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Nationalists won a majority of the NI seats....

Frankly I think unification is inevitable....and relatively soon....

The Troubles were awful in England in the mid 90s...you couldn't find a...

Polar Day! A toast to Amundsen and his men.... 108 years ago...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELyq__GUYAAKDUu?format=jpg&name=large

Meanwhile....Roger Robinson chimes in....

Powerfully built and 5-foot-10, Snell as a teenager was an outstanding all-around talent. He was a national junior quarter finalist in tennis and showed...

Anyways...

I just remembered I saw Snell run once .....at Millrose....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YysHj9iz2M&app=desktop

You can't see anything....it's just a big crowd...I got bored after 30 minutes....

One in Eugene last year was enough...its not that exciting...

Meanwhile....

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELxGzOCUYAIxAEg?format=jpg&name=large

At the risk of responding to someone I make a point not to....

"Overall a rather good night for UK pollsters. Tory margin was a little bit on the high side of the range but really quite close to...

Anyways I don't think it is that relevant to our story....tracks are expensive....shoes are not...

"It was like boxer Sonny Liston’s first-round knockout of Floyd Patterson — so decisive that it rather spoiled the TV spectacle. In living rooms around the UK, people turned to alcohol."

Meanwhile ..in the Weekend FT..

"How did you go bankrupt, asked a character in an Ernest Hemingway novel. The reply: “Gradually and then suddenly.”

And so it was for Labour leader Jeremy...

Sad!

Thread from 2003 on Snell...

https://trackandfieldnews.com/discussion/showthread.php?97217-Peter-Snell/page2

That was mentioned in an interview in TandFnews at the time...

Springy tracks, especially indoors, have been around for awhile and few got all bent out of shape....

They don't have wheels or springs...

Exactly....

The wheel thing is pretty silly....

Interesting and thorough article....though long...on Labour and Corbyn in the New York Review today....

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/12/12/the-strange-death-of-social-democratic-england/

Estadio Hernando Siles, in the Bolivian capital of La Paz, is so high above sea-level that it impacts not only the fans but the footballers too. Named after a Bolivian politician, it’s one of the...

I remember those....Snell was pretty awesome....

In the 90s I went on a run with Quax and Shorter....Quax was definitely in awe of Snell...especially his WR 800 on a grass track....
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From those photos they look like normal Nike cross country shoes....

Atticus....the man of the hour! Right on....

As to the cross country shoes...doesn't Nike make a fancy spike now?

Not sure if the question is serious....However...My niece ran NXN a few years ago....and Nike gives the athletes lots of stuff...so I presume Nike....

Also Nike really dominates in the cross...

That sucks.....he was only 81.... with Quax and now Snell....

Anyways what a marvel to watch at his peak....

Meanwhile....in the Times today....

A new analysis by The New York Times, an update of the one conducted last summer, suggests that the advantage these shoes bestow is real — and larger than...

The Twitter link is dated May 3....but he only ran 10.69 that day...so someone was making up stuff.

https://mobile.twitter.com/fhsaa/status/1124325986793852928?lang=en