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Martin Schenkel
11 May 04, 21:30
For those of you who follow and/or play sports, what are some of your favourite? Also, what are some of your favourite sports teams/individuals?
As some of you might predict, the number one sport for me is ice hockey. I grew up playing street hockey, and have followed the NHL extremely closely since I was 10. Being born and raised in Vancouver, the Vancouver Canucks are my favourite pro team. It's hard to describe what hockey means to many of us in Canada, but it is a great shame/embarrasment if we lose in international competition (Olympics, World Cup/Canada Cup, World Championships, etc.). I don't know if there are any other nations that have national social debates about a sport if they have dissapointing results (it happens here). I also play casual ice hockey, and in Canada we call this Beer league hockey :D
I also follow Formula One, and have hardly missed a race since 1996. Unfourtunately, because of the time difference the European races start at 0400-0500 in my time zone. While they also show these races on tape delay, I usually have to spend my sunday avoiding internet and tv sports updates so I don't accidentally find out the result (quite difficult actually) before the tape delay starts. When I first started watching F1, because I didn't know any better, I used to wake up at 0400 to watch the races live :nuts: My favourite teams (in order) are: Ferrari, Sauber, Jordan, and Renault/Benetton.
My next favourite, is the World Cup of Soccer. Since Canada rarely makes it to the world cup (except for the women's team), I usually end up cheering for Germany, because of my heritage.
I would definatly say soccer, what a suprise :D :nuts: I enjoy any soccer game at any time. As for a favorite team I like them all.;) :p
I also like American Football and my team is the Carolina Panthers.
I also like to watch Rugby but I rarely see it over here in the US
I don't know if I have a single favorite sport. It used to be golf, but I haven't really been into it much the last couple of years. I love baseball and am a big NY Yankees fan...being a former New Yorker and all. I'm also a big Dallas Cowboy Fan on the football side of things. Not sure how that happened.
To be honest though, my favorite sport to watch on TV is the Eco-Challenge adventure race. Now that's reality television.
Take care,
Brian
Colledge Football becuase they are still pumped full of for the glory of the school and havent figured out its just a job. I rarely watch the pros.
Most forms of Auto racing. Mainly NASCAR and endurance racing. I havent followed F1 in a few years. There is just too much disparity amongst the teams and too many team orders for my taste. And I can rember the getting up in the middle of the night thing to watch races. I guese that isnt as bad as watching all 24 hours of Le Mans.
Football (American!)!
:)
Goblin
(American) Football, Baseball and of course HOCKEY
You mean there are other sports besides Hockey ?? :D
Ivan Rapkinov
11 May 04, 23:34
Australian Rules Football
Carn the Dees!
edit: Martin I aslo follow F1, having made it to both the Sepang and Melbourne GPs this year. Fave Team is Williams, then BAR Honda, then Renault, though the money Toyota is throwing abot makes them exciting to watch in the future I think.
Be good to see Williams have a proper line up next year, with Webber and JV :D
Also in Football (soccer): in the Premier League I follow Arsenal, in the spanish League; Valencia, in the Bundesliga; Bayern Munich, and in the French League: St Etiennne, but they don;t do so well :D
ER_Chaser
11 May 04, 23:51
hehe... my favorite, ... you guys probably do not even know it ... though it is a british game :) ... Badminton is my favorite. It is even less known to the world that the World Champion of Badminton (for example, All England Open) wins only $500. :p (well, that may explain why the sport iself is so little known :D )
My favorite sport star? .. there are many of them... but all time, all sport and only pick one... oh man, that must be MICHEAL JORDAN! He is the KING! :)
Cheetah772
12 May 04, 00:01
The path to glory lies not in hockey but in American Football, more specifically in Green Bay Packers! Let Favre return in all glory to Super Bowl in 2005!
Dan
ice skating [speed-skating, or marathong games like the 11cities ride, 110km iirc that we have here].
and hockey is for pussies :devil: i prefer ice hockey or bandy :devil:
My favourite sports are basketball and soccer, though I ma not that good in both of them... (maybe I should practice a little more and not just answer to this forums :D )
@ Martin Schenkel:
On your other question: Here in Germany we have great depates everytime the German Soccer Team looses game, which is quite often. Well, that's really because some do still expect the team to be as good as in the 1960s, but that is definately no more the case...
I played a lot Badminton when I was student, a very nice sport
As many Europeans, I appreciate Football (not the "for little girl" american football :devil: , I like this kind of provocation :D)
I like a lot Rugby, especially when the French team win the great shelem and defeat England:p . I appeciate a lot the Australian team and more than all, the All Blacks (New Zealand)
The next World Championship will be played in France in 2007, hummmm
Not joking this time US people if you can see the charge of 120 Kg people against the holder of the ball it is incredible, because they wear no protection, no helmet, and the shock has the same intensity as the one of American football.:whlchr:
Der WanderPlaySportOnHisArmchair :D
viridomaros
12 May 04, 05:19
for my part i like ping-pong and chess ( ok may be it is not a sport for you)
i used to play badminton in a club some years ago but i had to stop because of chess, nice sport too.
i recently went to a karting race ( i was invited for free :D ) and i can say it is really fun, i highly recommend this to all the fan of car sport, try to go there for free because otherwise it is so expensive :cry:.
but definitely i stick with chess and pingpong, i'm surprised mr Er-Chaser didn't mention these sports as these are really perfect for lazy guys :rolleyes:
Deltapooh
12 May 04, 05:37
I love boxing. Its the only sport I pay any attention to and spend money on. :D
Australian footy of course,
GO THE MIGHTY SAINTS!!!!! <----------- League leaders!
Australian footy of course,
GO THE MIGHTY SAINTS!!!!! <----------- League leaders!
What no rugby!!!!!
Der WanderSoSurprised
What no rugby!!!!!
Der WanderSoSurprised
I watch a little Union if it is international, but the main game here is Aussie rules footy
I watch a little Union if it is international, but the main game here is Aussie rules footy
We saw a report about it on French TV, very strange one, but it seems very popular on your "small island" :D
Der wanderFindItFun
Do not care for sports on TV (a contradiction in terms). Whenever I get the time, I step our for a two-hour jogging in the countryside : no cell phone, no internet, no colleagues, no boss, no family, ni dios ni rey - silence and sweat.
Probably the best time to think out TOAW turns http://www.warfarehq.com/forums/images/smilies/tongue.gif...
Ivan Rapkinov
12 May 04, 10:59
GO THE MIGHTY SAINTS!!!!! <----------- League leaders!
Not for long!!! The Demons are gonna knock 'em off! :D
(from a proud Melbourne member ;) )
MonsterZero
12 May 04, 11:04
I like soaring (flying saiplanes) although costs don't allow me to do it as often as visiting the gym. Eventually I would like to participate in air races but that will require access to a personal aicraft. Eventually when I begin making a decent buck I may think of shared ownerships with a bunch of other pilots.
I'm also a skiing fanatic in winter.
As a rule, I like individual sports (running, flying, working out, skiing) much better than loud team contest.
http://home.comcast.net/~mark.pajak/pics/sail.jpg
Do not care for sports on TV (a contradiction in terms). Whenever I get the time, I step our for a two-hour jogging in the countryside : no cell phone, no internet, no colleagues, no boss, no family, ni dios ni rey - silence and sweat.
Probably the best time to think out TOAW turns http://www.warfarehq.com/forums/images/smilies/tongue.gif...
I do it when I took my dog for night walk 25 mn walking thinking looking at my marvelous Athena, thinking how to kill as mush as possible units in next turn, looking at my marvelous Athena, thinking how to kill as mush as possible units in next turn, looking at my marvelous Athena, thinking how to kill as mush as possible units in next turn, looking at my marvelous Athena, thinking how to kill as mush as possible units in next turn, looking at my marvelous Athena, thinking how to kill as mush as possible units in next turn, looking at my marvelous Athena, thinking how to kill as mush as possible units in next turn, looking at my marvelous Athena,
Oh I'm at home, I can open TOAW I got the solution
Der WanderNightWalker
Dicke Bertha
12 May 04, 12:29
I like football. I think professional sport is killing my interest though. Not many sports can allow amateurish gentlemen's behaviour anymore. Money (prize money, advertising, player salaries) is eliminating the good sport in sport, making it an industry just like movies or whatever. Just look at the US and Canadian teams' behaviour in the recent hockey world championships. They are thugs, not sportsmen. :mad:
I do it when I took my dog for night walk 25 mn walking thinking looking at my marvelous Athena, thinking how to kill as mush as possible units in next turn, looking at my marvelous Athena, thinking how to kill as mush as possible units in next turn, looking at my marvelous Athena, thinking how to kill as mush as possible units in next turn, looking at my marvelous Athena, thinking how to kill as mush as possible units in next turn, looking at my marvelous Athena, thinking how to kill as mush as possible units in next turn, looking at my marvelous Athena, thinking how to kill as mush as possible units in next turn, looking at my marvelous Athena,
Oh I'm at home, I can open TOAW I got the solution
Der WanderNightWalker
Well, that's general what I do when I go to school by train...
Well, that's general what I do when I go to school by train...
Ach S-bahn, quiet place to think in middle of crowd and bicycles
Der WanderOfnetDieTürBitte
CPangracs
12 May 04, 16:58
:DPocket Pool:D
Hockey comes in number one ! I'm Canadian after all, we are the crowned champions of the world of this sport, that says it all.
Motor racing and American football comes a close second though.
Motor Racing (especially F1):
I have been going to the Montreal F1 Grand Prix 7 times out of the last 10 years and I was there last year. This year I am not going though, I AM FED UP WITH MICHAEL SCHUMACHER. Don't make a mistake about it, I don't dispute his great talent and incredible record, he's one of the Greats, but I am just tired of always seeing the same guy winning over and over again. This is choking the sport, we need a change of the guard fast.
Football (american, not soccer):
Last year was the first year I seriously followed football (we in Canada are lucky enough to get to see all the games as in the US). What a sport ! Immensely strategic, and I am especially thrill about the concept of clock management and the tactics and decisions that go with it. Also, the NFL is one of the best-run professional leagues in the world, and the economic model of this league makes sense (contrary to baseball and hockey where franchises are slowly dying). Just too bad there is only 16 games in a year ! I don't really have a fav team, although the closest team to Montreal are the Patriots, so I am usually favorable to them, but I also like the 49ers. Of course, I do also watch Canadian football, a slightly different variant of the American version (3 downs instead of 4, so you get much more passes).
However, I don't play hockey, nor football and I don't race (well, I do get a few speeding tickets on a regular basis, but that is bad behavior).
I personally ski (downhill skiing), rollerblade, and cycle.
MonsterZero
12 May 04, 18:00
Anybody else besides me use the mini treadmill? Great sport too.
http://www.visit4info.com/watchad.cfm?id=14577
Football world cup is the only sport I´m least bit interested. It´s once in 4 years, so there´s a certain dignity in it. Finland is never going to get there, but so what.
Ach S-bahn, quiet place to think in middle of crowd and bicycles
Der WanderOfnetDieTürBitte
Well, generally I am on the move so early or late that I have always the time to think about it quitely. As I play SPMBT on relatively small maps, there are not such in TOAW ;) ,it is easy to memorize them and so I perplan my next moves detailed, expecting different enemy behaviour...
Martin Schenkel
14 May 04, 20:46
Just look at the US and Canadian teams' behaviour in the recent hockey world championships. They are thugs, not sportsmen. :mad:
I think you're just bitter the Swedes fell apart in the gold medal game against Canada :cheeky:
Martin Schenkel
14 May 04, 20:51
I personally ski (downhill skiing), rollerblade, and cycle.
Where do you like to ski in the east? I went to Mt. Tremblant once, but found it quite icy, relative to what I'm used to out west. I used to ski Whistler/Blackcomb many times a year. Unfourtunately, where I live now, the closest decent ski hill is a 2 days drive away :cry:
Where do you like to ski in the east? I went to Mt. Tremblant once, but found it quite icy, relative to what I'm used to out west. I used to ski Whistler/Blackcomb many times a year. Unfourtunately, where I live now, the closest decent ski hill is a 2 days drive away :cry:There are quite a few ski places in Quebec, but of course we are not talking about the Rockies here... Mt Tremblant and Mont Ste-Anne near Quebec City are the 2 largest mountains, but I only go at those 2 places once or twice every 2 years or so, there are a few hours drive away from Montreal. There is also a couple of good places on the US side in Vermont or New York, just 3 hours from Montreal such as Jay Peak. And they take the Canadian dollar at par with the US one, which is nice :)
Usually I will ski in smaller places: Bromont, Sutton and Orford in the Eastern Townships (southern side of the St.Lawrence River), and Mont Blanc, Morin Heights and Val St.Come in the Laurentians. They are quite small "mountains" though compared to any place in the Rockies.
Someday I plan to take a one or two week vacation at Whistler or some great place in the Rockies and get to enjoy real downhill skiing :D
Running for fitness and fishing for calm.
viridomaros
15 May 04, 07:27
i like fishing too, you are lucky to live in denmark Rasmus as it is the paradise for fishing in rivers, it is said that there is nearly no polution and that there are a lot of fish
what kind of fishing are you used to?
Actually I am not that keen a fisherman, but both my brothers are and I enjoy being on a fishingtrip with the two of them. Fishing in Denmark is trouts and some salmon in freshwater and cod and herring and others on the coasts and from boats. Concerning the lack of pollution, I got really sick :kotz: three weeks ago after swimming in an put-and-take lake (retrieving floats and hooks for my brothers).
Dicke Bertha
16 May 04, 08:58
I think you're just bitter the Swedes fell apart in the gold medal game against Canada :cheeky:
:whist: ;)
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