter and leadout
auscyclefan94 said:Sally Pearson won a Hurdles World Championship. Yes that is very good but Cadel Evans won the Tour de France and he was stuck yesterday having to present a trophy with her. Disgraceful! Don't they know it it the Cadel Show here in melbourne?!
auscyclefan94 said:Sally Pearson won a Hurdles World Championship. Yes that is very good but Cadel Evans won the Tour de France and he was stuck yesterday having to present a trophy with her. Disgraceful! Don't they know it it the Cadel Show here in melbourne?!
The Hitch said:Like Cadel, Sally Pearson is a world champion. She has risen to the absolute top of her discipline, especially since olympics are only 4 years.
Hurdles are tricky and it is a major event and there are thousands out the who wish they could do it like Pearson.
I think Cadels achievement is more impressive, but Pearson deserves to be up there with him.
I was being facetious.Libertine Seguros said:Come off it, ACF! Don't you realise this could be Pearson's only chance to be recognised alongside a great like Evans? It only really goes to show what a great guy Evans is that he's willing to share the limelight that is rightfully his, and you know that the chance to just be mentioned in the same breath as Cadel Evans is an accolade that anybody would never forget. Pearson will no doubt feel that all the sacrifices she has made for her sporting career are worth it, the second she walked out to present an award with Cadel Evans!
The Hitch said:Like Cadel, Sally Pearson is a world champion. She has risen to the absolute top of her discipline, especially since olympics are only 4 years.
Hurdles are tricky and it is a major event and there are thousands out the who wish they could do it like Pearson.
I think Cadels achievement is more impressive, but Pearson deserves to be up there with him.
gregrowlerson said:Hitch is spot on. Although Sally's event is only one part of track and field, she did dominate virtually the entire season, losing only her last race, which I think must have been the Grand Prix Final. In this way she was/is more dominant than Cadel. Think about how many non African's (or African descendants or Jamaicans!) win gold medals on the track......they are few and far between.
auscyclefan94 said:I was being facetious.
WC in Hurdles or WC in Road Cycling. Both are amazing acheivements but I still would say Road Race WC in most instances is harder to win. Saying her acheivements are more dominant than Cadel is absurd. Based on winning strike rate, Sally would also be a more dominant athlete than Phillippe Gilbert.
karlboss said:Exactly what an athlete. Go Sally!!!
gregrowlerson said:Hitch is spot on. Although Sally's event is only one part of track and field, she did dominate virtually the entire season, losing only her last race, which I think must have been the Grand Prix Final. In this way she was/is more dominant than Cadel. Think about how many non African's (or African descendants or Jamaicans!) win gold medals on the track......they are few and far between.
Field maybe. Track not so much. It is pretty rare actually. Especially the shorter distances.El Pistolero said:Many white people win medals on the track by the way, some disciplines are totally dominated by white people.
El Pistolero said:It was the Memorial Ivo Van Damme in Brussels. Which is the final track event of the Diamond League(you earn double points there). Many white people win medals on the track by the way, some disciplines are totally dominated by white people.
The Hitch said:What event? 800 and 400 probably come closest and both were won by people of Afro Caribbean descent in the last olympics.
Actually every track gold went to a person of Afro Caribbean descent last olympics, so I don't see how white people dominate any of them.
greenedge said:Maybe Goss, Evans, O'Grady and Pearson can all carry it together???
auscyclefan94 said:5 people? I don't think so.