Athlete interviews... Re: [thechat] Olympics...

noah noah at tookish.net
Tue Feb 12 01:26:00 CST 2002


At 12:17 AM 12/02/2002, dave mclean wrote:
>I'll agree with you on Football and Basketball, but seriously, don't kid
>yourself, some hockey players are dumb as posts. Despite their abilities to
>play the game.  By that same token, some hockey players are just as smart as
>their play.

There definitely seems to be a correlation between how smart an athlete is
(in a team sport, anyway), and how successful he or she is, e.g., Wayne
Gretzky, Michael Jordan.

>ps. We were just robbed of a gold medal in figure skating pairs.  Damn
>russians. <shrug>

We were definitely robbed, but don't blame the Russians - blame the cabal
of international figure skating judges.

Cheers,
Noah




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