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] Date Posted: 12:36:55 12/08/04 Wed In reply to: Ed Harris (Venezia) 's message, "Nah" on 23:48:36 12/07/04 Tue Being from a country where the temperature never gets low enough to freeze lakes, "hockey" for us always means the one played on grass (or artificial surfaces). It was my favourite sport at school. Australia has something of a tradition of being not bad at hockey. It first became a (men's) Olympic sport at the Melbourne games in 1956, with the women following in 1980, at which Australia didn't compete. The women won gold in 1988, 1996 and 2000, whereas the men only won their first gold this year in Athens, having previously been stuck with three silvers and three bronzes. Great Britain won men's gold in 1988 and bronze in 1984 and women's bronze in 1992. New Zealand picked up men's gold in 1976. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 13:26:02 12/08/04 Wed I had no intention of calling the manliness of field hockey players into question, I assure you! Any game in which one is liable to be clobbered with large sticks, struck in the face with a ball made out of some species of rock moving at 80 feet per second, and which involves quite so much sprinting as that is quite beyond my ability to be competitive in. All I meant was that, in Blighty, boys' schools play rugger and girls' schools play hockey. I don't know what mixed/co-ed schools play, but I suspect that they probably play Association football and car-stealing. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:17:29 12/08/04 Wed I don't think the federation should be just about the rest of us adopting British sports - it should be a two way street. We should all adopt hockey (whether ice or road) and Australian Rules Football. If we all played each other's sports, then we will have a true sporting union. I can't see why others cannot learn to play Canadian sports. All members should play soccer, cricket, rugby, hockey, ARF and basketball (invented by a Canadian). [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:21:21 12/08/04 Wed Ice Hockey is a fantastic sport. I used to have a local team (Ayr Scottish Eagles) that I followed briefly a few years ago. Sadly, the team owner absconded with the funds and they, alas, became bankrupt. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Andrew(Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 17:49:16 12/08/04 Wed even if it was invented by a Canadian, i really dont find basketball that entertaining, i know a lot of other people do though...but to me, it seems not quite as exciting as hockey or rugby or football, and it doesn't seem as fast paced [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 00:17:00 12/09/04 Thu Despite a fondness for rugby that goes back to childhood (having grown up in one of the country's two rugby states), I would have to admit that Australian Football is the most spectacular sport in the world to watch. I would love to see it played seriously at international level. Ice hockey is always going to be a big ask in Australia, but we play pretty much everything else. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 01:07:19 12/09/04 Thu I like to watch Aussie Rules on Sky Sports 3. It looks rather like 19th Century rugby, with nothing barred except for biting and bottles. It also reminds me a lot of Gaelic football - you know, the type which you don't play with sticks. To be honest, though, I think that it would be illegal in the UK under EEC legislation governing wanton acts of violence. Is there an NZ version? Oy veh, we really need a kiwi member! [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Kevin (U.S.) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 01:26:50 12/09/04 Thu Gaelic football is great fun. Hurling is also quite fun to play, once you get the hang of it. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 12:16:25 12/09/04 Thu [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:18:24 12/09/04 Thu Did you know that curling stones are made from granite carved from this small island off the Ayrshire coast, called Ailsa Craig? I like to watch the sun set over it on a good day...   [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:57:05 12/09/04 Thu Do you mean that ALL curling stones are carved out of this island, in the same way that all cricket bats must be carved from English willow? If so, we must pray that curling does not become a popular international sport on the scale of soccer, or yet another one of our beautiful islands will be lost, being totally removed in order to allow people to push rocks across ice with broom-sticks. I understand that a pretty British island has recently been declared uninhabitable, because most of it has been removed to build Egyptian luxury hotels. This is discouraging in a way, but encouraging in another: our commericial genius can not have left us completely if we are able to sell sand to Egypt on such an impressive scale. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:14:30 12/09/04 Thu Nowadays, Ailsa Craig is no longer inhabited, and has become is a bird sanctuary. It is a home to puffins amongst other things. However, between 60-70% of curling stones in existence in the world, are said to have been fashioned from Ailsa granite. The island is volcanic, and is a unique point of geological interest in my local area. However, there is a far more beautiful island off the Ayshire coast called Arran. I like nothing better than to walk along the beach on a summer evening and watch the sun set over it. I have photographed it many times. These are not mine however… Summer  Winter  [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:23:49 12/09/04 Thu Met a bloke from Arran the other day. He said it was beautiful but dead. Reminds me of dear old Venice. Seriously, though, I think we're lucky to live in such beautiful places, but would be misguided to stay there permanently... ...as for walking along the beach and watching sunsets, I imagine that Ayshire is probably the oldest place to do so after La Serenissima... [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:28:40 12/09/04 Thu Arran has been taken over by retired people. It's a nice island, often called Scotland in miniature. However, I prefer to look at it from afar. I go cycling there quite a lot though... [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Curnoack [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:25:54 01/07/05 Fri "I go cycling there quite a lot though..." Is that so that you can escape the lynch mob of angry Scots at home? Lynch David, as opposed to David Lynch... [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 00:30:38 01/08/05 Sat It's to escape parochial nationalism really... [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |