From:  "J.J." <LOL@GAYson.com>
Date:  24 Aug 2004 06:28:18 Hong Kong Time
Newsgroup:  news.alt119.net/rec.running
Subject:  

Re: how come greeks suck athletically?

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"Allotrios"  wrote in message
news:MPG.1b93c78e4c8fce7898af06@news.demon.co.uk...
> In article , J.J.
> LOL@GAYson.com stated:
> >
> > "Zico"  wrote in message news:412950ab@news.alphalink.com.au...
> > > To say an Athlete won because another made a mistake is a NON SENSE
> > > statement.
> > >
> > > If you are GOOD mistakes should not happen!
> > >
> >
> > Sorry but I find your statement a little nonsense.
> >
> > All competitors hope that they themselves will not make any mistakes and
> > pray that the others will.
>
> In a sport like synchronized diving, mistakes are what your whole
> training is trying to minimize.

Yes exactly,  try to minimize. You cannot eliminate mistakes completely.

>To come here and say that some guys
> were better but did more mistakes IS none sense IMHO. I think
> that's what Zico meant.

I know what he meant. That's not what I find to be a nonsense. Maybe I
didn't make myself clear.


>If those athletes were so much better, then
> they wouldn't have done more mistakes.

Were they not supposed to be the favourites in that event? But what ever,
anyone can make a mistake. Even the *better* ones.


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