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Listed below are comments made by namewhichnoonehas between Sunday, 17th August 2008 and Sunday, 23rd November 2008.

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Ask Bearders #182 5:58pm on 23 Nov 2008 Regarding the post about Adam Gilchrist I was led to believe that Rodney Marsh used to put a steak in each of his gloves to counter the pace of Jeff Thompson. Any truth in this?

Excellent Column Thanks.
London needs to cash in on 2012 Games 6:40pm on 18 Aug 2008 London does need to worry you are right.

London needs to worry about it's attitude to overseas visitors , it's lack of public hygiene , atrocious transport system (terminal 5 is so bad I am forsaking my last flight leg and paying for a train rather than submit myself to it again) and it's avaricious vendors. Maybe then we can worry about how many people recognise Big Ben. Yes I am from the North and no I am not saying things are any better here. England is not a place that knows how to welcome visitors , go to Sydney , Auckland , Stockholm , Singapore or many other tourist friendly places and learn from them. That will help this country more than a select committee I'm sorry to say.
Rowers rule but they're still not perfect 7:34pm on 17 Aug 2008 dazzlingBestinshow .... Spot on!

Strive for Gold , smile for silver , if you didn't win you were beaten by someone better.
Let the great G.O.A.T debate commence! 7:08pm on 17 Aug 2008 The G.O.A.T? I tend to agree with the school of thought that comparison between sports is just too difficult to make this a valid prospect.

While sitting open mouthed at the lightning Bolt winning the 60 metres and looking like he was jogging down the shop for a paper for the last 40 , once again fairly or unfairly it raises the spectre of waiting for the revelation in the tabloids in a few days. Such a shame but athletics will need to go a way to lose that taint. No doubt there is virtue in the comments that have been posted ... yes a spectacle like the 100 will always draw the attention and the spotlight will always overshadow lesser known but still as deserving sports. As for swimming , definitely the scope to win multiple medals is more present because of the nature of the event , Phelps has become the greatest olympic swimmer of all time due to winning more golds than any other , the question is , does winning more medals entitle him to the G.O.A.T crown? Probably not in my view , too many people will have a view (and too many views will be nationality oriented) for this to happen.

The main question I have after these games is the professional vs amateur thing.... Obviously the IOC has reasons for the seemimgly indiscriminate scattering of pros , amateurs , under 23 pros , over 17 pros , and possibly left and right handed pros for all I know that are allowed to compete in each discipline , I wish they would share that reasoning cos I'm stumped.

Time for a smoking a cigarette whilst slurping coffee and simultaneously scratching the belly for an overweight bald man event to be imncluded I think (Quick guys at 47 I'm running out of olympics , I'm happy to be amateur)

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