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Athletics legend Sir Murray Halberg dies
New Zealand athletics legend Sir Murray Halberg has died aged 89.
Definitely one of our legends. Story doesn’t really explain how serious his teenage rugby injury was, one story I read was that they had to surgically remove a 2 litre blood clot in order for him to survive, that is close to half of his total blood supply. Would be interested to see how Arthur Lydiards training methods would go with todays athletes
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@Nevorian I hadn’t realised until I saw Dick Taylor talking about Halberg yesterday that NZ Athletics wouldn’t credential Lydiard into the Tokyo games so although he was the architect of the Golden Hour he never got to see it. Sad really.
Mrs M's son & partner are both classed as elite runners for competition and their view of Arthur Lydiard is simply that he was the most important and influential running coach ever.
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I also saw FM back in 2015. Richie and Gemma were in the corporate box behind us, and got a shout out from Stevie when Landslide was played.
They are a band that has had about 4 different eras depending on who was in the band. My favourite song (Oh Well) is from the Peter Green days.
Tusk came out for me during high school and we were all going mad for it, played it at lots of parties
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Pioneer tennis coach dies
Nick Bollettieri, the larger-than-life coach whose famed Florida tennis academy changed the face of the game has died at the age of 91.
One of the most influential coaches in my lifetime. He was a big part of building US dominance in the sport during the 90s
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Pioneer tennis coach dies
Nick Bollettieri, the larger-than-life coach whose famed Florida tennis academy changed the face of the game has died at the age of 91.
One of the most influential coaches in my lifetime. He was a big part of building US dominance in the sport during the 90s
I never would have guessed he was that old.
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Pioneer tennis coach dies
Nick Bollettieri, the larger-than-life coach whose famed Florida tennis academy changed the face of the game has died at the age of 91.
One of the most influential coaches in my lifetime. He was a big part of building US dominance in the sport during the 90s
I never would have guessed he was that old.
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I was slightly too young for the Clean first time around. They had a massive reputation amongst many american indie bands in the 90's. I only went back and listened to their stuff after hearing members of Pavement, Sonic Youth etc gush about how influential they were.. the reputation was deserved
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@Crucial That’s really sad news. I’m sure you remember how pervasive The Clean were in the early 80s. Boodle Boodle then Great Sounds Great were everywhere, especially on student radio, and set the template for the lo-fi Dunedin Sound. Beatnik and End of my Dream are still faves to this day.
Hamish was a good bloke to catch up with after a gig. As down to earth as you could wish for. I remember him suggesting once that my stereo was too good and I should blunt the needle a bit.
Go well.
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@Crucial That’s really sad news. I’m sure you remember how pervasive The Clean were in the early 80s. Boodle Boodle then Great Sounds Great were everywhere, especially on student radio, and set the template for the lo-fi Dunedin Sound. Beatnik and End of my Dream are still faves to this day.
Hamish was a good bloke to catch up with after a gig. As down to earth as you could wish for. I remember him suggesting once that my stereo was too good and I should blunt the needle a bit.
Go well.
Every now and then the music world needs to be pulled back to basics and The Clean were one of those bands that did just that in their period.
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