I’d recommend listening to it on Five Live. Horse dancing on the radio.
is that right after the women's beach volleyball?
PSA: The horse dancing is starting
Mock all you like, for some kids; dressage is literally their only ticket out of the ghetto.
I thought I heard the feint lilt of the "Blue Danube" coming across the park from the council flats and sure enough...I can see them all practicing on their horses...Those that aren't spinning like tops and kicking each other in the head, obviously.
Lovely scenes
Well, Dujardin isn't from the humble background that some of you can boast about, I'm sure... but she's state school educated and not from the super moneyed background that you might be assuming. She now lives near my Mum, and the gold postbox there was very welcome... not everyone is quite so chippy about the sporting route others take.
Using horse dancing as her way of escape from the badlands of The Chilterns should be an inspiration to us all. State educated too, so barely literate? 😉
Mock all you like, for some kids; dressage is literally their only ticket out of the ghetto.
Stevenage?
Stevenage?
Surely Staines
We're heading slightly off topic here, can we get back to saying what an unappealing dullard Claire I'll commentate on just about anything Balding is.
Has anyone seen Eddie Izzard and Claire Balding in the same room together. 🤔 😀
😄 sports personality awards a few years back, but I think it was split screen or cgi.
She should do audio books for insomniacs, Alexa has more personality.
While clearly I’m biased towards inclusion,
I'm also for inclusion, but the challenge I have is when the winning margin is tiny and the test-retest residual error unknown. On another day the winner could be second solely on the grounds of unconscious bias Daley and Lee won with 471.81 and silver was awarded to the Chinese with 470.58, Bronze was 439.92, a huge difference. Now the winning margin is 0.26% of the mean of the top two scores. That's a draw in my book.
There are five dives, and 10 judges, each judge scores based on 0-10 in half-points. The two outliers are removed and the result multiplied by a set difficulty. Different judges score different aspects of the dive. They are summed and averaged. Sadly you can't randomise or blind the judges so there will always be subjective and unconscious bias. I think it's a pretty cool system actually.
I have no idea about horse dancing.
We’re heading slightly off topic here, can we get back to saying what an unappealing dullard Claire I’ll commentate on just about anything Balding is.
I like Balding. She is very very horsey though... so might put others off. Enjoying all the presenters actually... Boardman looks like a man who's not slept for weeks though... like a new dad. You get the feeling Alex Scott could smile through an apocalypse... I'm down with that positive style. Lutalo Muhammad should read book at bedtime.
Just watched a bit of women's gymnastics floor action on catch-up. Awesome tumbling with some cringeworthy posing in between that isn't quite dancing. Surely the stereotype-reinforcing differences between the men's and women's events is going to have to go? I bet those guys could bust some even cooler moves if allowed to get a bit creative.
Plus it is a bit like the horse-dancing, one reads about the historical abuse that has gone on in the sport and wonders.
there were a pair of gymnasts on Radio 5 live yesterday saying that all gymnasts are midgets and crippled early because of the damage they do to the growth plates of their bones at a young age. They weren't exactly selling it to parents wondering whether little Johnny/Jane should take up gymnastics!
Lutalo Muhammad should read book at bedtime.
He is probably the BBC find of the games
Any number of sports have a litany of mentally and physically broken youngsters at all levels, hopefully those mistakes aren't being repeated.
My cousins daughter was a Team GB rhythmic gymnast. Arguably not quite as much impact as the regular gymnasts, but a long history of injuries.
LittleMissMC does display gymnastics, and her squad have represented British Gymnastics abroad. Much more fun and relaxed at her level. Mind you, she's 5'2, size 14 and holds her school shot put record, so not a typical gymnast 🤣
I have no idea about horse dancing.
As long as you spin around when you're trying to kick them in the head, they can't see it coming, so it's not cruel. A 6.5 pointer...
I think that's how it works.
By contrast clay shooting. You either hit or (me) miss. Count the number of hits.
Pedantic arse mode; You quite often hear pellets hit the clay, and even see holes in them, without them breaking and scoring a point.
They should use real pigeons...if they don't die, you don't score
You quite often hear pellets hit the clay... and scoring a point.
Is there a tool that can mimic that sound. I need it!
And I rather like Claire.
My wife has just informed me that the Queen gave Claire Balding her first pony. She might be just a little bit horsey
They should use real pigeons…if they don’t die, you don’t score
That's how it used to be done. I think the pigeon had to hit the ground (dead or alive) within an area marked on the ground around the trap it was released from. Banned in the UK in 1921, still goes on in Spain I believe.
Slightly on-topic it seems to have been un-official side event at the 1900 Paris Olympics. I just went done a bit on an internet rabbit hole - the winner of that event looks interesting apparently he trained a pet fox as a gundog!
Is there a tool that can mimic that sound. I need it!
That's not goign to help, maybe I could have been clearer, but hit or not, if it doesn't break you don't get a point.
That’s not goign to help, maybe I could have been clearer, but hit or not, if it doesn’t break you don’t get a point.
Sounds like the ideal situation to bring in a judge....
Sounds like the ideal situation to bring in a judge….
one with good hearing?
if he hears the real pigeon squawk but not die, do you get the point?
timmys
That’s how it used to be done. I think the pigeon had to hit the ground (dead or alive) within an area marked on the ground around the trap it was released from.
Were they still fired out of a catapult-flinger thing?
I like Balding. She knows sport and seems to have a genuine passion for it.
I love the Olympics and really enjoy watching sports that I would never usually watch, I enjoy learning about them. Dressage though, it utterly defeats me. I cannot even begin to fathom how that can be justified as an Olympic sport.
Were they still fired out of a catapult-flinger thing?
I think it was released from a cage/trap by pulling a cord. Hence why you still shout "Pull" when you want someone to operate the flinger thing - which is still called a trap.
