Dally wrote:
They also moan about the roads being unsafe when they undertake vehicles turning left at T- junctions! They are morons because the police had a bit of a purge on Clerkenwell Road a couple of months ago for a few days. It was so funnny to see so many of them go through red traffic lights and then get booked on the otherside! Even by the third day when most stopped at the lights the thicker ones were still getting caught.
Its always good fun to read of people having a go at road cyclists - tell me a story about a road cyclist behaving badly and I'll rebuff your claim with at least two of a motorist (including those who like to call themselves professional drivers) doing the same.
Anyone who has ever done a daily commute to work at 8am or 5pm will witness three or four potential collision incidents from bad motorists even on a short route, the only time you ever feel even slightly safe is when the inside two foot of road is painted red and signed as a cycle route, even then you're not safe from pedestrians or motorists who for whatever reason feel that the red bit is for them to use.
And yes, I drive a lot too.
As for the OP, if you disregard those who won their medals through technology and with the aid of hi-spec mechanics then you not only exclude cyclists but the Paralympic limbless runners (after all, they couldn't achieve the same on NHS artificial legs could they), and you may as well exclude all athletes for that matter as the training techniques that they use now owe far more to science than to their own endeavours.
So thats quite a ridiculous stance to take.
Sports Personality, probably Wiggins because he seems to have some, probably the two pairs of female rowers who won their own events on that wonderful mid-games Saturday as all four of them were totally used up at the end but estatic and emotionally spent and to me represented the best of olympian effort.
