Help - any questions for a true British sporting legend tonight

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  1. Bluebird

    Bluebird Well-Known Member

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    ...guest speaker at our Winter League golf presentation is none other than Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards.

    I was going to ask him a question on plastering tbh - cos he obviously knows naff-all about ski-jumping :D

    Should be a laugh anyway.
     
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    I met him a few months ago. To be honest the guy wasnt that interesting. I was expecting a lot more and thought he would be a bit more excentric. He's just a regular guy, nice bloke though.
     
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    I would have thought he'd have loads of material to work with tbh.

    Ah well, the beer'll have to make him interesting :D
     
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    What about something to do with cooking

    he was on that great british menu the other week
     
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  5. Gue

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    ask him why he never went to SpecSavers

    :D I would love to hear his answer :D
     
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    I reckon him as a great sporting legend.

    When all others had sponsorship etc to allow them to travel and train, he did it all off his own back. True he was awful, but he decided he wanted to go, and by begging and borrowing he lived his dream and competed in the Olympics.
     
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    RE: What about something to do with cooking

    Can you remember when he was on 'Through the keyhole' years ago, his house was a right dump.
     
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    RE: I reckon him as a great sporting legend.

    I'm not knocking him at all mate - have you seen the size of those ski jumps :)S)

    At the end of the day he got to the Olympic Games - something most people could only dream about.
     
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    The good old british public - love a loser and hate winners. The obvious exception to this is Oddjob :D
     
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    I think its a shame they have implemented rules to stop his sort ever getting in again

    that lad who was in the swimming, the Jamaica bobsled team...all those were the true spirit of the Olympics..but now they have stopped it.

    It was qa bit like "X-Factor/BGT" in the early weeks when all the hopeless eccentrics would come, Yes we laugh at them but at least they had the balls to have a go.
     
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    He wasn't awful..

    He wasn't awful,in fact he was bloody good,no-one else in this country could do what he did,
    he just wasn't as good as the Olympic experts he was competing against,true sportsman for me..
     
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