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latest Irish Olmpian - some story

  • 12-01-2012 1:38pm
    #1
    oldrunner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 173 ✭✭


    HTFU - how committed are you?

    "KIERAN BEHAN became the latest Irish sportsperson to earn a ticket to this summer’s Olympic Games after securing 34th position at the London Prepares gymnastics test event."

    "A non-cancerous tumour was discovered on his leg when he was 10, leaving him in a wheelchair. Behan recovered and 15 months later he was back in the gym only for a freak training accident to leave him with brain damage.
    Behan, then aged 12, slipped while working on the high bar causing the back of his head to land on the apparatus, which damaged his inner ear and caused him to black out with any sudden movement.
    It meant he had to relearn how to do simple things such as sitting and how to move his head and left him unable to train for three years. After a great deal of rehabilitation and support from his family and friends, Behan returned to the gym and gained several youth accolades, but a double injury blow ruled him out until the end of 2010 after he ruptured the anterior cruciate ligaments in both of his knees in separate incidents."


    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2012/0112/1224310141568.html


Comments

  • #2
    trihead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 442 ✭✭trihead


    Totally agree! Was going to post also - really inspiring story:)

    Well done Kieran!


  • #3
    TheRoadRunner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,983 ✭✭✭TheRoadRunner


    Great stuff, fair play to him but how is this running/tri related? ;)


  • #4
    gerard65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,612 ✭✭✭gerard65


    But what time can he run the marathon in?


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Things just didnt go for Kieran today but he is and and always will be a champion and no medal whatever its made of would suggest otherwise. His story is incredible and inspirational.

    EDIT: hi mods could you perhaps move this thread to a more suitable area


  • #6
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Oisin11178 wrote: »
    Brace yourself for the non athletics\running related Olympic threads. Seems like a lovely guy but the thread does not belong in this forum.

    Why not? There is no forum for the olympics and this is the most relevant forum for most of it. It'll be for a couple of weeks, so what?!

    Olympics are associated, by and large, with athletics, so this is going to be seen as the most relevant forum.

    Why did Gerard close his account? :eek:


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  • #7
    menoscemo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    Why not? There is no forum for the olympics and this is the most relevant forum for most olympic of it. It'll be for a couple of weeks, so what?!

    All the Olympics stuff is over here


  • #8
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    menoscemo wrote: »
    All the Olympics stuff is over here

    How is that more relevant than here? This forum has way more traffic than the sports forum and is going to attract people looking to post about the olympics long before the sports forum.

    Given who the last person to post on a thread over there is, I'd be staying here...


  • #9
    Oisin11178
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭Oisin11178


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    Oisin11178 wrote: »
    Brace yourself for the non athletics\running related Olympice threads. Seems like a lovely guy but the thread does not belong in this forum.

    Why not? There is no forum for the olympics and this is the most relevant forum for most of it. It'll be for a couple of weeks, so what?!

    Olympics are associated, by and large, with athletics, so this is going to be seen as the most relevant forum.

    Why did Gerard close his account? :eek:
    Because it has absolutely nothing to do with this forum maybe. Leave it by all means but its ridiculous in. Here


  • #10
    menoscemo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    How is that more relevant than here? This forum has way more traffic than the sports forum and is going to attract people looking to post about the olympics long before the sports forum.

    Fair enough, doesn't bother me. Just pointing out that the olympics is being discussed in depth over there.
    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    Given who the last person to post on a thread over there is, I'd be staying here...

    What have you got against 'Tickle_me_elmo' ?:p


  • #11
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    menoscemo wrote: »
    Fair enough, doesn't bother me. Just pointing out that the olympics is being discussed in depth over there.

    Hardly indepth, there's a handful of posters in each thread. I'd have thought this forum would be the first port of call for most looking for info on the olympics? Certainly would be mine.
    menoscemo wrote: »
    What have you got against 'Tickle_me_elmo' ?:p

    Ha, not him!


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  • #12
    tunney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    menoscemo wrote: »
    All the Olympics stuff is over here

    How is that more relevant than here? This forum has way more traffic than the sports forum and is going to attract people looking to post about the olympics long before the sports forum.

    Given who the last person to post on a thread over there is, I'd be staying here...

    Yeah but most of the people posting here are Irish.


  • #13
    Kurt Godel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,361 ✭✭✭Kurt Godel


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    Why not? There is no forum for the olympics and this is the most relevant forum for most of it. It'll be for a couple of weeks, so what?!

    Olympics are associated, by and large, with athletics, so this is going to be seen as the most relevant forum.

    Brilliant opening gala, a wonderful counterpart to the magnificent splendour of Bejing.

    Lochte was fantastic in the 400 medley, I expect him to be the swimming star of these games.


  • #14
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57,368 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Kurt Godel wrote: »
    Brilliant opening gala, a wonderful counterpart to the magnificent splendour of Bejing.

    Lochte was fantastic in the 400 medley, I expect him to be the swimming star of these games.

    Lochte let the U.S down last night. They had him on the anchor leg in the 4 x 100 free and he swam the slowest split time allowing the French to win gold.


  • #15
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57,368 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    I have a sneaky suspicion that Yohan Blake will be the name at the games. I am rooting for Bolt to win, and to win well. I don't want just a win, I want explosions. I just pray to god that none of the top 4 men get DQd with a false start. This race is the race of the games. The greatest ten seconds in sports history. Don't let it be destroyed by a DQ.


  • #16
    Pisco Sour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭Pisco Sour


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    Why not? There is no forum for the olympics and this is the most relevant forum for most of it. It'll be for a couple of weeks, so what?!

    Olympics are associated, by and large, with athletics, so this is going to be seen as the most relevant forum.

    Why did Gerard close his account? :eek:

    450+ posts on one of the threads on the sports forum and its only day 3. Dan Man's sports forum is the place to be for the next 2 weeks. Not here.


  • #17
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Pisco Sour wrote: »
    450+ posts on one of the threads on the sports forum and its only day 3. Dan Man's sports forum is the place to be for the next 2 weeks. Not here.

    OK. Off you go so.


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