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Yep, we had to play field hockey in winter, netball, tennis, track, javelin etc, table tennis if it was too wet (we had ONE table in the changing room) ... and once or twice cricket against the boys. Then there was one class in the gym every week.

At least we had a changing room AND hot showers ..................... except we were supposed to shower, dress and take away our gym clothes in about 3 minutes flat!

That went on into the 6th Form, but we got better and better at making excuses.

Finally came my last 2 terms at the school, age 19


..... the girls' gym teacher left suddenly, and the school didn't hire a new teacher

SO we prefects had to take gym class for the girls in the first 3 years (ages 11 to 14). We weren't allowed to take them into the gym, but we had to coach them in all those sports that we'd been skipping for years.

:)))


oh yes ................... I wasn't just a prefect.

I was Girls Vice-Captain :)))))))))

I played field hockey at school. I was forced to play sport so over the formative years I played hockey, basketball, softball, soccer, tennis, table tennis. badminton. About one game of each more or less. Was always the last to be picked for the team, was an expert in physical education evasion, and my three memorable moments on the sporting field were

(1) when I flung my softball bat over my shoulder and clonked the girl behind me right in the middle of the forehead, yes there was a lump

(2) when I fell heavily on my backside during a basketball match and hurt my tailbone so badly I couldn't sit down for a long time and

(3), when doing the hockey one hockey two bit at the start of a game I collected the opponents hockey stick fair across my shins.

After that I decided that I'd rather be intelligent than sporty and took to hiding in the library. I was into my dotage before I took up any type of physical exercise again!!

I played field hockey at school :))



so around 30 athletes with Olympic hopes tried to cheat, have been caught out after drug testing by their own sports federations, and did not make it over here.

We've moved this scintillating conversation to the other thread haven't we??!!!

And well you might say, is there any other type of hockey than ice hockey.

We will say, "than field hockey."

Ah yes, I should have specified *ice* dance.

Like "ice hockey", as if there's some other kind. ;)

That's right, in ice dance.


Then there was the Salt Lake City fiasco involving the pairs skaters, who ended up also being given the Gold medal and sharing it with the Russians, because a French woman judge had been bribed.


I thought Jamie Sale and partner (what was his name? David xxxxx) also handled that in the Canadian way ......... very dignified



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I think the people/event that just typify doing it the right way, for me, were Shae-Lynn Bourne and her dance partner, what was it, two Olympics ago?

They finished their fine performance, they went into their final stance -- and they fell over. His fault I think it was, his support for her gave out. And she laughed. It's just the Canadian way. ;)

Drat, can't find any footage of it at youtube. It was Bourne and Kraatz, wasn't it?

I completely agree with you Janey


I think it is disgraceful that the courts could agree that not allowing women ski jumpers violated the Canaidan anti-discrimination law, but yet agree thatt VANOC had to bow to the rule of the IOC ............. which is still as much anti-women as it could be!

I also think it disgraceful that VANOC didn't insist on women ski jumpers being represented somehow, even as a demonstration sport.


'Course we all know that the IOC legislates the events that will be allowed in any Olympics, and sports come and go as backers can persuade the IOC.


Just a bunch of corrupt people, despite all the clean up that allegedly took place after Salt Lake City



I like to think of the athletes though, and hope that the majority of them, if not all, will be clean and honest in their events.



sylvia

Such Olympic fever. You people must really believe.

Apparently Canada has never won gold on home turf. (Montreal, Calgary: zip.)

I'm boycotting, actually, because of the exclusion of women ski jumpers.

Imagine if they had a summer Olympics in Jamaica and decided that the marathon would be open to white runners only. Or if Australia were excluded from the bobsled competition because its bobsledders are the pits.

It's beyond me how the courts here could agree to a Canadian organization, VANOC or whatever it is, holding an event that plainly violates Canadian athletes' equality / non-discrimination rights.

$$$

Mt Kosciusko?

http://www.olympics.com.au/australian-team

I just know you are all a quiver with anticipation to know about our team. It is 38. Must say I have to wonder exactly how they managed to dig up that many people who have seen snow or know what to do in it, other than throw it.

Size of Aussie contingent. That is a really strange piece of information. I understood we were sending 38 bronzed Aussies to your shores. Did not think that 38 sounded like much of an invasion.

Perhaps my comprehension on the size of this undertaking is a little off.

A googling, I will go, a googling I will go, hey ho the merry o, a googling I will go!!

AuntyS


yes, we do Boxing Day :))


One of our TV stations reporting from Whistler yesterday said that Australia had the second-largest contingent up there, after Canada.


I don't know whether that means most of the Americans haven't yet arrived, or if there really are sooooooooooooooooooo many Australian competitors



Mind you ........................ Whistler is always populated by Aussies, especially in winter. They come over here, get jobs in the service sector, ski their little heads off, then return in following years and start working on the ski hills!



sylvia

Hmmm! LOL Australian bobsled team.........

is that like Eddie the Eagle,Skiing in the Sahara?

LOL

Bob
still as long as they dont go REALLY daft like Heading the shot and catching the Javelin, they should be ok.......

The last boxing match in which I displayed any type of interest was watcihng Errol Flynn in the movie Gentleman Jim.

Sylvia IC you Canadian's do compute Boxing Day, don't you. I won't ask Janey, she has a comprehension problem.

By the way daftness returns.

Australian women's bobsled team. Are you up on the story.

We are hoping both Australia and Ireland are able to compete.

But then we don't matter in all this!!

well, we can't help the fact that you can't read :)))))

I keep reading "traditional Boxing Day match" as "traditional Boxing match" and wondering where I lost the thread ...

An Australian full of beer at a cricket match on boxing day is not a pretty sight. Thankfully these days they are out on their proverbial ears at the slightest hint of pommy bashing or any other such shenanigans.

If you have a knowledge of the game and actually read that tea towel it is a very accurate summary of the game.

Oh heavens I have to go to work. Some days a woman would just like to sit and chat. Let me see, chat or money, chat or money.

OK bye for now I'll catch you all later!!

AuntyS

we actually had that tea towel hanging on the wall in our kitchen as decoration for many years.

yep, OH went to the traditional Boxing Day match, was taken by my cousins' husbands and sons.

Sitting not that far away was a man in a 3 piece suit, and trilby hat

OH said he looked as if he was just off the boat from England


Some guys around him started barracking, calling him a Pommie bxxxxxx, threatened to pour beer over him, etc

Then one shouted "There's another one over here", pointing at OH

At which, one of the people near OH (not one of the relations) said "Nah, 'e's right, 'e's Canadian!"


Phew!