I just learned that my colleague is the sister of 1992 Speedway World Champion Gary Havelock.I had no idea Speedway had an individual championship. He's still doing it. Their dad did it too.
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Tenuous connections to sports greatness (again)
* Former WBO and IBO cruiserweight world champion Carl Thompson is the godfather of my nephew
* I used to work with Terry Fenwick's son
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Tenuous connections to sports greatness (again)
More of a good connection to tenuous sporting greatness, but one of the guys on the same squash team as me has one of the fastest forehands according to England squash.
The claim is rendered even more tenuous by that list being i) out of date, and ii) not exactly comprehensive in the first place.Comment
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Tenuous connections to sports greatness (again)
Shortly after the 1982 FA Cup final I bought two le coq sportif t-shirts from QPR keeper Peter Hucker's dad. He had a sportswear shop in March. Don't bother looking for it now, it's become a Christian reading room.Comment
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Tenuous connections to sports greatness (again)
Reed John wrote:
That's awesome, Reed. Gary is a regular pundit on Sky Sports' coverage of speedway, and has proudly sported some of the worst shirts ever seen on television (and quite a few interesting haircuts, too).I just learned that my colleague is the sister of 1992 Speedway World Champion Gary Havelock.I had no idea Speedway had an individual championship. He's still doing it. Their dad did it too.
I'm also old enough to have seen his father Brian race in the 1970s.Comment
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