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Was just thinking that some of these ryder cup golfers will spend 9 hours competing today, what sportsmen spend more than that? Then I got to thinking about career time spans...
Sportsmen with a decent length career in .....
Football. 600 games - 900 hours .....37 days
sprinter. 120 races including relays split equally between 100m and 200m.....30 minutes
Cricketer. 120tests, 150 first class, 400one dayers, 200 T20...9000 hours....1 year
Ay sportsmen less than 30 minutes or more than 1 year?
Sportsmen with a decent length career in .....
Football. 600 games - 900 hours .....37 days
sprinter. 120 races including relays split equally between 100m and 200m.....30 minutes
Cricketer. 120tests, 150 first class, 400one dayers, 200 T20...9000 hours....1 year
Ay sportsmen less than 30 minutes or more than 1 year?
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Sailing - some races (round the world Vendee Globe type races) last six months
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I have spent all my cricketing years on the infield because I throw like a f*cking girl. More action than outfielders, but even so you spend most of your day doing b*gger all.
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Sailing an interesting one, I mean surely you are sleeping and stuff, can that count as competing?
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It doesn't really matter.
It's not like they just show up and do it. The marathon runners are no more or less dedicated than the 100m runners. |
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Snooker players must be putting in some hours; especially recently with the extra tournaments
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MP; Seven general elections: Polls open fourteen hours: Total = Four days, two hours
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OP - Hold on a minute. How can you differentiate between competing and standing still, or even sitting in the pavilion with your pads on waiting to bat next?
Professional golfers played for 9 hrs today??? Doing what exactly? Not only do they take an age over each shot, they even opt out of riding in a buggy. The time should be calculated by each stroke of the ball. Therefore, a golfer completing a round of golf is under 10 minutes for 18 holes. Ronnie O'sullivan completes a frame of snooker in 5 mins, whereas Peter Ebdon takes over 1 hr to play (a shot)  frame.It's the same for a dart player (any excuse to squeeze darts on CC). Take a fast player like Adrian Lewis, or a slow player like Justin Pipe. Both throw the same amount of darts yet 1 player takes much longer over a period of time to throw all 3. A game of football lasts 90 minutes, plus any added time, yet the ball is only in play for a fraction of the time. I'd hazard a guess that more time is spent training/practicing than playing these actual sporting events. Some darts players are known to practice between 5-8hrs per day (that's a lot of walking for non fit people) It's also bollocks! They're not throwing darts continuously for that amount of time. Smith & Jones - Not The 9 o'clock News - Darts sketch is much closer to the truth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgap_CzceBM |
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Yesterdays mens World road cycling champs was six and a half hours of racing. The major tours are 4-5 hours a day for 3 weeks.
This is continual racing effort. |
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Divers. A couple of seconds of falling. 10 minutes in a career is probably an overestimate. I mean Tom Daley types btw not Ashley Young etc
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In a professional career that lasted 20 years and a few weeks, Muhammad Ali spent less than 2 days fighting in the ring (548 rounds)
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