Falklands’ badminton team off to the Brazilian International Cup
A team of four are currently emerged in a training camp preparing for competition in Sao Paulo next week.
The XXVII Brazil International Badminton Cup 2012 will be played in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from 27th to 30th September 2012. The Falkland Islands only badminton club, Stanley Badminton Club, is sending 4 players to compete. England Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist, Rebecca Pantaney, will team up with Falkland Islanders Douglas Clark, Michael Brownlee and Laura Minto.
Pantaney has been the Falkland Islands team coach since 2007 and during this time has travelled to the Falklands on 6 occasions to coach the team, the club’s members and school children. She has also attended three NatWest Island Games, a Commonwealth Games and a Youth Commonwealth Games as Falklands Coach.
As part of their tournament preparations the team are currently training in Cheltenham, England. Clark explained that the team need to have a training camp before a tournament as it’s “an essential tool used to improve game sharpness. We’re not using it as a fitness camp, it’s all about playing badminton and helping us prepare as a team. There are so few players back home that it’s important to play different players.”
This will be the first time a contingent of players from the Falklands has competed in the Brazil International Badminton Cup and the team are looking forward to a completely new experience and challenge. Arguably the Falkland Islands most successful badminton player, Douglas Clark explained how “it’s a great opportunity for Falkland’s badminton players to pioneer playing in more international tournaments and to represent the Falklands internationally. We feel we are paving the way for the next generation of Falkland Islands badminton players.”
The competition will begin for Clark and Brownlee in the Men’s Singles Qualification Rounds on 26th September. The main draw matches will being on 27th September and conclude with the finals on 30th September. The Falklands will compete in all five disciplines: Men’s and Ladies Singles, Men’s and Ladies Doubles and Mixed Doubles.
Updates will be available via MercoPress, Penguin News, Falkland Islands Radio Station and Stanley Badminton Club’s Facebook page (facebook.com/Stanley.Badminton.Club) and Twitter page (@FalklandBadders).
By Roxanne King – SeAledPR - Stanley
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Badminton is a game where you place a Malvinista over your knee and spank his tiny pink bottom until he squeals “I love the Falklands” like a little piggy. It's a popular game outside of Argentina.
why not just wish them good will,
they deserve that.
I just saw your post on another thread. I wasn't having a go at you mate. Dumb and Dumber is what I call Think and Dover.
thats ok,
i never belived it anyway,
but you are correct,
dumb and dumber, need more rubber.lol.
thanks.
Badminton is a game were “Luck” doesn't help.......
Ms.Rebecca Pantaney may win some double sets and even some single matches at the the XXVII Brazil International Badminton Cup 2012....
The other three are placed waaaay over their league.....
I guess MLA Sawle will get yet another free trip to the tropes?
Anyhow my fellow Badminton players...
Keep the spirit up...
We will all be cheering you on
The Brazilian will be the least of their worries....
The Chinese, the Indonesians, the Koreans or even the odd Dane on the contrary......
Nobody ever got wiped off the face of a map. A map doesn't have a face.
Near native speaker standard, but not near enough.
Another small step towards independence? If we tolerate this then what next will these uppity ungrateful colonists do?
“Another small step towards independence? If we tolerate this then what next will these uppity ungrateful colonists do?”
What's to be done eh? Send in a gunboat perhaps?
Hope they do.
Others might see then, how immature the RGs are!
Good luck FI Team.♥
“What's to be done eh? Send in a gunboat perhaps?”
Kelper humor at its (Westis)best.
Luuuuv it....
Maybe you'll appreciate these examples of Kelper humour Think:
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Love it Westy!
Still giggling.
that the turnip supervisor keeps its members in order,
18, do as your told and grow up,
its sport, not a bloody firing range silly boy,
Funny as hell! I think a few people wouldn't mind that toilet paper as a christmas gift.
www.royalnavy.mod.uk/News-and-Events/Latest-News/2012/September/17/120917-Fire-in-the-hole
HMS Clyde - Protecting “our” Nation's Interests indeed! Not to mention HMS Dauntless.
This would be disastrous for World Cup/Olympics.
It would show that South American sport is 'politicised', with all that follows from that. The Moscow Games shows what can happen.
I think if Brasil did refuse the FI team it would send all the wrong messages to those they are currently trying to get closer to, and that means NO LatAm countries.
Chuckle chuckle.
and you keep losing.lol.
Falkland Islands please!!!! There is no such place as Las Malvinas
19 Think
It's not even about participating, it's about the ruthless and total crushing of your opponents and seeing their public humiliation....... What's all this rubbish about “sport” anyway? :-)
Well well good to see you've finally plucked up the courage to come back again Fernando...knew it was you you arsehole :) and congratulations on finally admitting your a Yank from Utah.....
Perhaps is we started calling argentina by another name,
He may understand,
Falklands, it’s that simple, as you are,
Perhaps if and when they find ATLANTIS, malvinas will be there also ,lolol.
as in Brazil and Argentina and SAm we dont speak english, it shall be called Malvinas
so whats above then
scotts mist .lol.
When you come to South America, we stamp Malvinas
Rules are rules everywhere, and are to respet them
so you talk rubbish,
but you will achieve nothing,
and get nothing, but people contempt.
If one flew into Rosario they may get “Malvinas” stamped in their passport but I doubt it. I can't be arsed to get my passport out of the drawer and have a look but I don't recall the airport name being included on the stamp. Just the city and “Argentina”.
Why have you started saying “Flickinds”? What's the signifance of you saying that you dumb bastard?
Like Westisbest said. Anyone and everyone who enters the islands we're talking about, be it by air or sea, gets “Falkland Islands” stamped in their passport. No exceptions. My friends in the Immigration Department love their stamps. I always plead with them not to stamp my passports because they never last their life before they are too full. They always refuse my request. I also know that they make sure Argentine passports get the heaviest, juiciest ink stamp they can muster up smack bang in the centre of a blank page. It's our way of saying “I love you”.
when you come to SAm, we call them Malvinas.
Call them whatever you want. Everyone needs a fantasy. Visit them and you get a stamp that says “Falkland Islands”. Whenever I've visited Argentina I've never had the word “Malvinas” stamped, scribbled or written on my passport or on any landing card or travel document. So I'm not sure WTF you're talking about.
Here are two urban myths that I have tested several times and found never to be the case. At least not for me.
Urban myth #1. If you enter Argentina directly from the Falklands, Immigration won't stamp your passport because you haven't actually made an international flight.
I've done it twice and both times my passport got stamped and I was not subjected to any extraordinary treatment. I thought the name Falkland Islands may be crossed out on my landing card and replaced with Malvinas but it wasn't on either occasion.
Urban myth #2. If you call from a pay phone in Argentina to the Falkland Islands you only pay the national rate, not the international rate.
I've tried that several times from different cities and it's also simply not true.
Try something decent Malen. Get somebody with some clout on here for a change. We're getting bored.
Your problem is that you're fanatical about it but you're not competent to do anything constructive. CFK knows what she's doing. She knows you'll never get your hands on the islands. She also knows that every time she goes off on one about it her poor voters all forget about the price of dulce de leche for a few days. It's like throwing a few scraps of bread into a sea of hundreds of sparrows. They all think they're about to get fed.
Related perhaps,
Or does CFK also live in this fantasy,
With her trusted lieutenants,
Still,
You can drag a horse to water,
But ya canny force him to drink,
Especially when it turns out to be a mirage .lol.
Are you really that stupid or do you think that your fantasies can become a reality just by reciting a name? Grow the fuck up!! I have entered British River Plate many times yet they keep stamping my passport, “Argentina”, never anything about Malvinas. You can't just keep on making up names to suit your skewed world view, last time I checked the Union Jack was flying proudly just off your coast, its been there for a long time so you might as well get used to it. Hope things are well in British River Plate, or as you call it in South America, Argentina!
“Anyhow my fellow Badminton players...
Keep the spirit up...”
Nice one Think.
They are there to compete and like their brothers in UK they will not be distraught if they loose as they will be adult enough to accept it.
But FIG is another matter= much better than Argentine government (25% of GDP spent by FIG on free education), fishing zone=2nd best run in the world.
Yeah why wouldn't they, Arg Sunshine?
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