Polo in the News

But nice we are getting press all the same.

If its in print its true though now isn't it?

And in case anyone was wondering about the story below the BFF one, it is about a new film by Zizek, a sort of celebrity postmodern marxist philosopher, who is doing a Q&A at Brixton Ritzy on Friday. I might go if anyone is interested.

The queue for a Zizek Q&A will be as mad as he is.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24298557

www.confused.com

beginners tourney recommended as the perfect first date..... https://www.doingsomething.co.uk/newsletter/173/

I was just reading an old interview with Jens Voight ( http://www.bicycles.net.au/2011/03/jens-voigt-interview-part-5-doping-and-the-uci/ ) and this caught my eye:

"*BNA: If you were the UCI President, would there be anything in cycling that you would change?

Voigt: Not an easy question because it is easy to blame somebody and it is easy to be unhappy with somebody, an organisation or even the world politics, but it’s a lot harder to have your own ideas and say I would do this and this.

The UCI also has cycle cross, mountain biking, indoor cycling and cycle polo. There are the juniors, seniors and ladies so there are a lot of fields to play on.*"

Seems like Jens reckons the UCI are into bike polo...

Well, he's referring to indoor polo, which is a long-established women's only sport. It's 2-on-2 and usually played in clubs for artistic cycling. It's described briefly in the '2er Radpolo' paragraph of the German Wikipedia article on bike polo:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radpolo

That sport is indeed sanctioned by officialdom.

I also just saw, in a link I followed, that in Germany there's a 5-on-5 league (see page 5 if you read German). I didn't know that before. It sounds as if this variant isn't played very often:

http://www.rad-net.de/html/verwaltung/reglements/best_radball-polo4_2011.pdf

Radball!

No, it's not Radball, it's a form of bike polo played with mallets.

Maybe I'll click the links then.

Not so hasty. They're all in German.

Too late now, I almost read a klein amount of it.

http://www.newstalk650.com/story/saskatoon-bike-polo-team-going-world-competition/138541

On a plane to Dubai last month, watched a 10 minute clip on the LII, mostly presented and narrated by Erin. It was on one of the sports shows on their in-flight entertainment.

Then in a bar in Cannes last week, they were playing a sports channel on their plasmas, and what seemed like a half hour segment on French Bike Polo came on. Marc Sich was talking a lot, but I couldn't hear (or understand) what he was saying.

#csb

Jet setting much?

#boastpost

http://www.wheelies.co.uk/blog/bike-polo-and-cycling-ball-not-your-average-bike-sports/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WHNL20131020

From the bottom of one of the many emails I get sent from cycling websites everyday.

I guess a lot of people confuse Ireland in the 1890s with Ireland in the 1980s. I blame Enya and Sean Bean.

UK Champs vid is on Singletrack Mid week movies...
http://singletrackworld.com/2013/10/midweek-mini-movies-172/

Starring best polo bike ever (and best mallet ever)...

Beagles photo bombing wheel.

bike curious

is that a thing?