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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

It's hard to comprehend the skill and ability on show here.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QnLivdm65UI

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
It's hard to comprehend the skill and ability on show here.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QnLivdm65UI

No kidding, that was utterly amazing to witness.

(59 million views and 30,000 comments!!)

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Absolutely the WORST miss of all time!

https://x.com/CFC_Pukka/status/1942302594904301624

[Bill Ryan]

A remarkable thing happened in the world of sports yesterday: a sportsman deliberately declining to break a longstanding major world record when the chance was right there before him.



South African Wayne Mulder scored 367 not out against Zimbabwe, extremely easily too, and then came the lunch break. Everyone was expecting him to overhaul West Indian Brian Lara's legendary 400 not out, a near-impossible record which had stood for 21 years. (Individual cores of over 300 are extremely rare, and 400 is so stratospheric as to be miraculous.)

But Wayne Mulder was also the stand-in captain of his side, empowered to make every strategic decision. And at lunch he made the call to just stop right there and then.

The thousands of excited spectators could not believe it.

There was an overwhelming consensus from all the commentators, as real-time global interest quickly swelled around the cricketing world, that he would have broken Lara's epic record in another half an hour. But Mulder simply chose not to.

When interviewed later why on earth he had done that, with the greatest and most famous cricketing record almost within his grasp, Mulder explained that Brian Lara was such a very great player, one of the most celebrated in the history of cricket, that it was absolutely right that the record should stay with him and not be broken.

Just a few of the dozens of articles about this:

• Legend Lara should keep Test record - Mulder
• Mulder: 'Lara keeping that record is exactly the way it should be'
• South Africa’s Mulder declares on 367 and says legend Lara should keep his record

Kudos to another great sportsman. Yes, it's the way things should be.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

I honestly couldn't believe he did that. Records are there to be broken! No one to my knowledge in the history of the sport - any sport - has stood down on the verge of breaking a famous, long-standing record, to 'let the other guy keep it'.

Lara didn't when he broke Matthew Hayden's 380 from six months earlier, and Hayden didn't when he passed Garfield Sobers' 365 that had stood for over forty years. Every single test batsman would give his right arm to be in that position, to have the opportunity to make history and clinch top spot on the list! That Mulder didn't beggar's belief. It doesn't make sense! Unless...he did it for the sake of politics, i.e. 'diversity'. In other words, had Lara been white, would he have done the same? That's a desperately cynical thing to say, but that's the world we live in now. God, I don't know!

[Johnnycomelately]

Emiliano Sala, RIP. Top league footballer.

Found this today on a saved google search of “airplane crash, 1 day”. Turns out the article was published back in 2019, about 5 months after the crash.

I recall reading about it at the time. This story gives more than I knew from immediate reports, to round it out, tho the weather and pilot qualifications were already pegged.

I don’t know big league football very well, but I appreciate it. I welcome any tales of Mr. Sala, butter moves on vid, anything.

https://au.sports.yahoo.com/emiliano...204043828.html

Man arrested over tragic plane crash death of Emiliano Sala

Story by
Yahoo Sport Australia

AFP
Wed, 19 Jun 2019

A man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over the death of Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala, British police confirmed on Wednesday.

The forward, 28, died when a plane carrying him and pilot David Ibbotson came down in the Channel on January 21, just days after he had joined Cardiff City from Nantes.

"As a result of our enquiries we have today, Wednesday 19 June 2019, arrested a 64-year-old man from the North Yorkshire area on suspicion of manslaughter by an unlawful act," Detective Inspector Simon Huxter, of Dorset Police said in a statement.

"He is assisting with our enquiries and has been released from custody under investigation."

Huxter urged media and members of the public to not speculate over the identity of the arrested individual to avoid prejudicing the investigation.

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[Bluegreen]

Despite establishing herself already as one of the greatest shooters of all time, Caitlin Clark plays a team game that leaves defenders with their hands in the air.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=F9hftqGpViw

[grapevine]

Highest Dive Ever Without Injury

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=W-K1CGOldhU

Not strictly a dive, but just look at the height . . .

[Bill Ryan]

We might need a new thread devoted to Extreme Sports. (A serious suggestion. )

Here's a recent video (hard to believe, hard to watch, but 100% real) of extreme mountain biker Andreas Tonelli.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLXxHzdtTpf

Tragically, Andreas died on 15 July, after a 200 meter fall into a deep ravine. As someone who has occasionally flirted with extreme sports (but only peripherally, and nothing like this!), all I think I can say is that he ended his life doing what he loved, and must have been fully aware of the risks he exposed himself to almost every day.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Yikes, I'm sorry he died, even doing what he loved, but the risk of this activity is so high it seems to me foolhardy. Almost as if he had a death-wish. It's not like certain other danger-sports that have safety nets, parachutes, hooks, ropes, and harnesses. Sooner or later, his luck was sure to run out. He probably knew this, yet continued to push it.

When the price of error competing in such sports means quite probably losing your life, I feel we must ask a most serious question: at what point does 'extreme sport' become mental illness?

[grapevine]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3jCFIVBxq08

One to try at the pub maybe . . . At least it's not far to fall

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by grapevine (here)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3jCFIVBxq08

One to try at the pub maybe . . . At least it's not far to fall

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This is what that kind of under-the-table fun training can be useful for.

(Just a short clip, and a terrifying one (Dean Potter is climbing solo with no rope), but watch to the very end!!)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AFa1qpldmiM

[grapevine]

We all love the Underdog don't we?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8v9ZtrO72_M

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

This is what that kind of under-the-table fun training can be useful for.

(Just a short clip, and a terrifying one (Dean Potter is climbing solo with no rope), but watch to the very end!!)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AFa1qpldmiM

RIP Dean. 1972 - 2015.

About more than his end (clickbait title), this L=16:26 vid is a tasteful review of his life and exploits.

Dean Potter the last Terrifying Moments

History Unveiled Studio
78 subscribers

Dec 24, 2023 #yosemite #dean #darkhistory

Dean Potter : A life lived on the edge: Dean Potter's Freebase revolution. Two decades, four disciplines, and an unquenchable thirst for innovation - that was Dean Potter, a leader among Yosemite's climbing fraternity. From free solos that kissed the clouds to pioneering speed climbs and audacious BASE jumps, Dean pushed the boundaries of what was possible. But his ambition wasn't satisfied with singular acts of daring. He craved a tapestry of skills, a fusion of fearsome disciplines. Thus, Freebase was born - the unthinkable act of free soloing with a BASE parachute clinging to his back, a lifeline whispered against the abyss.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V7c6YSJrKVg

[grapevine]

Heavy Training, Strength & Focus - Red Bull Training Centre

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NMSzKFHpk74

Wonder how it compares to Marine training (for instance) or Navy Seals:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X81nOuDM4yM

[grapevine]

Stanglwurfen" or more generally "stick or mast climbing"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nh7wN1_0VyQ

A traditional sport or challenge often seen in Alpine regions like Austria and German. The landing looks potentially painful.

[grapevine]

Yiheng Wang (aged 11) Wins the Rubik’s Cube World Championships

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SY6ErHpo9wo

(2:34)
Unbelievable speed . . .

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by grapevine (here)
Unbelievable speed . . .

I did it just once, and it took me hours. That's because I devised a logical system, the kind of thing a robot could implement once it knew the arduous mathematical process.

But these kids aren't doing anything like that. They're not figuring anything out, or even thinking linear-logically at all. They're simply doing it as fast as their fingers can move. It's more akin to a savant instantly multiplying two 13-digit numbers without being able to explain how they do it.

Shakuntala Devi did exactly that in 28 seconds back in 1980: 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779 — picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College London. In less than 30 seconds, she correctly answered 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730.

[grapevine]

Nunchaku China Master

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hMCRojKCT7w

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Posted by grapevine (here)
Yiheng Wang (aged 11) Wins the Rubik’s Cube World Championships

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SY6ErHpo9wo

(2:34)
Unbelievable speed . . .

Incredible. Bordering on unbelievable.

I never solved that thing, then again, I never seriously tried, never bought the guidebook that told you all its secrets. I simply attempted to figure it out on my own, but never completed more than three sides before frustration got the better of me.

My Dad however... In that same year, at the height of the craze, 1981, he lost a whole summer to 'that wretched cube', as my mother called it. Even on holiday, he never left the armchair in that chalet on the Dorset coast. He sat there non-stop rattling on a Rubik's Cube. My Dad, in his forties at the time, an academic and very serious, down to earth man, was obsessed with it. It drove Mum crazy!

To this very day, mention a Rubik's cube in mother's presence, and she'll turn to my dad and scowl at him.