Slowest Ever 100 M in a World Competition

B_G said:
What was the story behind this?
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The other two competitors were both disqualified for false starts so he swam on his own.

He wasn't a professional swimmer, given that at the time, Equatorial Guinea had no public swimming pools. He only learned to swim 8 months before the Olympics IIRC, and this was his first time ever swimming in an Olympic sized pool.
 
Juninhoburger said:
The other two competitors were both disqualified for false starts so he swam on his own.

He wasn't a professional swimmer, given that at the time, Equatorial Guinea had no public swimming pools. He only learned to swim 8 months before the Olympics IIRC, and this was his first time ever swimming in an Olympic sized pool.
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This is what is amazing about the Olympics.

Did he qualify through to the next round then?!?
 
Juninhoburger said:
The other two competitors were both disqualified for false starts so he swam on his own.

He wasn't a professional swimmer, given that at the time, Equatorial Guinea had no public swimming pools. He only learned to swim 8 months before the Olympics IIRC, and this was his first time ever swimming in an Olympic sized pool.
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Eric the Eel as he was known. Eddie the Eagle. All these plucky no hopers get knick ames. I guess Nasra will be called Nasra the
Natterjack.
 
The first clip reminds me of my daughters first sports day at school. The call went out for the parents race, I put my hand up and ventured to the start line, to be joined by other fathers in the full kit. It was only 100m, but they nearly lapped me. My daughter was mortified and didnt let me show of my lack of sporting prowess ever again.
 
Capybara said:
I liked the way she sprinted for the line after clearing the last hurdle. A true competitor.
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I think to be fair she was taking easy over the hurdles to avoid injury, and the sprint was her "real speed"! She actually gained a point for the team by taking part, but sadly it wasn't enough to stop Belgium getting relegated in Division 2 though.

The Somalia thing was a bit embarrassing though.

In 1992 I appeared in the World Corporate Games (in Hockey) it was a tournament over two days, there wasn't any selection process or training, we met on Saturday morning ahead of the first game where we discovered one of our team was Sean Kerly's (olympic gold medalist) club team mate, who at that time were the best club side in the UK. Luckily I wasn't as far out of my depth as those two athletes,
 
HeineOtto said:
To be fair to the Belgian shot putter she was merely taking one for the team. Top effort really. Both Belgian hurdlers had got injured and for the teams point total to stand someone had to do the event. Most of the team were mid competition and she had finished so was willing to risk it.
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Clean run as well, I’d have just kicked them over
 
Canyoudigit said:
No obsession just a throw away comment which seems to have been taken entirely the wrong way,kind of enforces the view that you camt say anything without it getting analysed, I can see the 'fun police ' getting involved
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Everyone judges the words of other people. That’s how society works and always has. You’ve just judged all the responses that came back your way.

Those kind of responses can be a learning experience, Look at how your language is perceived by other people, at how you can better declare your points or if you maybe need to reassess your views with an open mind, or you can ignore them and convince yourself that your words were right. I know which is the more adult behaviour.
 
Juninhoburger said:
The other two competitors were both disqualified for false starts so he swam on his own.

He wasn't a professional swimmer, given that at the time, Equatorial Guinea had no public swimming pools. He only learned to swim 8 months before the Olympics IIRC, and this was his first time ever swimming in an Olympic sized pool.
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He did at least look like he had some athletic ability. Not in swimming clearly, but he wasn’t woefully unfit. I think he got a bit over excited and went too fast and ran out of steam, those last strikes were practically treading water 😂
 
BoroMart said:
He did at least look like he had some athletic ability. Not in swimming clearly, but he wasn’t woefully unfit. I think he got a bit over excited and went too fast and ran out of steam, those last strikes were practically treading water 😂
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Oh agreed, he's certainly physically fit. He said afterwards that he'd never actually swam 100m before and it was a lot further than he thought.

It's the slow pan out towards the end that gets me laughing, though. Poor bloke.
 
Canyoudigit said:
No obsession just a throw away comment which seems to have been taken entirely the wrong way,kind of enforces the view that you camt say anything without it getting analysed, I can see the 'fun police ' getting involved
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Funny how you repeated a "throwaway comment" three times.

I suggest that, as well as working out that woke couldn't possible be a pejorative word unless you're a nasty piece of work, you also need to understand what the idiom throwaway comment means
 
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