mrwotzup
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RE: BBC Sports Personality of the Year
AP McCoy is a very worthy winner, the first jockey to win it for 50+ years. Congratulations to Jessica Ennis also.
" At 36 AP Mccoy has ridden more than 3,300 winners — more than any other jump rider — and never failed to win the champion jockey’s title in his 15 seasons as a full professional.
He rides at two stones below his natural weight, spending 12 hours of his week sweating off a total of 42lb, and only eating four evening meals a week of nouvelle cuisine proportions.
He travels a mind-numbing 75,000 miles a year by car to ride at race meetings around the country and has fallen 700 times, breaking his ankle, back, leg, ribs, collarbones, shoulder blades and wrist."
Full story http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/racing/...mpion.html
(This post was last modified: 20-12-2010 10:40 by mrwotzup.)
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bombshell
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RE: BBC Sports Personality of the Year
(20-12-2010 11:23 )mogga Wrote: (20-12-2010 10:39 )mrwotzup Wrote: AP McCoy is a very worthy winner, the first jockey to win it for 50+ years. Congratulations to Jessica Ennis also.
" At 36 AP Mccoy has ridden more than 3,300 winners — more than any other jump rider — and never failed to win the champion jockey’s title in his 15 seasons as a full professional.
He rides at two stones below his natural weight, spending 12 hours of his week sweating off a total of 42lb, and only eating four evening meals a week of nouvelle cuisine proportions.
He travels a mind-numbing 75,000 miles a year by car to ride at race meetings around the country and has fallen 700 times, breaking his ankle, back, leg, ribs, collarbones, shoulder blades and wrist."
Full story http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/racing/...mpion.html
Thanks for backing me up with the stats, also bear in mind he has been doing this for 20+ years, incredible!
An Athlete may train hard, but how long is their shelf life? 10 years maybe? Then you can retire and do as you like.
To sacrafice what McCoy has for so long is nothing short of incredible, and just look at how many winners he has rode and how many champion jockey titles he has accumulated. Also you have to remember he can ride as many as 7 horses a day and up to 7 different venues and he may do this every day of the week!
Your making him sound like some sort of hero,he does all that because he loves being a Jockey,i dont and never have followed horse racing but good luck to him,im sure he is well rewarded.
Im sure he could retire if he wanted to but he chooses not to
Its so good to be insane
nobody asks you to explain
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TDK2008
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RE: BBC Sports Personality of the Year
(20-12-2010 10:39 )mrwotzup Wrote: AP McCoy is a very worthy winner, the first jockey to win it for 50+ years. Congratulations to Jessica Ennis also.
" At 36 AP Mccoy has ridden more than 3,300 winners — more than any other jump rider — and never failed to win the champion jockey’s title in his 15 seasons as a full professional.
He rides at two stones below his natural weight, spending 12 hours of his week sweating off a total of 42lb, and only eating four evening meals a week of nouvelle cuisine proportions.
He travels a mind-numbing 75,000 miles a year by car to ride at race meetings around the country and has fallen 700 times, breaking his ankle, back, leg, ribs, collarbones, shoulder blades and wrist."
Full story http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/racing/...mpion.html
That's amazing particularly the weight loss. Unreal.
After two years I've finally given myself an avatar and a signature as well! It's like a bus, you wait for one for ages and two come at once!
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20-12-2010 16:23 |
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