Granted I know nothing about the shot (until Millrose I had no idea shot puts weren't all the same size), but the ring at Reggie Lewis looked like crap on tv.
The guys threw crappy at it at Reebok Boston Games and then this week didn't throw too great either.
It seems to me it is a ring Nelson hates.
Is there any truth to this? I've never seen what looked to be a wooden ring before.
roboto wrote:
Either there is more to this story than meets the eye, or Cantwell really is if first-class a$$hole. And a lazy, cheap, irresponsible one at that. I would spend a grand and pack an extra 500 lbs of luggage to break a world record.
This is exactly what I thought. Either we're not getting the whole story or Cantwell is REALLY stupid.
Guppy wrote:
roboto wrote:Either there is more to this story than meets the eye, or Cantwell really is if first-class a$$hole. And a lazy, cheap, irresponsible one at that. I would spend a grand and pack an extra 500 lbs of luggage to break a world record.
This is exactly what I thought. Either we're not getting the whole story or Cantwell is REALLY stupid.
You people just don't get IT. Hoffa was driving to the meet; Cantwell was flying in from Missouri. Hoffa could easily have put the controversial 128 shot in his trunk along with his own. Doing someone a favor; Cantwell still has to throw the thing. How often do you see African marathon runners offering their competitors a drink....plenty of times...same thing here.
Certainly Cantwell wasn't deriving some unfair advantage.
You people need to learn a thing or two about SPORTSMANSHIP!
silly old fossil wrote:
You people need to learn a thing or two about SPORTSMANSHIP!
And you need to learn a thing about PROFESSIONALISM!
It isn't Hoffa's job to assure that Cantwell has the proper equipment to throw his best. Is it Hoffa's job to provide him with throwing shoes that fit? No, so it's absurd for him to be called out because Cantwell can't spend 80 bucks to purchase a shot that fits him.
At this stage of the game, Cantwell knows the rules and knows what he needs to bring with him... would it have been nice if Hoffa brought the shot, sure, but to demand it and expect it is completely childish and immature. In fact, you could say the person who needs to learn about sportsmanship is Cantwell.
Mtn Dew wrote:
Wow, you totally fell for the troll.
Perhaps, but he speaks the truth.
Usher wrote:
Perhaps, but he speaks the truth.
Eh, not so much.
wejo wrote:
Heard from a trustworthy source that Cantwell called Hoffa a "f****** hypocrite" at the post race controversy.
It's easy to take shots at someone who disappeared without a trace and hasn't been seen for decades. Was this press conference underground at Giants Stadium?
4real speaks the truth. Listen up!
why would hoffa drive to boston from georgia? do you know he drove? i find it hard to believe this is true and you have a homosexual crush on cantwell. hoffa flew to boston and cantwell is a wuss.
You figure someone as big and old as Cantwell should be grown up to know what business is. They guy was pampered too much ans expects things from people when he should be doing his own job. We all know people like that. Too often, they learn their lesson the hard way, and it looks like Cantwell just learned a lesson he should have learned from his parents while a child.
Mtn Dew wrote:
Usher wrote:Perhaps, but he speaks the truth.
Eh, not so much.
A bit of an exaggeration perhaps, but tell me anything is that rant that is a blatant falsehood.
I was a running phenom from the 9th grade. But even though I exceeded my parents DI college PRs while in high school, and I had to train hard, when I came home, I still had to take the trash out, mow the lawn, shovel snow, and take care of the livestock. When I ran well in college, people sent me gifts, freelance photographers gave me free 10MB digital picutues, writers sent me gold framed articles, I was interviewed on local TV, I even had track groupies follow me around. I ended without injury and with some regret, when I decided to go to professional school. Why, because my parents always reminded me to do my chores, to do my job, and I figured my future was my job and my responsibilty and no one else's.
Very childish of Cantwell. I don't recall Kenenisa Bekele throwing a temper tantrum when Zersenay Tadesse didn't bring an extra pair of racing shorts to Edinburgh last year.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
trailrunner64 wrote:
Plus, if I read the article correctly, Hoffa offered to LOAN Cantwell his own shot for his throws, but oh no, he wanted Hoffa to bring another shot, just for his exalted lone use. Dork.
You read it wrong. Hoffa offered him his, but that was a completely differnt size then what Cantwell wanted. (im not agreeing with Cantwell) just saying what you are suggesting is inaccurate and makes Cantwell to sound worse then he already did.
read between the one liners wrote:
It sounds like Cantwell might have helped out Hoffa in a previous situation, and Hoffa was not willing to return the favor.
exactly. If Hoffa had the shot, and didn't bring it solely to screw his competitor, then that is rather poor sportsmanship. It is, and none of you can admit to it because of certain affiliations and money. What else would you all like to sell your souls for?
maybe your unborn childrens souls too, because the money may be a little better? Admit what is right and what isn't. Not helping out a member of your team, at that level is astonishing. Hoffa is a f****** hypocrite, and those who support him are too.
"I want my competitor to lose so I go instead of him" yeah, great team mate.
there's a good quote about how to tell a man's honor and character, I believe by Abraham Lincoln, but I may be wrong:
"Do not better yourself, by bringing other men down"
Perhaps this should offer insight into the character of certain individuals.
I think Hoffa should have brought the shot as a gesture of good sportsmanship, but Cantwell showed no class by going off on him. Cantwell looks like the horse's a$$ in this race.
wejo wrote:
Heard from a trustworthy source that Cantwell called Hoffa a "f****** hypocrite" at the post race controversy.
Er, when did those two "race"????
Christian Cantwell sounds like the birth child of John Mccain and Hillary Clinton.