Wednesday 5 March 2008

Sportsnight

It always was on a Wednesday, I see no reason to change it. Know what I mean, 'Arry?

Latest achievers lifted from The BBC Sport website are:

The Great Britain women's recurve team struck gold at the Archery World Cup tournament in Dover.
Alison Williamson, Naomi Folkard and Charlotte Burgess added victory to the bronze medal they won at last month's World Championships in Leipzig.
In the men's recurve, British trio Alan Wills, Simon Terry and Larry Godfrey beat China 219-213 to claim the bronze.
It adds to their World Championship silver last month and the World Cup series gold in the Varese, Italy.
British compound archers Nicky Hunt and Liam Grimwood are into the semi-finals in Dover.
Hunt, 22, now faces Jamie Van Natta of the US after beating world record holder Gladys Willems. Her previous World Cup best was 13th in Korea.
Grimwood, 20, is the only archer not in the top four rankings after qualifying to make it to the semi-finals.
Next up for him is the current World Cup series overall leader Jorge Jimenez of El Salvador.


DAVID SMALL, BAREFOOT WATER SKIING
Was this the guy on Blue Peter? A triple world champion no less and we only hear of him because I’m watching Blue Peter. I mean, my kids are watching Blue Peter. Not me, of course. Really, why on earth would I be watching Blue Peter at my age? Actually I think it was an older lad whose name I missed, still David deserves a mention. There doesn't seem to be a mention on Zoe's blog, even though she bravely stuck with the training and skied barefoot for the required 15 seconds.
David is studying environmental architectural engineering at Nottingham University. He has just become the World Overall Barefoot Champion for the second time, as well as being the World Jump Barefoot Champion and the World Trick Barefoot Champion. And he has won sponsorship through the TASS (Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme) which will allow him access to top quality coaching and physiotherapy.

JUDO: CRAIG FALLON

Wolverhampton's Craig Fallon has continued his excellent form ahead of this year's Olympic Games by taking gold at the Vienna World Cup. Fallon won his pool and overcame young French star Dimitri Dragin in the semi-final. That win set up a rematch with Paischer, whom Fallon beat in the final of the 2005 World Championships in Egypt. Despite having the home crowd against him, Fallon repeated his victory of three years ago winning by waza-ari, to continue his gold-medal winning run. The former World and European champion has now won gold in the last four tournaments he has competed in and leads the European Olympic rankings for his weight category. The latest victory will prove particularly sweet after battling back from a shoulder injury sustained in January.
Fallon is now favourite to seal his place in the British team for Beijing.

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