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General Topics => Other Sports (Not Football) => Topic started by: Highlander on July 10, 2016, 17:17:08 PM
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And with a brilliant performance.
Well done Andy. :)
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It was a great match Too!
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Yes, good old Andy, very well done, you are a Scottish Star.
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Yes well played Andy your a British star,
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Louis Hamilton wins the British Grand Prix. Chris Froome retains the yellow jersey in the Tour de France and Andy Murray wins Wimbledon. Not a bad afternoon for British sport. I'll be shouting for the country with the world's second best national anthem tonight.
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Third best national anthem surely Colwyn. :o
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Heather Watson and partner won mixed doubles too! Great year for British tennis too. ;D
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Third best national anthem surely Colwyn. :o
Do you know which country invented playing the national anthem at sports matches? And in which sport? If you didn't know before you can probably guess now. And if you've answered the first two questions you might be able to have a shot at guessing the country against whom they were playing who didn't play an anthem but to whose opening ceremony they felt they should respond.
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Wales ? France ? Rugby Union ?
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Not forgetting Gordon Reid winning the Wimbledon wheelchair singles plus Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewitt winning the Wimbledon wheelchair doubles.
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Wales ? France ? Rugby Union ?
Wales - yes. Rugby - yes. France - no. You can get the last answer, H. The clue was in the question. A rugby-playing country that has an opening ceremony that is not a national anthem.
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Surely it must be New Zealand and the Haka
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Of course DOH !
Should have read the question.
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Yes well played Andy your a British star,
Not if Nichola has anything to do with it. She wants away from England.
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Spot on Cleo. In 1907 I think. I might post the story tomorrow iin case anyone is mildly interested. Now I am going to watch extra time,
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I'd be interested Colwyn, might give me a chance to show off to my Kiwi son-in-law! ;D ;)
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Yes well played Andy your a British star,
Not if Nichola has anything to do with it. She wants away from England.Yes well played Andy your a British star,
Not if Nichola has anything to do with it. She wants away from England.
He will be a Euro star then?,
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Well Chic done a great job winning this years title, not just the final. He has powered his way through this year, something we are not used to seeing from a British winner in most sports. And look I do not even like 'second chance' tennis, but I recognise a true champ when I see one.
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"Second chance" tennis ?
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"Second chance" tennis ?
Yes H 'second chance'. If I am playing, for example, football or even rugby and take a dead-ball kick of some description and I fail to score or convert, I do not get a second chance to take said kick because it went wrong, I am sure players and supporters alike would be howling with derision. Not so tenis with all those second and indeed third chance and more serves!!
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I'd be interested Colwyn, might give me a chance to show off to my Kiwi son-in-law! ;D ;)
I can't find my original source of the story but it appears in wikipedia (see below). In 1905 the NZ team toured the UK and in Cardiff, as elsewhere, they performed the haka at the start of the match. Wales had decided to reply and Welsh player Teddy Morgan led the crowd in singing Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau. Here it gets a bit muddled. That song was not officially the Welsh National Anthem; that was God Bless the Prince of Wales a thoroughly forgettable piece imposed on Wales by the English I suspect. But Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau had become established as the unofficial, popular national anthem - and it later became the official anthem. So its singing at the start of a game is recognized as the first time an anthem had been used to open a game. After that it caught on and spread to many other sports and all around the world.
So there's your story for your Kiwi in-law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hen_Wlad_Fy_Nhadau (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hen_Wlad_Fy_Nhadau)
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Thanks Colwyn, very interesting, he'll be mightily impressed with my knowledge! :D ;)