And a cross country run, yes?
Can't say I've ever understood it, really odd random combination of sporting pursuits. Perhaps some historic quirk from the inbred landed gentry is all I can guess.
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Olympics Tokyo 2021 - sport
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Can't say I've ever understood it, really odd random combination of sporting pursuits. Perhaps some historic quirk from the inbred landed gentry is all I can guess.
Garside was brave but well-beaten by the world champion, who as a Cuban is really a full time professional.
Having watched all his fights, I'd say Garside gets tagged too often to carry his hands that low. And a few times when he did slip Cruz's punch he didn't take the open shot to the body. If he's going to have his lead hand so low I'd like to see him jab more - it's hard for the opponent to pick up when it starts below the waist. At the moment he leads with his left (rear) hand and doesn't use the jab or the lead hook to the body enough.
Having watched all his fights, I'd say Garside gets tagged too often to carry his hands that low. And a few times when he did slip Cruz's punch he didn't take the open shot to the body. If he's going to have his lead hand so low I'd like to see him jab more - it's hard for the opponent to pick up when it starts below the waist. At the moment he leads with his left (rear) hand and doesn't use the jab or the lead hook to the body enough.
It was one of the things de Coubertin pushed for at the start of the whole thing. It combines the elements that a soldier could reasonably be expected to encounter. Riding, fencing, swimming, running and shooting.
Yes comes from that era when you pretty much had to be landed gentry to get into the officer ranks. You could see it being the type of sport done in institutions that educated that officer class, such as Sandhurst or Saint-Cyr.
Based on my very limited research - it seems that it used to consist of a separate Shooting and Running event, however these have now been combined into a "Laser Run". They seem to run 3.2km and shoot targets with a laser along the way. Bizarre. The Laser Run is on tonight for anyone interested haha.
There was a US swimmer named Misty Hyman.There was a German alpine skier named Fanny Chmelar
Absolutely. gets away with it against slower fighters,
But Cruz just kept smacking him in the head.
Put them up and stepped in in the last, so Cruz just upper cut him on the chin at will.
Did well to medal, and unlucky to be on Cruz's side of the draw or I reckon he would have got silver.
Yeah don’t know much about boxing but I watched him against Borat in the QF and was surprised that he didn’t cover his head with his gloves more.
You reckon things could get …wait for it …wait for it….CLOGGED up a bit ?
