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Originally Posted by FanIn80
You're obviously not biased at all. 
Edit: Oh, and I just spent 10 minutes searching google to find another athlete who has played their sport on a torn ACL for 10 straight months before single-handedly winning a championship on one leg and then having season-ending surgery.
Since there aren't many sports that have 10 months seasons... well. Let's just say there's not much to report.
Luckily for you, though, there are lots of stories of heroic single-game efforts that ended in blowout loses for the guy with the injury... so I guess you win. |
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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
All due respect this is what bugs me - the suggestion that for some reason Tiger Woods was playing up the injury. That those grimaces were exaggerated or fake.
What proof do you have that the injury wasn't serious?
Again the confirmed is a torn ACL AND a double stress fracture of the tibia.
Are the doctors exaggerating their diagnosis?
I would challenge you to produce a list of athletes that played through a torn ACL and double stress fracture of the tibia.
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You know what you're right. I'll concede that Tiger wasn't faking. The media however basically acted like he had figured out a way to walk with two broken legs.
Second you guys are going about this the wrong way. I think what Tiger did is great, but the fact that he was able to do it makes it not a story. Any guy in any other sport couldn't do it because it would just be too hard. Their sports are way to physically demanding and it just isn't possible to play with a fractured tibia.
And to suggest that golf isn't an elite sport for the upper class is ludicrous. How is that a bias just because 99% of golfers were already upper class people before they started? Do you know how expensive it is to have a membership at a private golf club? Been to the Glenco (sp?) in calgary lately? To suggest that is bias is silly
, tell me the last time a golfer had to put up with conditions that NFL or NHL players have had to?
Are you gonna tell me that what Tiger did was any harder than guys playing 20 or so NFL games to win the Superbowl? Or warring it out every second night for 3 months like the NHL playoffs?
What Tiger did was great, and maybe no other golfer could do it, so maybe in comparison to his own sport it was fantastic, but compare it to any other sport and I just don't see how playing injured is a big deal, and the fact that his sport is easy enough physically compared to the other sports that he was able to rules him out.
BTW my you should know that 4 rolling eyes emoticons cannot be topped so I win this argument by default.