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elise christie...wont be winning any oscars
elise christie...wont be winning any oscars
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Definitely the next candidate for a kitkat advert
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£4.8m of public funding spent on short track speedskating for this Olympics
No medals will surely mean a loss of funding. So £4.8m buys you clueless trackcraft and rank bad decision making what a waste of money https://www.statista.com/statistics/519322/public-funding-for-olympic-short-track-speed-skating-in-the-uk/ |
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how much has gone on eyelashes?
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At least a million of that must have gone on acting classes.
Tbf it did make for good comedy |
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Maybe a career as a stunt woman beckons
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£500 hospital food
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Global news according to Balding. Future of Olympics must be in doubt.
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I don't get it, why is she not in the womens relays?
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Yet another inquest to Elsie's departure. Should cut off diplomatic ties with Seoul imo.
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if she stopped wearing false eyelashes she might see where she's going.
on another note surely funding has to be withdrawn. was article on bbc breakfast yesterday about basketball and its popularity ( team sport only second to football) but it gets no funding, liz nichol ( head of funding ) said didnt get any as there was no medal possibilities !!! talk about self fulfilling prophecy. why not fund sorts for the greater good rather than meda chances ! i take it she is heaviy bonused on medals. |
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balding, during a round-up earlier, announced some brit finished an "excellent seventh"
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how many in the race? Seven?
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The whole thing has just escalated into coverage of absolute ridiculousness. joke funding, complete failure and people like balding taking it to a new level, just been looking at the bbc sport website, one comment on there by helen lewis
"anyone else taking what's happened to Elise Christie really personally? hold your head up high, we are all so proud of you" FFS, i wonder if this anus knew who Christie actually was before this farce started, god if **** like this get's to her, i'd like to see her reaction to a family crisis. |
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Watched the Handball at the London Olympics, actually a great game we had a couple of decent players who played in overseas league, this was one sport crying out for funding after those games, I'm sure there would have been a decent take up of people playing it but funding was never going to happen & I doubt its hardly played here at all, millions spent in pursuit of a few medals in obscure sports I'm sure you could answer its all worth it I'm not so sure.
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but its not worth is it pumphol ? only funding minority sports and lets be honest seemingly privileged sports. sailing doesn't come cheap and how many comp kids get the chance to do it ? rowing too, just elitist.cycling expensine. what happens when ther countries invest more than us in cycling ? only ever knew one rowing person and that was when i was at uni, he was called hugo and into fox-hunting too, the c unt.
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lol
Handball could have been a sport where anyone could have played even in schools but they never gave it a chance why cos medal chance were virtually nil while other more elitist sports are imo over funded but that's the way of the world sadly. |
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so vacuous by powers that be though to dismiss a sport as it has no medal potential, what about the greater good ? handball, basketball not exactly expensive to play and therefore low on budget in comparison to elitist sports.
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Toboganning got £5m funding, at least they won a couple of medals.
However £5m would build approx 30 all-weather multisports pitches with floodlights |
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exactly big h, and more kids participating in sport , govt and drs always complaining about fat kids, well here's a chance to do something about it. bollox to medals , lets have a healthier nation.
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Some absolute classics on this thread
 dustybin 20 Feb 18 10:27 Stupid game anyway Do the poor get entitled to ask for their lottery bets back? My personal favourite!Mikael D'Haguenet 20 Feb 18 11:30 Global news according to Balding. Future of Olympics must be in doubt. morpteh mackem 20 Feb 18 13:05 if she stopped wearing false eyelashes she might see where she's going. |
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totally agree MM
also consider the fact that Alexis Sanchez weekly wage could build 3 multisports pitches all this at a time when grass roots football is really struggling |
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Basketball is the 3rd most played team sport in UK but is struggling for funding because it won't win elite medals. It's backwards. Funding isn't set up to get ordinary people participating regularly. It's thrown at madness like these idiots on ice, that only a handful of people give a sh1t about, just for propaganda purposes.
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Spot on john.
Christie says she'll be back in 4 years in Beijing. Who's gonna pay for that!? |
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more likely to be on 'im a celebrity ' .
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more likely to be on 'im a celebrity ' .
Or 'Dancing on Ice'! God help her if they bring 'The Jump' back  |
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Epic fail
I bet she'd still get more votes than Hamilton in SPOTY, tho |
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shed probably fall off the stage
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shed probably fall off the stage
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hugo the c
remb andy the c he prob lot fund fed on DOND |
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We'll never forget 'Andy The C'.
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why keep plugging the darts thread everywhere you go
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one time a fuggin year it matters.for 2 weeks.get over it.
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 So, who fancies a go?  |
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a bit of humility wouldnt have gone amiss;crocodile tears, fake injuries and fake eyelashes betraying her narcissism didnt help.
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Fake accent.
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She's on the floor so often her nickname is Lowtush Elise
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back with a bang crisp
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Winter Olympics. Must be the biggest' turn off ' ever !
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I shouldnt imagine the number of people who want to become speed skaters to be particularly large, and so as a result the extent at which she 'excels' when not failing isnt really a significant factor in how well she does in the greater concept and struggles in life.
Shes existed within an artificial bubble of soviet style funding I should imagine. Now she has failed, trice. The question is to what extent do we all care enough to give her that lifestyle when the rest of us have to struggle off our own merit. |
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still, that ass, tho
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