tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post7009897211127413230..comments2024-03-25T15:07:41.959+00:00Comments on Nigeness: Murray's BicepsNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-3686869435262778282008-07-01T17:03:00.000+01:002008-07-01T17:03:00.000+01:00Nige...spot on.I'd like a little good old fashione...Nige...spot on.<BR/><BR/>I'd like a little good old fashioned sporting behaviour. Somehow we've ended up with sportsmen a bit like our politicians. In fact If Gordon Brown was a sportsman I suspect he'd be exactly like Andy Murray. Grinding out a result at all costs and doing it in that joyless fashion. <BR/><BR/>Money does funny stuff to people....Richard Havershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309594787689405779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-17026014204336491332008-07-01T15:46:00.000+01:002008-07-01T15:46:00.000+01:00Exactly Nige, these people employ specialists incl...Exactly Nige, these people employ specialists including "sports psycologists" (nutter fixers in trainers), production line sports operatives, totally boring. My own particular sporting heroes are Giusto Gervasutti, quiet, unassuming, tremendous mountaineer. The other is Reinhard Messner, the greatest mountaineer of all time, his achievements make all other extreme sportsmen look like wallflowers, he has climbed all fourteen eight thousand meter peaks, many without oxygen and in Alpine style (fast, lightweight, small parties) The mindset required to achieve that is beyond comprehension. I have seen some really hard men in action, in particular some of the Poles who died in the 1987 K2 disaster, Messner is way beyond them all.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.com