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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Race (riders ready, pedals ready... GO!!) => Topic started by: Zippy on August 22, 2008, 07:20 PM
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Right Shanaze didn't win Gold like we all hoped. :(
What do you think the impact of no medal will be for us in the sport?
Do you think it will still bring in loads of new blood like we hoped, or will the impact be reduced?
Discuss?
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i think her fighting spirit will make people want to be like her too
despite having falls she got up and did her best each and every time out of the gate
she took a chance going for the big prize, it didn't work out
i think i admire her even more TBH :daumenhoch:
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Big knock for the sport in the UK. :'( Gold would have set it off massively.
However with hardly any tracks about now it probably doesn't matter as the kids would struggle to find a venue to use and experiment!
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iF SHE'd HAVE WON, IT WOULD HAVE PUT BMX BACK ON THE MAP IN THIS COUNTRY FOR SURE. Now though we are no further on than before and may have even gone backwards because she kept coming off and hurting herself. What will the health and saftey people say about that :knuppel2:
If she had taken the gold or even the silver you would find it alot easier to get the sport accepted by the general public over the next 4 years to the build up to 2012. Getting tracks built and getting people into the sport would have been alot easier if that had happend.
Must say its been great to watch though and it should deffo be on tv more :4_17_5:
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I don't think that Shinny's unfortunate failure to bring home a medal will have that much impact on the sport. What will have an impact is the exposure the sport as a whole has had. The coverage was great to watch and got people talking. There will still be TV programmers looking at including racing into their schedules just as they've done so in the past with kids shows having a bit of racing thrown in for the fun of it. Only now there will be a more aware audience - hey, that's that sport that was in the Olympics innit?? However, the opportunity to ride a BMX track, let alone race on one, is greatly reduced as so many have disappeared without trace. Those tracks that are left need willing volunteers to supervise goings on, organise some races and generally run clubs to support them. Sadly, that falls to rather a limited few who are usually riders themselves and, to be honest, would rather ride than organise events for others. The sport will need lots of fresh blood on the operational side if we are to support the new tracks that could spring up like a rash. It's not enough to let the Regional teams run meetings at each track, a track will usually only get one Regional event per Series which isn't enough to satisfy the local community. Running a local Series takes time, enthusiasm, more time and a hardcore of about a dozen people. If RADsters want to see the sport grow then they'll need to get more involved at grassroots level. Just my opinion. Discuss. Humps
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Where do i sighn :)
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No discussion needed Alan, you have said it all 8)
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theres no such thing as bad publicity.
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bmx is now an olympic sport so it gets funded it never did before some funding is better than a kick in the gonads imo.
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I thought the track sucked especially that first berm.
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I thought the track sucked especially that first berm.
Yeah, what the fook was on that first berm, oil :LolLolLolLol:
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Humps for Prime Minister !!!!!!!!:4_17_5:
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well we should do better in 2012 :4_17_5:
shes still very good :daumenhoch:
cheeers
ollie
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Obviously the impact will be reduced as Shanaze didn't win gold, but the exposure the BMX got will still generate interest. There must be old schoolers out there who haven't even heard the word BMX since they quit in the 80s, but all the media attention on Shanaze and the Games will have at least brought it back to their attention and hopefully they will catch the bug again and bring their kids.
Like Sano said, it's all good publicity. Even if it brings a 10-20% increase in rider count per regional, that's still a good start.
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yep
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I think BMX being in the olympics will really help with getting the teenagers involved..... Not so sure about the pocket rockets though as I think the parents will be too scared after all the injuries from last few days .... if only they'd of been wearing armour ??? I dont think Shanaze not getting gold will affect it too much, people are talking about BMX again regardless.
Totally agree with Humps though, there's no point getting new tracks if no one wants to run them. Most of the current tracks could do with additional helpers. Parents seem all too keen to send their kids to the track for the day but they dont want to be anywhere near!!
Nicholas will be pleased as atleast when he takes his latest trophy to school his friends will now no how hard it was for him to earn it, not the walk in the park they all seemed to think up until now :)
Sharon xx
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Think Humps covered it, but with things like the commentator getting well into it never seeing it before and the reaction I got earlier thisevening when I went down pub after work. Pub friends, if you like that know I ride BMX but do give it the " come down on your sons push iron again" were all watching the highlights and were gripped saying " is that what you do!". Didnt have the balls to admit i'm not a hundreth of Marius Srombergs ability or pace but the interest and excitement it generated was a site to behold. Good sport this! :daumenhoch:
Choked
Martin
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Where do i sighn :)
Lee, i'll give you one of these :-* so you understand i still love you and then i'll post :daumenhoch:
We have asked numerous people to help out at Dagenham, the old schoolers especially.......and got mostly............. what we have, thankfully, is a hardcore elite committee who thankfully commit to the club week in week out. Last year we could have been counted amongst them, this year due to our situation we have taken a step back, maybe there is an opening there for you mate????????, it's all grass roots baby :4_17_5:
Right, Shinny, that girl rode the final absolutely on her last legs, she rode her ass off at all times, it's all that was asked and she did exactly that. Will she do it again...... if she sticks to BMX then YES, if she goes to VELO YES again, my own view, get on with it babe, do what is best for you, financially and emotionally :daumenhoch:
Any detriment to the sport, hell no, i stood in a bike shop today with parents led in by kids wanting BMX bikes cos "i saw it on telly". The only problem is they stock freestyle bmx not racing but hey ho, all BMX is good :smitten:
As to the motive of this thread, lets focus for a minute.........Shinny rode soo impressivly, she rode hard and fast, i dont think she was out classed, bad luck happens, it's life......
Imagine being 19, the whole country is counting on you and judging you, this happens whether it be by bad management, lack of judgement or just sheer bad luck, you arrive back in the UK to this crap, how much will it hurt her emotionally, hardly positive.....................
Shanaze, you did fookin brill girl, i know it's not what you wanted but it WILL HAPPEN, whether in BMX or VELO, follow your dreams, reach for the sky and you WILL achieve even more than you already have :daumenhoch:
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I went on a stag do to Warsaw this year for one of the lads on my team. About 16 of us altogether and 8 of us took our 4X bikes cos there was a 4X race on that weekend. The other 8 lads didn't know anything about 4X but came to watch and most of them were blown away by the racing, had a few laps on our bikes and said they wanted to get bikes when they got home. I imagine the Olympics BMX will have the same effect on some people.
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i may sound really sad but i've been really annoyed about Shanaze Reade not winning all day as i've been wanting her to win for months at the Olympics. I'm really peed off about it >:(
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Where do i sighn :)
As to the motive of this thread, lets focus for a minute.........Shinny rode soo impressivly, she rode hard and fast, i dont think she was out classed, bad luck happens, it's life......
Imagine being 19, the whole country is counting on you and judging you, this happens whether it be by bad management, lack of judgement or just sheer bad luck, you arrive back in the UK to this crap, how much will it hurt her emotionally, hardly positive.....................
Shanaze, you did fookin brill girl, i know it's not what you wanted but it WILL HAPPEN, whether in BMX or VELO, follow your dreams, reach for the sky and you WILL achieve even more than you already have :daumenhoch:
Not sure what you meant by the comment about the purpose of the thread and coming back to this crap ???
I think you've missunderstood the purpose of the thread. This is not about her in general but the impact of her not winning gold today and how that will affect the numbers of riders wanting to buy a bmx and take up racing?
Certainly not knocking her for trying her best. She did us proud and will continue to do so. :daumenhoch:
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We are all bitterly disappointed about Shanaze not winning that goes without saying. I went to bed in a right mood. :yahoo_silent:
BUT none of us are as dissapointed as she is I bet. :tickedoff:
AND the response I got about our sport today has given me a real buzz. :D
Martin
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Where do i sighn :)
As to the motive of this thread, lets focus for a minute.........Shinny rode soo impressivly, she rode hard and fast, i dont think she was out classed, bad luck happens, it's life......
Imagine being 19, the whole country is counting on you and judging you, this happens whether it be by bad management, lack of judgement or just sheer bad luck, you arrive back in the UK to this crap, how much will it hurt her emotionally, hardly positive.....................
Shanaze, you did fookin brill girl, i know it's not what you wanted but it WILL HAPPEN, whether in BMX or VELO, follow your dreams, reach for the sky and you WILL achieve even more than you already have :daumenhoch:
Not sure what you meant by the comment about the purpose of the thread and coming back to this crap ???
I think you've missunderstood the purpose of the thread. This is not about her in general but the impact of her not winning gold today and how that will affect the numbers of riders wanting to buy a bmx and take up racing?
Certainly not knocking her for trying her best. She did us proud and will continue to do so. :daumenhoch:
Si,
It's like the whole future of BMX rested on her shoulders, it didn't, BMX just being shown was a positive, the kids i watched today just wanted a BMX because it was wicked in the Olympics, nowt do do with Shinny or her impact, hense why i highlighted about coming back to "this crap", why the hell is it that she should face this, she rode her fookin heart out. Whatever happened with Shanaze BMX was being put on the map, that's why i dont like the title of the post, it will have no impact, BMX has finally been shown as a wicked sport, whoever won......................
Si i wont row with you anymore mate, i cant be arsed, IMO Shinny did everything she could........end of, BMX rocks in kids eyes, end of..........................
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We are all bitterly disappointed about Shanaze not winning that goes without saying. I went to bed in a right mood. :yahoo_silent:
BUT none of us are as dissapointed as she is I bet. :tickedoff:
AND the response I got about our sport today has given me a real buzz. :D
Martin
I'll Defo Go To Bed In A Mood :yahoo_silent:
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Not going to have a row with you Nik. :LolLolLolLol:
I'm genuinely interested in people opinions about how the olympics will affect our sport and also the effect that we didn't win after expecting to. The girl done the best she could, that's all we can ask.
I'm probably like everyone else really fired up to get out and race , just pi55ed I have to wait until 14th Sept to do it. :LolLolLolLol:
I think the biggest hurddle we all now face is the changing of peoples opinions that bmx is a kids sport when in actual fact the older riders are probably the biggest group out there.
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Shows your passion for the sport Magna and I like that. :daumenhoch:
Martin
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Shows your passion for the sport Magna and I like that. :daumenhoch:
Martin
Thanks Martin. :), Wish I Could Contact Her Through And E-Mail Or Blog And Tell Her How Upset I Am About The Crash :(
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I went out on a works do tonight and there were 11 of us and I answered so many questions about BMX because they watched it on the tv,this morning they were all too scared to ask me about it after last nights dissapointment :LolLolLolLol:
the upshot was that all of them now see what I do as NOT "riding a kids bike" but a legitimate sport and every single one of them was in awe at Shanaze and how she battled :daumenhoch:
also I went in cyclesport in Grantham and they said calls about race bikes were coming in thick and fast
:) DINGO :)
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makes me laugh the negative vibes because she crashed, just watch it all over again, she wasnt
settling for silver, it was gold or nothing, you can tell in that final, she crashed on the last berm going
100 mph to WIN, thats what will inspire loads of kids to be like Shanaze.
she has made bmx a taliking point in the uk today, job done :daumenhoch:
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makes me laugh the negative vibes because she crashed, just watch it all over again, she wasnt
settling for silver, it was gold or nothing, you can tell in that final, she crashed on the last berm going
100 mph to WIN, thats what will inspire loads of kids to be like Shanaze.
she has made bmx a taliking point in the uk today, job done :daumenhoch:
I agree with you Dan, even up to the crash she was not gonna let ACC get away, she wanted that Gold badly, 110% all they way :daumenhoch:
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Have sent out 3 membership forms in the last 2 days, to people who have never done it and havent even seen our track yet.
Medal or not the good work has been done.
I think her fighting spirit has endeered her into the nations hearts, she is still the best on our little island :Great_Britain:
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makes me laugh the negative vibes because she crashed, just watch it all over again, she wasnt
settling for silver, it was gold or nothing, you can tell in that final, she crashed on the last berm going
100 mph to WIN, thats what will inspire loads of kids to be like Shanaze.
she has made bmx a taliking point in the uk today, job done :daumenhoch:
I agree with you Dan, she went for gold as it should be. It takes a lot of guts to take a risk like that when you are in a guaranteed silver medal position.
After all, second place is first loser!!!! :LolLolLolLol:
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I was having a conversasion with my wife earlier this week about how some people seem so happy about a silver and bronze medal. They lost, they didn't win, what's to smile about. If I'd have come that close I'd have been the most upset person on earth to have worked so hard yet failed by the smallest of margins.
Win or Bin I reckon. Do it the Schwantz way. :LolLolLolLol:
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I was having a conversasion with my wife earlier this week about how some people seem so happy about a silver and bronze medal. They lost, they didn't win, what's to smile about. If I'd have come that close I'd have been the most upset person on earth to have worked so hard yet failed by the smallest of margins.
Win or Bin I reckon. Do it the Schwantz way. :LolLolLolLol:
win or bin, no truer word in my house ;D
there's a new big trick everytime with billy when it matters,
i've lost count of comps or jams where i've watched billy doing sweet in comps then the
WIN OR BIN trick comes out,, he never wins cause he bins every time but that's whats makng these kids
in bmx stand out, why win if it's not how you wanted it, :)
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Shinny is a marketable product, she's better lookign than Lewis Hamilton with similar backgrounds; the media will love her and with that will come benefits for BMX and any other sport or activity she gets involved with.
2012 is where she will make the biggest impact for UK BMX :daumenhoch:.
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Shows your passion for the sport Magna and I like that. :daumenhoch:
Martin
Thanks Martin. :), Wish I Could Contact Her Through And E-Mail Or Blog And Tell Her How Upset I Am About The Crash :(
http://www.new.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=27660631267&ref=nf&#/profile.php?id=535650021
:daumenhoch:
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15 of us at work never heard anybody say anything about BMX before even though they know I ride, all I heard Friday morning was Andy what did you think of that girl on the telly doing the BMX then. It's made people talk about BMX RACING and realise it's still out there and is for all ages, well done Shinny :daumenhoch:
While people are talking I'm starting to send letters to Gatehead council about Whickham Kellogs's track, lets see if that can get a revamp out of it
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While people are talking I'm starting to send letters to Gatehead council about Whickham Kellogs's track, lets see if that can get a revamp out of it
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I'm doing the same with Muselburgh (just outside Edinburgh) I'll keep you all posted.
Plinky
Was the Gateshead track the one that had the really long downhill sweeping first straight! Raced a National there back in '86 I think, have some pics somewhere. I'll try and get them scanned and posted.
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Whickham's the track with the 2 start hills from the 84 Kelloggs series. I think the track you are thinking about was called Weaverdale? in Newcastle's Wallend area had to have had the longest first straight ever but them the bugger came back up the hill ;D
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give it a couple of weeks and everyone will forget bmx as olympics will be over , it happen`s with tennis ie court full up and then quiet again a few weeks later
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I think now, due to this... there will be track's poping up everywhere...
Liverpool city council are having a track built soon... down to Bmx in the Olympics!!
Shanaze Reade is an inspiration... true fighting spirit!! :daumenhoch:
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I think BMX racing will benefit just as much as if Shanaze had brought home the gold medal. We're now seen as an Olympic SPORT, not a fad, not a hobby or pastime, but an officially recognised Olympic SPORT. I don't think we will have any problem convincing people that BMX isn't a kids sport - How many kids could ride the Olympic track?
Shanaze will be (and already is TBH) an inspiration to a new generation of BMX racers. She'll be so disappointed that she didn't win gold, to show all those outside BMX that she is the best in the world. All of us in the BMX community already know that, and I expect most of those watching BMX racing for the first time this week will realise that Shanaze was the fastest and most powerful rider in her class and only bad luck kept her from getting the gold we all know she was easily capable of winning. Shanaze knows that no-one remembers who came second, we only remember the winners. Second place is first loser. That's the mentality that makes her a champion.
We're already drafting big plans up here in Scotland, already talking with very enthusiastic local authorities about building new tracks, plus a few other big projects which are being kept under wraps just now, and none of this would be happening without the hype and publicity the Olympics has supplied. It really is up to us in the BMX community to exploit this positive response to the Olympic bmx racing, and help our sport grow and improve, in terms of numbers of riders, quality coaching and world class facilities.
The future looks bright for bmx racing. And gold medal or not, a lot of the credit for this should go to Shanaze.
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I was having a conversasion with my wife earlier this week about how some people seem so happy about a silver and bronze medal. They lost, they didn't win, what's to smile about. If I'd have come that close I'd have been the most upset person on earth to have worked so hard yet failed by the smallest of margins.
Win or Bin I reckon. Do it the Schwantz way. :LolLolLolLol:
i do not agree, thats the chineese way,they have failed and let down the country,if its NOT GOLD
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Defo good news for BMX racing - all the coverage and people talking about it (everyone i've spoken to has been well impresed, my inlaws were like wow those bmx tracks you ride are mental! ) people respect it more now :daumenhoch:
I'd like to see more BMX racing on TV, i used to have all the kellogs on betamax 8) - thinking about it the format for it was good, big US names vs UK riders. (i also reckon the format of speedway with teams competing against each other would work in TV bmx racing and make it more exciting)
So will vert (if introduced) in the 2012 olympics have the same impact?
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goes without saying if shed won a medal bmx would have been more coverage in the papers and on the tv. but shanaze had true fighting spirit . yeah she fell but she got back up and wanted one medal and that was gold good on her. but its gona take more than 1 person falling off to get bmx as big as it was in the 80,s to many people talking a good race and not enough people getting of the arses and getting involved in bringing the old tracks ,jumps and trails back alive.
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got into an argument at work on friday about shanaze, he doesn't think it should be an olympic sport, i called him a coffin dodger! then he went on to say that shanaze was rubbish as she kept falling off, and that its rubbish to watch, i then called him a twat! what i couldn't get this twat coffin dodger understand was the mentallity of a bmxer. he was going on about settling for silver and at least getting something from the games, he likes the athletics! he couldn't understand that in the sport of bmx it's all or nothing! nobody lines up at a start gate to finish second, i admire that a lot, i especially admire that in shanaze for keeping that mentallity at the top! at the end of the day we want to win!
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I'd rather go home with a silver than nothing,what's the point of putting all the hard work just to finish on your a*se?
she's brave for getting up time after time and carrying on but when she woke up the next day with nothing to show but cuts and bruisers.
she lives to fight another day but as the old saying goes "pride will come before a fall"
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Seeing the racing and the sheer spectacle of it all, including her bulldog spirit, has inspired me to byuy a race bike and go racing. So it must have done to others too!
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I've heard loads of people talking about it!!
it's had a real impact on the non-bmx world...
had a Hackney driver telling me his heart was in his mouth watching it!!
just wish vert, park & the big air was there too!! :-\
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i had a arguement today my sister`s other half as he said why was bmx in the olympics as it`s a kid sport :knuppel2:
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We will always be tarnished with the kids bikes thing.
Funny how the World Cup isn't seen as little boys in the park with jumpers for goalposts. :-\
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the tracks are too scary
NO kid wants to do it
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Hey, Shanaze might not have won a medal but she'll be remembered as someone who went down fighting.
That swimmer who won silver in the 10k swim will be remembered as the bell end who was leading with a few hundred metres to go but then lost a guaranteed gold medal by swimming away from the finish line :uglystupid2:
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I think ppl are forgetting, she is only 19 years old!! 19!!!!
she'll be back for 2012!!! ( it's only 4 years )
she'll still be young, fit & healthy and probably stronger... and next time it's GOLD!!
I've heard ppl doubt she will still be riding bmx then... c'mon... bmx is in her blood, as it is in ours!!
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Can she ride in more than 1 discipline at the next olympics? - track and BMX?
Which brings me on to the next question, why did GB only have 1 male and 1 female when other countries had several? I am sure if we had a Dale Holmes in there we might have had a bit of a chance in the mens....
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just read through this last page of comments. who the f@ck wants a silver.??? think about it this way. if a boxer gets in the ring he wants to win not come second coz second is last!!! thats what shanaze did she went for it . shit or bust. see thats why great britain aint so great anymore to many people settling for second best. shanaze has a great fighting british spirit. so for all u silver or bronzers out there or well at least i took part .adopt another country. winners only in great britain.
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The way I see it is that, Shanaze may have been a little more injured than she was letting on, but the way she came out fighting in the final has made her a moral winner in many peoples eyes (non bmx fans included), this got loads of people talking which can only be good, and if these people were pointed towards a track in their area (if they were lucky enough to have one nearby) they would see how things are done at a grass roots level or regional, national etc.
Publicity is the key, its up to some of us to get in the mix and spread the word about. :4_17_5:
TK
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Hopefully with the brits being on Sky Sports it'll get even more people involved/interested/informed about the sport.
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I was having a conversasion with my wife earlier this week about how some people seem so happy about a silver and bronze medal. They lost, they didn't win, what's to smile about. If I'd have come that close I'd have been the most upset person on earth to have worked so hard yet failed by the smallest of margins.
Win or Bin I reckon. Do it the Schwantz way. :LolLolLolLol:
i do not agree, thats the chineese way,they have failed and let down the country,if its NOT GOLD
Takes me back this post...... 1993, Swedish Euros, my best Euro result ever, 2nd, me and my dad just avoided each other all night after that, we both knew i should have won. Did 2nd matter NO, i was there to win and i fooked up, that is exactly why Shinny made/tried to make that move.
2nd is exactly what someone else said 1st Loser
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Apparently Gordon Brown has praised Shanaze Reade as a shining example to our youth with her win or bust bulldog attitude.
I think the Hard work is down to us now, by that I mean the clubs and shops and the riders themselves. We need to push this sport as much as possible now.
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I think a shift in attitude is needed, this "taking part is OK" crap needs to go....................... where's the killer instinct ??????????????
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Just seen a few blogs on the bbc sport site with people naming their high and low lights. A few named Shanaze as their lowlight, but only in asense that they were gutted for her and that her attitude of first only was spot on (although one to$$er said she bottled it and let down the cycling team), and she wasnt the only one with that mentality in the GB team, Idowu and womens four rowing, and they both got silver
TK
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is there knowbody on here that is proud of there 2nd and 3rd place trophys?
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I would have been grateful to get that high up in anything, but the point I'm making is that when our lame excuse of a football team and their high wages limp through year after year and seemingly settle for quarter finals, it is nice to see our athletes giving their absolute all for the win, and enough respect to them for it :Great_Britain:
TK
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is there knowbody on here that is proud of there 2nd and 3rd place trophys?
I think there is a story about Graeme Souness walking into a dressing room after a football final with a runners up medal. He supposedly threw it on a table and said "anybody want that? because I f**king don't"
Personally think he's a tw@t,not for that, but that shows his winning mentality.
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<<That swimmer who won silver in the 10k swim will be remembered as the bell end who was leading with a few hundred metres to go but then lost a guaranteed gold medal by swimming away from the finish line >>
Mike did you do the same? Get up thinking it was on, only to spend half an hour watching the swimmer and screaming at the telly? ;D
If anyone needs any proof that BMX racing should/shouldn't be an Olympic sport, go watch a bunch of swimmers disoriented in a fewkin lake (by the way, I thought he did great and was a credit to the country (Britain not Wales ::)), just on a downer because I'd set my alarm and been all organised).
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is there knowbody on here that is proud of there 2nd and 3rd place trophys?
No, I'm so angry and gutted when I just get beat that it almost hurts.
What we do is called racing and the idea is to come 1st, anything else is called losing.
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I think a shift in attitude is needed, this "taking part is OK" crap needs to go....................... where's the killer instinct ??????????????
Spot on Mrs R,
I used to hate losing, even against my twin brother.... it made for some interesting car journeys back from the racing. The good thing was, he hated losing aswell so we both knew the score.
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I think a shift in attitude is needed, this "taking part is OK" crap needs to go....................... where's the killer instinct ??????????????
:daumenhoch: :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:
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I think a shift in attitude is needed, this "taking part is OK" crap needs to go....................... where's the killer instinct ??????????????
It's the same in schools these days, they have "non-competetive" sports days, I mean whats the point of that? There will always be winners and losers in life and kids should learn that from an early age.
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Just been looking through the results on British Cycling from the Brits this weekend. By my reckoning of the 620 riders there were over 250 above the age of 16. Who says BMX racing is just for kids!! Just an observation and fuel for the knockers to be hit with. Humps
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<<That swimmer who won silver in the 10k swim will be remembered as the bell end who was leading with a few hundred metres to go but then lost a guaranteed gold medal by swimming away from the finish line >>
Mike did you do the same? Get up thinking it was on, only to spend half an hour watching the swimmer and screaming at the telly? ;D
If anyone needs any proof that BMX racing should/shouldn't be an Olympic sport, go watch a bunch of swimmers disoriented in a fewkin lake (by the way, I thought he did great and was a credit to the country (Britain not Wales ::)), just on a downer because I'd set my alarm and been all organised).
Yeah, I woke up for the BMX, which was then cancelled. Couldn't get back to sleep so watched the 10K swim. In fairness, he did swim brilliantly and led the whole race, but he should've won the gold if he knew where he was going. I remember him leading by about 5-7 body lengths with around 750 metres to go and the commentator saying something like "only a serious navigational error will prevent him winning the gold", then I went to take a leak, got back and there was about 200 metres to go and he was swimming away from the finish line then being overtaken by the Dutch bloke.
The only consolation I guess was the Dutch bloke was a cancer survivor and was considered the Lance Armstrong of swimming, so there was a nice/interesting story in there, and perhaps it was simply his destiny to win it.
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just stumbled on this :).
let hope its better news this time round.
and hows things changed in them 4 years ?.
my god theres some old names on there i not seen for a good while.
wonder where they all gone :-\
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Just thought the same mate , munners and jimmyp . I miss munners mindless ranting and jimmyp's madness :idiot2: :2funny:
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id only just discovered this place back then,i wish id never bothered now ;D
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id only just discovered this place back then,i wish id never bothered now ;D
So do we Mark, so do we.... :LolLolLolLol:
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id only just discovered this place back then,i wish id never bothered now ;D
So do we Mark, so do we.... :LolLolLolLol:
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Sadly I think the only impact she'll have is with the floor when she falls..............again :-\
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Sadly I think the only impact she'll have is with the floor when she falls..............again :-\
And that will be one fooking big impact crater she will leave in the dirt.
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on a positive note , prior to the Olympic bmxing one of our local tracks I ride occasionally used to have
very little interest , on a Saturday might be me & three others , now you gotta que to get on busy as took .
Also all the new bikes appearing on the scene :)
Halfords & the independent bike shops must be rubbing there hands £££££££££££££
So Bmx is back on the map :4_17_5:
Well done shanze & Liam
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Halfords & the independent bike shops must be rubbing there hands £££££££££££££
Has Shanaze signed up to do a signature bike range yet? I'm guessing it won't be long.
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_14552_productId_871172_langId_-1_categoryId_null
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Will they come with stabilisers?? ;D
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Will they come with stabilisers?? ;D
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they are both great ambasadors for the sport shaz and liam.and the tv coverage of the olympic bmx was good so i reckon it will have huge effect on bmx racing /riding kids are gonna wanna try it everywhere for sure
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Most clubs have experienced lots of interest this weekend.. its up to the clubs to keep their interest up...
I thought they both raced brilliantly... Liam ahead of the pack both days - unclipped it happens.. Shanaze gambled on the inside gate even thoguh she has been gating from 5 all day blew her gate as did Buchanan - its racing.. if it was the same result every race it would be boring as cat shit. Fact is they are the quickest weve got by a long way but the futures bright... 4 years will see some amazing development for British BMX - Quillian races Elite for the first time at peterboro next weekend should be interesting....
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4 years will see some amazing development for British BMX - Quillian races Elite for the first time at peterboro next weekend should be interesting....
Bang on Si. A big step for Quillian, good luck to the lad.
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Great to see BMX on mainstream TV again - it's been too long. Let's hope the interest shown over the past week or so continues because BMX has always been exciting to watch from a spectators point of view - better than bloody football anyway!!