Showing posts with label SPORT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SPORT. Show all posts

Monday, 23 August 2010

Behind the Hamptons Hedges

“It’s not all work and no play,” the Argentinean-born polo player Nic Roldan said as he stood, dripping wet, in the kitchen of the Water Mill house where he’s spending the summer. He had just finished a practice session in the polo field next door, then cooled off with a dip in the pool. Roldan, one of the best polo players on the planet, splits his time between Argentina, Palm Beach, and the Hamptons, where he has played Bridgehampton polo for the past six summers. This season he’s riding with Team Certified’s Gonzalo Garcia del Rio, Iñaki Laprida, and sponsor Michael Borrico—and rolling with an entourage of groupies. “Polo is great here in the Hamptons, but it’s really the surroundings that make it,” says Roldan, who played on Prince Harry’s team in the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic in New York earlier this summer. “I love to be outdoors, and between the spectacular beaches for surfing and the long bike rides out to Montauk, it just doesn’t get better than this.”

Nic Roldan at his Water Mill house.

Source by Vanity Fair

Friday, 26 February 2010

Australian presenters to be investigated for ‘anti-gay’ remarks


Two Australian sports commentators are facing an investigation by the New South Wales anti-discrimination board for their remarks about men’s figure skating.

Mike Molloy and Eddie McGuire made the remarks last week during the Winter Olympics men’s figure skating contest.

They joked about the sexual orientation of the contestants and made a quip about flamboyant US skater Johnny Weir being gay.

Australian gay rights activist Gary Burns made an official complaint about the remarks, while Channel Nine also received angry emails about the pair.

Molloy had said: “They don’t leave anything in the locker room these blokes do they?”

McGuire interrupted: “They don’t leave anything in the closet either do they?”

Molloy then joked that McGuire could get into trouble for the comment but then said described another skater’s costume as something even singer Prince would not wear.

Another competitor’s costume was described by McGuire as “a bit of a broke back” – a reference to the gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain.

Burns told AAP that the pair should apologise for their comments.

He said: “These hired goons were not down at the pub drinking flat beer with their mates, they were on national television being viewed by millions of Australians.

“On Mardi Gras eve the board’s decision to accept this complaint is a timely reminder to homophobes like McGuire and Molloy they won’t get away with vilifying homosexuals.”

Weir, the figure skater who was the butt of Molloy and McGuire’s jokes, has refused to comment on whether he is gay.

He was also a target of French commentators who suggested he should take a gender test. The Quebec Gay and Lesbian Council has demanded an apology from French channel RDS for the remarks, which it said were “outrageous” and “homophobic”.

Weir told a press conference this week that he believed in free speech and did not want to see the broadcasters punished.

But he added: “I want them to think before they speak. I want them to think about not only the person they’re talking about, but also other people like that person.

“What people as a majority need to do is think, and think about who they’re affecting. … I don’t want, 50 years from now, more boys and girls to go through this same thing.”

Source by Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk

Thursday, 25 February 2010

FA's anti-homophobia video

ohnny Weir speaks out at press conference


Johnny Weir speaks out at press conference
Uploaded by 1dobiedc. - News videos hot off the press.

Yesterday, U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir held a press conference to respond to the offensive comments that some Quebecois TV sportscasters made about him this week.

Source by 1dobiedc and Dennis Ayers

Saturday, 14 February 2009

Rá-Tim-Bum Senta Que Lá Vem A História

"14/02/2009

Los jugadores de la Premier League están preocupados por el contenido del libro que en breve publicará Danielle Lloyd, "el más revelador del fútbol" según Daily Star. Al parecer, en él la ex Miss Inglaterra y ex Miss Gran Bretaña dará cuenta de sus romances con afamados futbolistas de la liga inglesa.

Mala sombra. Tomás Guasch

Soriano: "Los jugadores del Valencia cobrarán en breve"

Preferirían en euros" Enfim toda vez que me perguntam sobre futebol por aqui, acho que isso a partir de agora vai ser muito mais facil para mim explicar sobre Futebol.