The Miscellaneous Sports Thread

[Liep]

Nordenkampen is on. A 4 way battle between Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark/Iceland in athletics. There's beautiful blond fit nordic girls in skin tight outfits everywhere. It's good television.

[Savonarola]

Quinnipiac wins it all in men's college hockey; so naturally:

Students Get Rowdy at Quinnipiac After Hockey Win, 2 Arrested

Oh you wacky... uhm... pejorative and/or slang term for people from Connecticut. 

[Admiral Yi]

Very entertaining Masters right now.  Speith was cruising to victory then the wheels fell off.  Bogey, bogey then QUAD.  Chunked a big fat broken elbow drop shot into the water just like I would.

[Admiral Yi]

Theon Greyjoy is in the clubhouse with five under.  Speith needs 2 birdies in the last 3 holes to catch him. 

[Admiral Yi]

Nope.  Done.

[Maladict]

Holy shit. Watching F1 for the first time in years, Max wins the Spanish GP 

[Eddie Teach]

Oh you wacky... uhm... pejorative and/or slang term for people from Connecticut.

Yankees?

[Liep]

Danish rider Annika Langvad won the World Championship in mountain biking! In other less exciting cycling news, Cavendish won the Yellow Jersey on the first stage of the Tour de France.

[mongers]

Danish rider Annika Langvad won the World Championship in mountain biking! In other less exciting cycling news, Cavendish won the Yellow Jersey on the first stage of the Tour de France.

All the more reason to have TdF thread. 

[celedhring]

Back in the time, I used to follow TdF obsessively. Now it happens without even me noticing it. All the drug scandals really destroyed my interest for the sport.

[Liep]

Back in the time, I used to follow TdF obsessively. Now it happens without even me noticing it. All the drug scandals really destroyed my interest for the sport.

I still follow it, but not with the same obsession as I once did. Armstrong killed cycling as a professional sport for me. And now Froome is taking the last bit of fun out of the TdF.

[Duque de Bragança]

Back in the time, I used to follow TdF obsessively. Now it happens without even me noticing it. All the drug scandals really destroyed my interest for the sport.

To be fair, if other sports were as well tested for doping as cycling there would be lots of surprises...

PS: I am no fan of cycling. Tour de France always bored me though I know some names since it's a major sport.

[celedhring]

Back in the time, I used to follow TdF obsessively. Now it happens without even me noticing it. All the drug scandals really destroyed my interest for the sport.

To be fair, if other sports were as well tested for doping as cycling there would be lots of surprises...

PS: I am no fan of cycling. Tour de France always bored me though I known some names since it's a major sport.

Possibly. I have always thought that football is probably riddled with it. We almost never hear of footballers being caught using PEDs, and since I'm not going to believe they are all clean, that means the controls are lax.

I loved the epicness of those big TdF or Giro climbs, plus all the tactical dimension the sport has. I keep wanting to get back into it, but I just can't muster the emotional engagement I used to have for it before the doping scandals.

[Josquius]

Theoretical - what if there werent doping rules in sport?

Muscle bound bearded super women screaming at each other at Wimbledon?

[Duque de Bragança]

Seems Tyr missed the glorious East German female athletes. Granted, they were not competitive in tennis.