Curufinwe
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Rai Benjamin won the 400m hurdles, beating his arch rival and WR holder Karsten Warholm.
Because it's not hurling. This is dumbEveryone's focusing on how bad the Australian looked, but just watched the QF between Chinese and Lithuanian breakdancers and... How is this worse than figure skating / gymnastics? Because muh traditions?
Sure I'll give you that. Also synchronized swimmingBreaking is far more entertaining then the gymnastics with a ribbon
That's like rugby in the UK vs rugby in NZ.
Back in the day, when I was competing in epee I knew some of the guys on the US pentathlon team since they usually entered the big epee competitions. They certainly didn't seem like the private school type to me. Maybe you get a different class of athletes in the UK.![]()
Breaking is far more entertaining then the gymnastics with a ribbon
In the UK modern pentathlon, horse riding, rowing, sailing and fencing are basically "we paid 30,000 pounds a year for 15 years to send our child to school before they even turned 18 and they know four Princes and the children of four foreign dictators" sports.
Albeit a lot of lower class people in the countryside can ride. (Tbf I am the first generation in as long as records go that is not an excellent rider in my family aha... it died with my mother hating riding even though her sister was exceptional.)
Because it's not hurling. This is dumb
Sure I'll give you that. Also synchronized swimming
Tbf of those sports Fencing has the most "non-toff" participants I guess in the UK. Though still a loooot of very rich people..
Actually I knew some British fencers back then too, including this guy who I trained with for a bit: John Llewellyn (fencer) - Wikipedia
Just a regular bloke as far as I could tell. Born in Canada even
Edit: Well, this has got me reminiscing. At the time I was spending a year training in Paris at the Racing Club. Llewellyn trained there for a while until he somehow got invited to train with the French team at their training center. He was sharing a small apartment in Paris with another British fencer, a woman who also trained at the RCF. Llewellyn moved out and I was looking for a place to live so I moved in. I knew her father was a good fencer but I didn't realize quite how good:
Bill Hoskyns obituary
She definitely wasn't rich, I'm pretty sure the apartment we lived in would have been condemned if it had been in the US. But the article says her father went to Eton and then Oxford. So a bit posh maybe?
Good thing for US swim relays there's nothing to pass.Passing the baton sure looks and is harder than it sounds like it should be.
Tbf of those sports Fencing has the most "non-toff" participants I guess in the UK. Though still a loooot of very rich people.
Aha, Eton THEN Oxford? And owning an apartment in Paris city centre?
Right now Eton costs around $70,000 a year. And people go there for 6 years. It is the most exclusive school in the entirety of the UK.
He was a multi-millionaire aha with just a tiny bit of looking at Bob Hosykns...
this is the families ancestral home: North Perrott Manor House - Wikipedia
and the house he grew up in until he was 10
he had his own plane
he was a major in the British Army... before the 1960s... so basically had to be a "gentleman" at the time.
seemed to own an enormous amount of family inherited orchards and farms
he married Georgina Howard De Cardonnel Findlay... whose Grandfather was Sir Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay... one of the richest men in Britain... who grew up in Boturich Castle!
So yeh, she might not have seemed rich... but was from landed gentry on both sides of her family