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[suexx]

;Dbeen long fan of strongman and visited this site for a while but now decided to post.
i watched the finals of british strongest man was great and just want to say well done to all 10 men who took part .
Why does it take so long for the BBC to show it on TV plus im sure they dont take so long with other sports they show.

sue

[Darren]

Hi Sue,

You're spot on. For some reason the BBC insist on treating strongman events as some kind of circus sideshow and only show the events as some kind of 'filler' between Neighbours and the News for a week in August!

Last year I took the family (wife & 2 young daughters) to the Hafan Y Mor park in North Wales to watch the BSM.

It was advertised as being filmed over 1 week at the park. When we arrived (after travelling from London) we were given a tatty, old, badly photocopied peice of paper with times and locations of events.

We then discovered that the competition was not being hosted at the park as previously advertised but at various points within a 20 mile radius (Caernarfon, Cricieth etc). So, the true fans of the sport, some who had travelled many miles (we drove 324 miles to get there!) had to travel about on a day to day basis once they got there.

The events then took place in open areas like car parks where anyone could just turn up and no one was guaranteed a view of the athletes.

And to top it all off we had a challet next to Dougie Edmunds (he's the tall referee with the black hat that you see on TV). THAT MAN CAN SNORE! I didn't sleep for a week!



If the people that run these events buck their ideas up and start to take the sport seriously, I think it would gain more true fans, more athletes and then maybe one day Britain would have a new world's strongest man.

The majority of people that watch the event on TV have no concept of the weight involved in the events or the years of dedicated training that goes into competing.

I'm sure they believe that it's just a competition for fat blokes who have just fallen out of a pub and have something to prove.

Sorry to go on but the situation really winds me up!

How about having the FA cup on Hackney marshes and then televising it 6 months later?

Take care Dazx