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Listed below are comments made by MKChris between Thursday, 14th August 2008 and Friday, 2nd January 2009.

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You can take over Radio 1. Now! 5:03pm on 02 Jan 2009 Anything by The Rifles (particularly She's Got Standards or The Great Escape) or Ugly Kid Joe - Cat's in the Cradle please!
Golf and the Olympics, not as daft as it seems 09:51am on 20 Aug 2008 The argument that 'tennis is in, and so should golf be' doesn't wash. I don't believe tennis should be an Olympic sport anyway.

I would far, far rather see squash in.
Final humiliation in the park 1:38pm on 18 Aug 2008 I'm surprised he didn't know Des - he may not have been impressed at the 11 time English Champion statistic, but he was also World Number 7.

Also.. your backhand looks all wrong, Tom!
The demons that drive Romero 12:30pm on 18 Aug 2008 Indeed an incredible woman.

Talking of switching sports, two British people have successfully switched from table tennis to tennis (which is not as easy as some may think) in the past... Fred Perry, who most know as our last Wimbledon champion, was actually World Table Tennis champion before that; and Ann Haydon-Jones, though she was never a World Table Tennis champion, was World Number One prior to playing tennis.
Capturing the youth market 4:57pm on 14 Aug 2008 To answer 'robbyking', I should like to point out (as 'markb41' correctly mentioned) I have never seen a table tennis table in a pub and actually top table tennis players are extremely fit athletes.. Ma Lin, one of the very top players probably has a similar work out regime to Rafa Nadal.

The trouble with this type of thinking is that people tend to assume, having played on the outdoor table on holiday and beaten all their mates, that table tennis is easy and not much of a workout, but they couldn't be more wrong. It's the fastest ball sport from contact to contact and you need lightning reflexes to play at a decent level.

I would also mention that, though I don't know much about it, I think synchronised diving is one of the best spectacles to watch at the Olympics and I'm sure takes an incredible degree of athleticism and skill to master.

I do agree that tennis shouldn't be on the agenda (certainly not professional tennis), and the same goes for football and basketball.

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