Sam Winton

Triathlete | A7579428 | 1mi 5.54 | 5k 20.16 | 10k 43.16 | 10mi 1:10.17 | HM 1:37.46 | M 3:34.07

[Sam Winton @Samwinton99]

#INC5_2 got off to a slow start on day 1 with different coalitions restating their longstanding and diametrically opposed viewpoints. See my Day 1 update here: https://t.co/0jaKWjM9h6

[Sam Winton @Samwinton99]

@RyanDilks1 There's 72 EFL clubs and 20 PL clubs. Hardly surprising you see more EFL flags

[Sam Winton @Samwinton99]

@daniellloyd1 Tadej on the Tormalet, Froome on the Finestre in 2018, countless other remarkable days. If I choose not to enjoy those because they may have doped, and then I'm proved right, the doper will have stolen from me twice and I won't allow that. If I was wrong I've stolen from myself

[Sam Winton @Samwinton99]

@daniellloyd1 I hate doping. If a rider I supported was found to have doped I'd be gutted. However, I love watching the sport. If you assume people aren't clean you loose twice, once when you don't enjoy it and again when it's proved. I'd rather enjoy the sport live and be disappointed after

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@robci1983 @_NelsonMandala @categorycafe @UnoXteam Of course they will. No professional athlete is going voluntarily withdraw. They wouldn't have got to the level they have if they weren't prepared to put their body through hell. That's why a different solution which doesn't rely on roadside tests is needed

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@_NelsonMandala @categorycafe @UnoXteam Riders who have a significant probability of concussion simply should not be riding on that day and that needs to be made possible without them being kicked out of the race. The purists will hate the idea but, frankly, I care more about safety than what they think

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@jamesmahha @ElliotBlackwel4 @Towno10 I agree about piling in. Before making judgements we should always hear accounts of what has happened.

IMO a false claim of discrimination is one of the worst things you can do on a football field. Its really important to protect those claims for genuine incidents to be believed

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@ElliotBlackwel4 @jamesmahha @Towno10 Why does he have a right to get the game stopped? His team bottled a 2 goal lead. I hate the goal being ruled out but under the VAR rules it is right. It was never a penalty for Salah. He had zero legitimate reason for complaint with the ref

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@BowTiedCrow You say this with zero evidence to back up this claim beyond a belief that American people are somehow genetically superior to the rest of the world

[Sam Winton @Samwinton99]

@Kyle_Molock22 Same to you if you're in England. I come at this from a perspective of wanting to see kids doing sport and being active. Elite performance is secondary to the huge mental and physical health benefits that teams sports bring. Those benefits persist decades into adult life

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@Hoopsatduke To be clear you should not have to pay that money for sports participation but, in a world where you do invest in your kids it, the fact that many parents do not value team sports as highly as other things with lower efficacy is really interesting

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@Hoopsatduke Ignoring the obscene money here, I'm fascinated by the last sentence. Kids team sports (when done properly) is known to be one of the most beneficial things for their physical and mental health leading to direct benefits decades into adulthood. It's a fantastic investment

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@Coach_Campbell @SethDavisHoops Yes but you are no longer dominant in the same way you were before. Other countries are catching up. I never said you aren't still one of the best in the world

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@wife_geist Your critique of the cliff edge in European academies is extremely valid. There is work happening to get academies to set up kids for when they leave but it is happening far too slowly. The American system ignores far too many talented but disadvantages kids

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@Bigpod98 @OlisCory @coachwwest Definitely team sports and individual sports have to be looked at differently. Culture is a huge part of team sport success though. Referring back to the US, is football culture is weak so despite a large population, they are not successful compared to many smaller nations

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@Bigpod98 @OlisCory @coachwwest Tbh the whole we have x number of medals so we are great is silly anyway 😂 Every Olympic medal is the result of years of dedication and sacrifice. Investment and quantity of participants helps but every medal has to be won by a talented individual and their team

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@Bigpod98 @OlisCory @coachwwest This is true. It's even more skewed for countries like Grenada who rank 11th purely on the basis of one man (Kirani James in the 400m).

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@Realnamechris @unikunka In the rest of the world, youth development is funded by professional clubs, they do that because investing in kids develops players for their first teams. Everyone wins

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@christinelu Accessibility is a problem but the biggest problem is when kids sports participation is done for financial gain (eg. College scholarships). All research shows that this has a negative impact on physical and mental health as well as ultimate elite level performance

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@AlexiLalas The professional teams should fund it, as professional teams in the rest of the world do