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COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2014 CHAT THREAD
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Just seen that Ashley McKenzie won Gold!
 So happy for him, congratulations Ashley  .http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2704635/Ashley-McKenzie-wins-gold-England-judo-60kg-Commonwealth-Games.html Can't find anything on Gemma or Euan. Maybe they haven't been on yet. Really thrilled for Ashley. |
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Balding overload - seems to be recreating Alan Partridge on BBC1 at the moment...
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Welsh Team Co-Captain Rhys Williams fails drug test
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The English cycling team have been done for dope peddling.
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Not long been in. Was in the gym earlier and looked up at the TV screen and saw Euan Burton's name come up on Sky News but didn't see what it said.
Will go and find out. Hope it's good news. |
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Still none the wiser
We could have done with Rick still being here to keep us up-to-date with the judo. |
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There are some judo finals on right now.
Just been on our local news that Danny Williams ( ) has won Gold for England. So well done to him.I'm hoping to see Euan Burton here. Women on at the moment. This really is not very ladylike  |
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My red button not working on my TV. Having to watch it on here.
Will listen to it while I pick my horses for the Placepot comp. |
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Hey we've just won another Gold in Judo. I didn't know England were so good at this.
Well done Megan Fletcher. |
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Is this commentator going to keep waffling a load of crap over the medal ceremony.
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Yeah! Danny Williams!
Not sure about all those tattoos  |
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His tattoos are quite amazing.
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I not sure Euan Burton is fighting today. I think he's heavier than these.
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Like I know what I'm talking about
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Going to have to mute this. Can't concentrate on the horses.
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table tennis wedgie
http://www.scotsman.com/video/sport/table-tennis-star-gives-himself-wedgie-3697082092001 |
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Two English players fighting together now.
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That was good!
Well done Owen Livesey, he gets the Gold medal. That looked tough. They looked a proper pair of hardnuts! |
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We're doing really good in this.
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Lord Smith of Kelvin could be the next James Bond.
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Just found this on Euan Burton.
.http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/euan-burton-gets-ready-to-fight-for-a-medal-1-3488338 He fights on Saturday night. I'll be able to watch it Wish I knew what time. I'm really hoping he wins the Gold. |
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Wales having a nightmare.
Their no. 1 world ranked flyeight boxer Selby beaten by Scotland's Reece McFadden primarily because of two warnings for being unable to retain his mouth guard. To Selby's credit he gave a great interview to Inverdale immediately afterwards. Boxing shaping up as the highlight for me so far, controversy around non use of headguards with NI favourite Michael Conlan overcoming both his opponent and a cut to his forehead earlier. |
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I'm not English but why is "God Save the Queen" not being played when English competitors win a gold medal?
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Because that's the UKs national anthem.
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queen objected
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Has someone decided to change it since the World Cup then?!?
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McGuigan superb there, no sitting on the fence...
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WR smashed in the heats (swimming)
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Just read the story of 40yo Steve May who is running for England in the marathon. Amazing...
Maybe you're great and you just don't realise. Maybe there's a painter buried deep inside. A pianist? A pilot? A poet? You might be the finest puppeteer the world has seen. And never know it. Steve Way didn't feel great back in 2007. Too many ****, too many kebabs, too much grog. Wasting away while getting fatter, wheezing in bed, annoying his wife, tired of life. The same Steve Way you'll see running the marathon at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, representing England at the age of 40. From worryingly fat and wheezy to prodigiously fast and breezy while approaching middle age. Heard that Muhammad Ali quote about golf? "I'm the best - I just haven't played it yet." "I didn't really take any interest in sport at school," Way, from Poole in Dorset, told BBC Sport. "I was pretty good at maths and physics, a bit of a geek. But I also enjoyed myself quite a lot in my twenties. "There was quite a lot of drinking, quite a lot of smoking and quite a lot of late-night kebabs after nights out with the boys in Bournemouth. "The big change came when I was 33, in September 2007. I was at my heaviest, about 16-and-a-half stone, and I was smoking about 20 cigarettes a day. I'd have sleepless nights because of the coughing. It wasn't pleasant. "I'd be lying if I said I had an epiphany but I didn't like the person I saw in the mirror in the morning and I do remember the emotion I felt, the feeling that 'right, I've really got to do something, make some changes'. "I wasn't clinically depressed but I was just moseying from one day to the next. I had no goals in life. There was nothing going on to get me excited. "I needed to find something I could focus all my attention on that was going to help me lose weight and keep me off the cigarettes. In order to bury your vices you need to find an equal and opposite addiction. You need to find a passion." It would be disingenuous to claim that Way had no inkling of his buried talent before that fateful day. In 2006, he entered the London Marathon, trained for three weeks and finished it in a little over three hours, not a bad time for a decent club runner. After which, Way ditched the running shoes and went back to moseying for 18 months. But after deciding to get passionate and give up his vices for good, Way got seriously fast in a miraculously short space of time: seven months after emerging from his chrysalis and realising what beautiful wings he had, he clocked 2:35.26 in London and finished 100th. His old friends down The George didn't really know what to think, except to say "you've changed". Changing can be a cardinal sin among a tight-knit group of mates. "Until about a year into it they'd say to me, 'so, you're still doing this running thing?'" says Way. "They found it difficult to comprehend and embrace, especially because I was socialising less and less. But as time went on they began to see how happy it made me. Now they love that they knew the old me." If you thought this story sounded fantastical so far, listen to this: Way somehow manages to combine running 130 miles a week with a 9-5 job in a bank. Which begs the question: what do you do on your lunch breaks? "Running is a choice, not my job," says Way. "At the start of this journey I had a well-paid IT career but the hours didn't fit in with my training. So I changed jobs, took a considerable pay cut and made sacrifices. "I have to be a little bit selfish - the training takes up a lot of my time. When I got married I wasn't the person I am now, but my wife Sarah is so supportive. She sees how happy it makes me and the passion it's brought us as a couple." Way is often asked what might have been had he taken up running earlier. But why worry about what might have been when the present is so fulfilling? "I don't regret going out and enjoying myself," says Way, who recently went on a 40th birthday bash in Barcelona, combining long training runs when his mates were in bed with the odd alcoholic beverage. "I now have the best of both worlds. I still have an enjoyable social life, although it no longer involves going out clubbing on Friday and Saturday nights, but I also have passion and excitement in my life." This story gets still more fantastical. Way qualified for the Commonwealth Games by virtue of being the third Englishman to finish this year's London Marathon. Ahead of him were two-time Olympic and three-time world champion Mo Farah, who pulled out of the Glasgow Games because of illness, and Chris Thompson, who will be running the 10,000m. But that's not the most amazing part. Neither is the fact that Way was 15th across the line in a time of 2:16.27, ahead of British Olympian Scott Overall. Or the fact that Way spent the night before the race in a camper van in his cousin's driveway in Kent. The most amazing part is the fact he hadn't actually trained for the race and planned to take it easy with some club-mates. "The prospect of representing my country in Glasgow was not on my radar," says Way. "I was using London as a training run for the UK 100km Championships in May. But about a week and a half before London I realised I'd got myself into what I thought was marathon personal-best shape. I'm not sure how I'd done it, but I decided to race instead. "On the day I felt absolutely awesome, so I went off with an official 2:15 pacemaker and had a great run. As I was coming down The Mall, I had it all to myself. I was looking down towards the finishing line, there were huge crowds on either side and the tracking camera started following me. "At that moment I knew I'd be on the telly and my mum would be watching. It was a spectacular moment and made all those months of training worthwhile." Two weeks later, Way won that 100km race by 46 minutes. While Way's rise has been filmic so far, he is realistic about his chances in Glasgow. Four Kenyans finished well ahead of him in London. The winner, world record holder Wilson Kipsang, beat him by 12 minutes. But for a man who only took up running to lose weight and kick cigarettes, simply being on the same start line as Kipsang is almost dream-like. "For a good two weeks after I got selected for Glasgow it was all a bit surreal," says Way. "Going from a couch potato to representing my country at a Commonwealth Games was hard to grasp." It turned out Way was great but just didn't realise. At least he found out before it was too late. Maybe it's time to have a rummage around inside - who knows what you might find? |
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Clydebank - Steve is a mate of mine. A really top guy who deserves all the attention that's been coming his way lately. Actually in the running community he's pretty well known already. I'll be going for a few drinks with him next week when I head up to Glasgow.
His real talent though lies in the ultra distances. He won the UK 100k title two weeks after the London marathon in a British record of 6h19. That's six minute miling for 62 miles! He'll go into the world champs this autumn as favourite. He might break the British record for over 40's tomorrow, currently held by former WR holder Ron Hill. |
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thanks for posting that Clydebank - his level of talent must be truly mind boggling.
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Woohoo! Zoe Smith won the Gold
 Gemma Gibbons won the silver, that's great but she'll probably disappointed with that. I don't know I didn't watch it. Congrats to both of them. Waiting for Euan Burton. Hope I haven't missed him. |
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Will read your post later, CLYDEBANK.
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Euan Burton about to fight for the Gold medal.
Come on Euan! |
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Crowd going mad for their boy.
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Eaun Burton has won the Gold! I'm in tears.
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Fran Halsall
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Ladies medal ceremony is all very emotional.
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not seen The Blade Runner yet.
Half expecting him to rock up in one of the shooting events. |