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Can anybody tell me what "ELITE" sports are?

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  • 19-10-2020 8:14pm
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    ShatterAlan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭


    Since they are allowed to proceed during covid restrictions?


    What exactly are "elite" sports?


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    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,882 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    Imo elite sports would be ones where the players can isolate before and after in pods with rapid testing and money thrown at running the events and training safely


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    Pacifico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,115 ✭✭✭Pacifico


    Foxy boxing


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    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    not GAA


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    SeaFields
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    Junior B


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    Jaysus Christ.
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    FIFA 2020. PlayStation.


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    Ekerot
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    One were this is money to be made.


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    punisher5112
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    6 nations
    Soccer etc


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    AllForIt
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    Synchronised swimming


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    Ronaldinho
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭Ronaldinho


    398022.jpg?itok=QuOKshfc


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    [Deleted User]
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    Ekerot wrote: »
    One were this is money to be made.

    ... but only for those already rolling in it.

    Call me cynical.


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    Jaysus Christ.
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭Jaysus Christ.


    Women’s South American beach volleyball.


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    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Matt Damon


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    con747
    Registered Users Posts: 5,881 ✭✭✭con747


    Whoever is lobbying the most.

    Don't expect anything from life, just be grateful to be alive.



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    enricoh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,841 ✭✭✭enricoh


    Jaysus Christ. wrote: »
    Women’s South American beach volleyball.

    You could have posted a photo or two in fairness jaysus!


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    [Deleted User]
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    Elite sports are ones that justify putting the sports news before the main news at 1 o'clock or whatever in the eyes of their followers. How the sport is hurt more than anything. Elite sports are played on holy ground.


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    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    John Delaney was one of the elite


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    StevenToast
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    Pacifico wrote: »
    Foxy boxing

    And such and such

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



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    jimwallace197
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    No doubt GAA, load of ****e, wouldnt know elite if it hit them in the face but I guess they have to appease the boggers.


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    bangkok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,638 ✭✭✭✭bangkok


    Darts down in the local


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    ShatterAlan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    frozenfrozen wrote: »
    Imo elite sports would be ones where the players can isolate before and after in pods with rapid testing and money thrown at running the events and training safely




    Good call and a clap for that man.


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    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    ShatterAlan wrote: »
    Good call and a clap for that man.

    Give that lad a line of coke.


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    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,802 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    I'd cynically hazard a guess at those sports in which great big wodges of cash are riding on.... not necessarily for the participants


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    moonage
    Registered Users Posts: 795 ✭✭✭moonage


    Polo is the only one I can think of.

    00-promo-image-british-royals-sports.jpg


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    ILoveYourVibes
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Matt Damon
    damo


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    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    ShatterAlan wrote: »
    Since they are allowed to proceed during covid restrictions?


    What exactly are "elite" sports?
    Golf of course politicians play it

    ones with enough money to bribe FF


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    Badly Drunk Boy
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    jimwallace197 wrote: »
    No doubt GAA, load of ****e, wouldnt know elite if it hit them in the face but I guess they have to appease the boggers.
    Yet somehow, they managed to have a better stadium than their soccer counterparts. And without having to share.


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    galway_cowboy
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    I guess the government think the people need games and entertainment.

    To be honest though, I'm not sure what it is but I think I'm done with sports. I was a big Gaelic, Hurling and Premier League fan. Have a few quid on a weekend accumulator often. But since March, I just could not give a toss. I tried to sit down to watch a few games but just couldn't.


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    Pkiernan
    Registered Users Posts: 4,315 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    Darts


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    [Deleted User]
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    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    Yet somehow, they managed to have a better stadium than their soccer counterparts. And without having to share.

    Consecrated grounds. Silent now but the games are still playable by the schools as permitted by the current restrictions


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    gourcuff
    Registered Users Posts: 295 ✭✭gourcuff


    isn't all this bandwagoning just another excuse for insecure egg chasers and soccer heads to bad mouth an association they view as doing better than them?


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