Professional Sports Figures

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It always freaked me out how close crowds get to the peloton at the Tour De France or any tours
So this didn’t surprise me in one sense but did shock me at the stupidity of the spectator it could have finished the tour before it really started.
Tour de France organisers aim to sue spectator who caused mass stage 1 crash

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Ireland only gone and beat the All Blacks again by 9 point this time. A friendly test match, the third time now, just a pity we can’t pull off stuff like this in the World Cups! We were points down at half time.

Brilliant match in front of a full capacity home stadium.

Haka v Irish fans!




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President Biden is a fan (and a cousin to a player)

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Aug 22, 2020 19:03:32 GMT -4 @fitz said:

Oct 29, 2017 21:37:40 GMT -4 @fitz said:

Katie Taylor, World Champion She's been this little island boxing golden girl for sometime now and I worried about her going pro but no need for worry I never doubted Katie just the pro world. Huge admiration and Congrats to Our Girl.

Few years later from this post Kate Taylor retains world belts after another epic against Delfine Persoon and remains undefeated in 16 pro fights
And to think I was worried about her future in pro boxing!
Well done Our Girl.

And the bloody stupid Sky Sports talking heads call her Team GB Olympian before the fight eh no no nope Team Ireland

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I didn’t see my above post sorry I know it’s a year but I don’t mean to turn this in to Katie Taylor thread or a Rugby thread either( it’s back tho local stuff so I’ll be quiet on that front for a while yet)

Quoting myself again as our Girl Katie has done it again.another huge win and history made with it.
Katie’s fight with Amanda Serrano was the first times Womens Boxing headlined in Madison Square Garden.

Katie is an absolute legend and likely Ireland’s greatest athlete male or female ( she also played on ladies national soccer team before committing to boxing) and completed only against boys as girls weren’t allowed to fight at first here, she changed that.
Her record
As an amateur
-5 consecutive gold medals at the World Champs
- 6 European gold medals
- Olympic gold at London 2012

As a pro
- Undisputed lightweight world champion
- Two-weight world champion

The undisputed and undefeated Queen of the Ring!

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If a male basketball player were being detained in Russia, I suspect it would be big news. Since it's a woman, (Brittney Griner of the Phoenix Mercury), not so much.

Fun fact, further down in the article: The minimum salary in the NBA is about $700K more than the maximum salary in the WNBA. That's why WNBA players play in international leagues in the off-season--to boost their pay.

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Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to the UK as a child

Sir Mo's PE teacher, Alan Watkinson, noticed a transformation in the young boy when he hit the athletics track.
"The only language he seemed to understand was the language of PE and sport," he says.

Sir Mo says sport was a lifeline for him as "the only thing I could do to get away from this [living situation] was to get out and run".

He eventually confided in Mr Watkinson about his true identity, his background, and the family he was being forced to work for.

The PE teacher contacted social services and helped Sir Mo to be fostered by another Somali family.

That teacher is a hero. I can’t imagine a child confiding in me that he had been kidnapped and was being held in servitude.

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Nov 13, 2021 13:21:20 GMT -4 @fitz said:

Ireland only gone and beat the All Blacks again by 9 point this time. A friendly test match, the third time now, just a pity we can’t pull off stuff like this in the World Cups! We were points down at half time.

Brilliant match in front of a full capacity home stadium.

Haka v Irish fans!




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President Biden is a fan (and a cousin to a player)

Well Ireland rugby have only gone and done it again, twice this time in the AllBlacks back yard. A test tour to New Zealand three matches played 2 matches won!
We might eventually beat them in a World Cup, there’s one in France next year and New Zealand are already looking forward to a potential rematch!

I’m not sure but I think the last time a touring team beat The All Blacks at home was France in the 1990s