We want to share an important update with our Betfair Community users.
Over the coming months, the Betfair Community platform will be winding down. The final active day for the platform will be December 21st. From December 22nd, users will no longer be able to access the platform.
Your discussions, insights, engagement, and, most importantly, feedback have helped shape the platform and guided innovation. Your feedback continues to be important to us, and we will continue to listen via our dedicated feedback channels, as well as through product testing and innovations.
To share your feedback and experience, visit: https://support.betfair.com/app/home
Chit Chat
There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
Rog,
Do you have a couple of minutes to enjoy a piece of trivia about an athlete I'm sure you'll remember from Olympic Games and the like from many years ago?
Do you have a couple of minutes to enjoy a piece of trivia about an athlete I'm sure you'll remember from Olympic Games and the like from many years ago?
sort by:
Show
per page
Replies: 4
|
By:
Me?
Even if not, I'm always up for a bit of athletic trivia. Not a racy story about Lindsey Macdonald is it? |
|
By:
Sadly no !
I recall we've strolled down Memory Lane together a few times in the past re: obscure past Olympic/Athletics performers, and so I'm sure you'll remember the name Papageorgopoulos from the 70s. He was a very good Greek 100m runner and Coleman's thankless task was to try and fit in calling his name umpteen times in such a short race. A task made more difficult as he was notoriously fast from the blocks. Anyway, I have belatedly learned that the Great Man once discovered his very own solution to the Greek Economy Crisis. Rgeards etc . http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/athletics/former-greek-sprinter-vassilis-papageorgopoulos-jailed-for-stealing-12m-8518030.html |
|
By:
12 million sovs!
When it comes to bad boy Greek sprinters it puts Kenteris little, um, peccadillo, before the 2004 Olympics into perspective doesn't it? |
|
By:
Indeed, the motorcycle boy was a mere lightweight.
It gets better. Firstly, the authorities saw sense and evidently reduced his sentence. . http://www.ekathimerini.com/161540/article/ekathimerini/news/ex-mayors-life-term-for-graft-is-shortened Now he's out on compassionate grounds. . http://www.pappaspost.com/former-mayor-of-thessaloniki-free-from-jail-papageorgopoulos-convicted-of-stealing-e17-million-free-on-compassionate-grounds/ Hooray for Greek Justice, what ho? Best that money can buy? |