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MdubSTYLIE

MdubSTYLIE

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1st No one will care
2nd ....... who cares
3rd For .... sake

Only thing that matters, where did Rossi finish?
8th to a stand obviation.
 
Remember when Krops, Hack Oxley, and MotoGP's website wrote exclusive human triumph articles announcing and pondering with great existential examination about Lorenzo's next day return to MotoGP after suffering a broken bone? Prompting one reader to exclaim: "It is beautiful that it isn't numbers or rationality but sheer drive. Fully alive. Trancending immense obstacles and pain. The few so very congruent with greatness are so wonderful! I am inspired." (quote taken from MM comments section)

Remember?

Never has a rider overcome such injury and risked so much to return to racing. I'm sure we will have a lap of honor to applaud never before seen determination.
 
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Jumkie said:
Remember when Krops, Hack Oxley, and MotoGP's website wrote exclusive human triumph articles announcing and pondering with great existential examination about Lorenzo's next day return to MotoGP after suffering a broken bone? Prompting one reader to exclaim: "It is beautiful that it isn't numbers or rationality but sheer drive. Fully alive. Trancending immense obstacles and pain. The few so very congruent with greatness are so wonderful! I am inspired." (quote taken from MM comments section)

Remember?

Never has a rider overcome such injury and risked so much to return to racing. I'm sure we will have a lap of honor to applaud never before seen determination.
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The funny thing about racing injured is peoples opinion depend on how you do. Finishing is heroic falling is moronic. Relativity at it finest.
 
Jumkie said:
Remember when Krops, Hack Oxley, and MotoGP's website wrote exclusive human triumph articles announcing and pondering with great existential examination about Lorenzo's next day return to MotoGP after suffering a broken bone? Prompting one reader to exclaim: "It is beautiful that it isn't numbers or rationality but sheer drive. Fully alive. Trancending immense obstacles and pain. The few so very congruent with greatness are so wonderful! I am inspired." (quote taken from MM comments section)

Remember?

Never has a rider overcome such injury and risked so much to return to racing. I'm sure we will have a lap of honor to applaud never before seen determination.
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What those journo's fail to mention is that is what athletes do.
Well.......most athletes
 
Rossi riding with a 3 week healed broken leg is somewhat admirable. I'll never forget Nat Fyfe playing a preliminary final of football with a broken leg. That's ....... tough.
 
p4p1 said:
Rossi riding with a 3 week healed broken leg is somewhat admirable. I'll never forget Nat Fyfe playing a preliminary final of football with a broken leg. That's ....... tough.
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Had to go read that, what a man! Is this football a bit like rugby?
 
Theo said:
Had to go read that, what a man! Is this football a bit like rugby?
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AFL so I guess similar in a way but nothing a like. He was almost best on ground that day as well.
 
p4p1 said:
AFL so I guess similar in a way but nothing a like. He was almost best on ground that day as well.
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Who cares? A stupid parochial sport, and the second smallest "football" code in the world.
 
Dub and Jknock, you nailed it. Of course it's praiseworthy that Rossi is returning from a broken leg, but it's not exactly extraordinary in this context. At least not to the level the media attention will find ways to grandirossize it.

I expect a media tone similar to the one we just saw where the entire paddock was forced to comment on Rossi's training activity, this time requiring everybody to comment on their thoughts of returning so soon and how heroic or folly it may be.

Let's play a game:

Name the injury the rider had whilst racing and people try to guess the rider. I'll start:


Injury: broken back

(That seems rather severe right? Can you imagine the implications of re-injuring it?)

If you live in a glass house don't throw rocks.
 
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michaelm said:
Who cares? A stupid parochial sport, and the second smallest "football" code in the world.
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Still harder to play a game on a broken leg than riding a bike after it's been healing for 3 weeks.

A ....... exciting sport and great fun to play.
 
Jumkie said:
Dub and Jknock, you nailed it. Of course it's praiseworthy that Rossi is returning from a broken leg, but it's not exactly extraordinary in this context. At least not to the level the media attention will find ways to grandirossize it.

I expect a media tone similar to the one we just saw where the entire paddock was forced to comment on Rossi's training activity, this time requiring everybody to comment on their thoughts of returning so soon and how heroic or folly it may be.

Let's play a game:

Name the injury the rider had whilst racing and people try to guess the rider. I'll start:


Injury: broken back

(That seems rather severe right? Can you imagine the implications of re-injuring it?)

If you live in a glass house don't throw rocks.
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Iannone?
 
Its not admirable to come back before your injury is healed. It stupid and has more risk then reward. You're not prepared to race a sport again until you are healthy enough to fall. Doing it for a championship is short sighted. Doing when your not even in the hunt and have nothing to prove to your team makes no sense at all. Its called glory hunting.
 
MdubSTYLIE said:
Its not admirable to come back before your injury is healed. It stupid and has more risk then reward. You're not prepared to race a sport again until you are healthy enough to fall. Doing it for a championship is short sighted. Doing when your not even in the hunt and have nothing to prove to your team makes no sense at all. Its called glory hunting.
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I totally agree.
And I wanted to see Van Der Mark.
 
p4p1 said:
Still harder to play a game on a broken leg than riding a bike after it's been healing for 3 weeks.

A ....... exciting sport and great fun to play.
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Exactly, you do use leg strength to ride a bike, but it is nowhere near having a bum shoulder, wrist , arm , injury like Lorenzo did hours after breaking his collarbone.
 
Dr No said:
Oooo. A bit Keith Dunstan, are we?
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No actually, I was born in Melbourne, brought up on the sport, my father played 120 VFL firsts games, and I went to Assumption College for a year before my family moved to Sydney.

I can no longer tolerate the parochialism of the Melbourne based commentators and the capricious nature of the umpiring, views my father shares, and that the sport seems to have become heavily narrative based, similar to my problem with gp bike racing in recent times. I also now see it as something of a waste of athletic talent which could be involved in more international sports.
 

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