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Concrete Jumble...

".... nothing in order."

Harsh?  Fair?  Or just brilliant?  Highly imaginative and damn well put together.  Make us want to pay the place a visit.

... almost.

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Categories Music Tags Art culture Humour

By Juan on 21/7/10

Piece By Piece

"... we can achieve our goals..."

Olympic Swimmer John Naber is a living breathing example of this truth.

Back in the 70s, Naber had missed out on medals at the 1972 Munich Olympics - he had found himself the forgotten man of the US team as he performed a support role in getting the US relay teams through to the finals, only for the great Mark Spitz to step in and power the team to glory. Naber finished the games promising himself if he was to return to the Olympics it would be as a gold medal winner.

He did his homework and set his sights on winning gold in the 100m backstroke at the next Games in Montreal and in doing so calculated that, based on the progression of times, he would need to swim the distance in 55.5seconds – a four full seconds faster than his best. Four seconds is a lot in swimming, enough to leave a simmer disillusioned, but not Naber.

He broke it down and then he trained. He trained for ten months a year, so he would only need to improve by one tenth of a second over the space of a month. There are roughly thirty days in a month, so he would only need to improve by one three-hundredths of a second every day. He trained for four hours every day, so he only needed to improve by one twelve-hundredth of a second every hour.

Naber won his gold – in 55.49sec. If you want it, you can work out a way to achieve it. A truly great athlete, but as the video below shows he was no match for Stains' best!...

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Categories Sport Tags Endeavour Humour

By Juan on 9/7/10