Hilary Evans @OlympicStatman Twitter profile

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Hilary Evans

8 years

#Olympics With his 12th individual Olympic title Michael Phelps equal the all time Olympic record set by Leonidas of Rhodes in 152 BC

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

7 years

There's never been a terrorist attack at the national sheepdog trials. Fans all have border collies. Draw your own conclusions

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@OlympicStatman

8 months

@ChrisChavez @ClayParker23 Newsflash - the world's fastest sprinter is better at sprinting than all the other sprinters in the world.😉

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Hilary Evans

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8 years

#Olympics Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh are the first married couple to win gold for GBR since sailors Cyril and Dorothy Wright in 1920

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4 years

@neilhimself The Kindly Ones?

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5 months

I see "Boycott Eurovision" is trending here. This is a terrible idea. He'd sing far too slowly then run out his backing band.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

3 years

#Olympics One last thing. Please let the marathons and walks finish in the Olympic stadium in Paris 2024

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

8 years

Sorry but 4 years ago, at London 2012, being British made you feel proud. Today it just makes you feel embarrassed

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@OlympicStatman

3 years

From 1906 - the sport of Vigoro, a combination of tennis and cricket that never caught the imagination of the public

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

8 years

For those who haven't noticed - @brianmoore666 dismantling Piers Morgan on twitter is a work of art.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

5 years

Sadly my mother passed away last night. Even the biggest hearts don't last forever.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

6 years

Latest on the #doping scandal at the World Nordic Skiing Championships. According to German police sources - 50 to 60 athletes from different countries from sports such as swimming, cycling, football and handball are involved. Police have found the blood bags involved.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

6 years

#Swimming Spectacular break-up between Olympic champion Katinka Hosszu and her husband... 😱😱😱

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@OlympicStatman

6 years

#WorldCup 60 years ago today Ivor Allchurch scored of the great World Cup goals as Wales beat Hungary 2-1

ALLCHURCH - against hungary 1958

Recorded and uploaded by Marcus Walkin

www.youtube.com

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

3 years

#Athletics Russia sent 9 race walkers to the 2012 London Olympics. All 9 have now been disqualified from the Games for doping

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@OlympicStatman

3 months

#Swimming Because Jack McMillan gets a gold medal in the 4 x 200 for a swim in the heats I make it that this is the first time a gold medal winning GB team has included representation from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

8 years

#Olympics Owain Doull has become the first Welsh speaking Olympic Champion.

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@OlympicStatman

4 years

#Olympics #Athletics Australian immigration card 1956 Recognize the athlete?

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

3 years

Polish TV having a bit of a flag nightmare today. 😁

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

3 years

#Olympics On this day in 1900, the start of the Olympic Games marathon in Paris.

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@OlympicStatman

1 year

OTD in 1988 Des Lynam on BBC Olympic Grandstand looks straight at the camera and says "I've just been handed a piece of paper which, if it's right, is just about the most dramatic story of these Olympics or perhaps any other..."

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

4 years

#Olympics Swiss team win the 4 man bob at the 1936 Olympics. If you put your ear to the photograph you can hear them screaming in four different languages.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

7 years

#London2017 Astonishing. If her number has been tied on correctly she would be world champion #Spanovic

Miguel Villaseñor

@MigVillasenor

7 years

#London2017 El dorsal que se desenganchó, ese imperdible mal puesto le ha hecho perder el título a Spanovic.

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Not a good look for British Athletics to turn down an IAAF invitation for Jade O'Dowda as she now had a better chance of reaching the top 8 than most of the GB team.

CITIUS MAG

@CitiusMag

1 year

Reigning heptathlon world champion Nafi Thiam has reportedly withdrawn from this year's World Championships in Budapest due to an Achilles injury, according to @destandaard .

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

3 years

#Olympics After 97 years of trying, the Phillipines finally take their first gold medal. Diaz wins in weightlifting

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

3 months

#Olympics In 1908 Bert Andrews from Carmarthen was favoured to win gold in track cycling but was badly injured in a crash a week before the Games and couldn't take part. 116 years later the town have finally produced an Olympic champion.

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@OlympicStatman

3 years

#Olympics #Athletics advert from after the 1924 Paris Olympics

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

8 years

Sometimes you have to wait 2168 years for a record to be broken. Stat by @bambam1729

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@OlympicStatman

5 years

#Cycling Biggest Danish victory in Yorkshire since the viking Ivar the Boneless conquered York in the 9th century

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

5 years

Nigeria beat France at #Curling

Surto Olímpico

@SurtoOlimpico

5 years

Uma vitória para a história dos Esportes de Inverno. A comemoração da dupla da Nigéria, que bateu a França por 8-5 nesta quinta-feira pelo Mundial de Curling para Duplas Mistas, na Noruega. Foi a primeira vitória do continente africano na história da modalidade 🎉🎉🇳🇬🇳🇬🥌🥌

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#Olympics On this day in 1904 Gaelic Football and hurling made their only appearance at an Olympic Games. St. Louis Innisfalls and the Chicago Fenians played exhibition games against each other in both sports

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

8 years

#Cycling Wild scenes of crowd jubilation at the World Road Championships in Qatar

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@OlympicStatman

3 years

#Football #Athletics World Champion high jumper Blanka Vlasic, with megaphone, in the crowd at Croatia versus Spain tonight

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

5 years

Really not sure about this. He had 1 competitive race all year. Deserves any amount of awards you want to give him but probably not this one.

World Athletics

@WorldAthletics

5 years

Marathon king @EliudKipchoge is crowned Male Athlete of the Year 🏆🇰🇪 #AthleticsAwards

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5 years

My mum was discharged from hospital today, 3 weeks after her heart attack. Still weak but better than I hoped. Thanks to everyone at Bronglais and Tregaron hospitals for looking after her at this difficult time.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

6 years

#Tennis Draw for the 1st Wimbledon Championships in 1877

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

3 years

Public service announcement. If you're a journalist covering the Tokyo Olympics (or just a fan), and want some historical background and/or statistics, you could do a lot worse than bookmarking for the next few months. 😉

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

6 years

Ronaldo is the latest player to score a #WorldCup hat-trick. This guy was the first. Bert Paternaude of the Fall River Marksmen and the USA. Versus Paraguay 1930

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

3 years

#Olympics History coming up. If Flora Duffy holds on in the triathlon, Bermuda will become the least populous nation ever to win Olympic gold

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

5 years

Fastest indoor 800m anywhere in the world since 2006

Emily Evans

@RunEmilyERun

5 years

Result of the invitational 800m race in Glasgow just now. 1:57.91 for Jemma Reekie!

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

8 years

#Olympics Weightlifter Chagnaadorj Usukhbayar of Mongolia failed every lift he attempted in Rio. He's now been disqualified for doping

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

3 years

#Bobsleigh If Greg Rutherford makes the GB team for Beijing 2022 he'd be the first Summer Olympics athlete with a gold in an individual event to compete at the Winter Games since 1968 high hurdles champ Willie Davenport

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

6 years

And the winner of the 2018 "Living Metaphor of the Year" is...

Andy McCullough

@ByMcCullough

6 years

This is horrifying. The eagle let loose during the National Anthem is lost and terrified, flying and landing on random spectators in the crowd.

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@OlympicStatman

3 years

#Athletics When will the BBC realize that you can have pundits analyse the action without having to show them on air in place of showing the action?

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@OlympicStatman

8 years

Betting odds in August. Leicester to win Premier League 5000-1 Elvis to be found alive working in a chip shop in Macclesfield 2000-1

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@OlympicStatman

3 years

It's 1.25 am and I'm doing a little jig in my living room because someone I've never met has won a bronze medal in the walk. It's the beauty of friendships via twitter

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

8 years

#Olympics Phelps 13 Leonidas 12. Hard luck Leonidas but the 2168 year old record has gone

Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

8 years

#Olympics With his 12th individual Olympic title Michael Phelps equal the all time Olympic record set by Leonidas of Rhodes in 152 BC

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

2 years

#Athletics Competition has been good but, from afar, the whole feel of #Eugene2022 seems a lot more low key than the last two world championships. Doesn't have the showbiz of London or even Doha. Is that fair?

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

7 years

#Olympic Congratulations to Russia on setting a historic record by being the first nation to record over 100 doping disqualifications at the Olympic Games

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

8 years

Tomorrow I don't want to see my country vote for ignorance, hatred, vanity and poverty so please #VoteRemain

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

7 years

Sam Warburton. captain of the British Lions rugby. Geraint Thomas, yellow jersey TdF Gareth Bale, Real Madrid. Were at school together

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@OlympicStatman

3 years

#Athletics Controversial opinion? The mixed relay is the first event to be obsolete before its Olympic debut. Once they worked out that M-W-W-M was the best strategy then all the excitement was sucked out of it...

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

4 years

#Athletics Bombshell Alert. Russia media are reporting that former World Champion hurdler Sergei Shubenkov has recorded a positive doping test.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

2 years

#Athletics Maybe a controversial opinion but I've watched TV coverage of the World Championships, Commonwealth Games and European Championships so far this year. Watching Eugene, the sense of occasion coming out of the TV never got close to the other two championships

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

2 years

#Athletics I've said it before but Laura Muir, a world class athlete who can also diagnose diseases of sheep, is basically my idea of a perfect woman...

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

3 months

The Sports Illustrated #Olympic predictions have been published

Who’ll Win in Paris? SI Picks Every Medal at the 2024 Olympics

From aquatics to wrestling and everything in between, we’re picking the podium for all 329 medal events at the Summer Games.

www.si.com

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

5 years

Insult to injury

Actu Vélo

@ActuVelo_

5 years

[ #UAETour 🇦🇪] Quand une voiture de l'organisation arrose un coureur en roulant sur un bidon ! 😂 #lequipeVELO #LesRP #TwittCyclos

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

3 years

#Athletics You have to feel sorry for USADA, they've been as lenient as they can under global anti-doping rules yet they've been accused of everything from being anti-American to racism by people ignorant of those rules.

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@OlympicStatman

5 years

So we buried Mum today. A surreal occasion. Bright sunshine, the maximum allowed of ten people around the grave, nothing inside the church and the rooks in the nearby trees drowning out the service. Strange times indeed.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

7 years

#CWG2018 Elinor Barker becomes the first Welsh sportsperson to have won Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Games gold medals.

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@OlympicStatman

3 months

#Olympics GB Medal update Gold - Men's mountain bike Tom Pidcock A golden ferret award for the man who punctured and still won

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@OlympicStatman

3 years

#Olympics ICYMI Eric Kynard is now officially Olympic high jump champion for 2012. Robbie Grabarz, Derek Drouin and Barshim officially upgraded to silver.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

6 years

#Athletics Well, google translate has outdone itself this time. 8.08 pm in Ostrava see the shot put replaced by an entirely new event.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

7 years

#WinterOlympics Red Gerard is the youngest American male Winter Olympic Champion since the legendary Billy Fiske in 1932 in bobsleigh

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

3 months

#Olympics Henry Fieldman makes Olympic history by being the first person to win an Olympic medal in both men's and women's events

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

8 years

In 30 years Britain has moved from almost ignoring the #Paralympics to having their champions as national heroes. Good move GB

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@OlympicStatman

3 years

#Skiing The Swedish authorities in Östersund will not provide a ski stadium for hosting the World Cup final in cross-country skiing if the FIS allows Russian athletes to compete.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

2 years

#Olympics OK, this is fun. I found an illustrated article from 1928 about the US Olympic team training on board ship on their way to Amsterdam

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@OlympicStatman

4 years

#Olympics Thanks to David Wallechinsky and Conor Mah it looks like the mystery of the Mexican bobsleigh team has been solved

The 1928 Mexican Winter Olympic Bobsleigh Team

Today on Oldest Olympians we wanted to share a piece of Olympic history that most people are probably unaware of. Many might be surprised to hear that Mexico, not a particularly wintery nation, has…

olympstats.com

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@OlympicStatman

1 year

#Budapest23 Josh Kerr confirming that the Norwegians won't be sending that Christmas Tree to Trafalgar Square in London ever again...

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

7 years

@TourDeJose Of course Germany are so successful because everybody luges to work in Munich

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

9 years

#Athletics As promised, the list of athletes DQ from London 2012 for doping. 38 names - 2 parts

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@OlympicStatman

4 years

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Charles Bukowski

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

9 years

#Athletics Gatlin divides fans. 50% hate him, the rest detest him.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

3 years

#Olympics The all-time record for most consecutive wins in the same Olympic event stands at 10. This stands to Herodoros of Megara who won successive titles at playing the trumpet between 328 and 296 BC

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

6 years

Been on a spending spree. Other people tell twitter when they get a new cat or dog. I however bought this chap... 😄

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

2 months

A reminder that Thomas Bach is an Olympic fencing champion from 1976. Who would have guessed?

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

6 years

3619 days after the final 689 days after Russia was disqualified 603 days after Belarus was disqualified

Gabby Pieraccini

@smokymozzarella

6 years

BEIJING 4x400 FINALLY GIRLS GET THEIR MEDAL 🥉😭😭😭 @KellySotherton @chrissyohuruogu @nic400 @mokoro4 #mulleranniversarygames

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

5 years

Mainly for #Olympic buffs. After 112 years the complete results for the 1908 Olympic gymnastics individual event have been located in an obscure French newspaper

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

4 years

@SlenderSherbet @ppaul3 Sadly, Bananarama are not the force they once were

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

5 years

@richardosman Typical media elite point of view, You must realize that the silent majority in this country favour option C. Did we learn nothing from Brexit?

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

9 years

Interesting Wikipedia stat. Page views for Meldonium for last 2 days pre-Sharapova = 870. Views for 2 days after Sharapova = 1.57 million

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

3 months

Please indulge me for a moment. On this night in 2012 me and my dad were baling silage for a neighbour and I wanted to finish to go back to watch the ceremony on TV. By the time of the 2016 ceremony his mind had fallen victim to dementia. RIP Dad

James Melville 🚜

@JamesMelville

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It’s the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris tonight. 12 years ago in London, Danny Boyle directed his masterpiece love letter to Britain. An extraordinary opening ceremony.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

3 years

Message to journalists covering the Winter Olympics and people just interested in the Games. has all the historical data you could ever need...

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

3 years

#Olympics Nobody ever said "We want more speeches by IOC dignitaries" at opening ceremonies...

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

4 years

#Football Germany/West Germany in World Cup qualifying. Played 94 Won 75 Drawn 18 Lost 3 Losses Portugal 1985 England 2001 North Macedonia 2021

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

10 months

Big thanks to everyone who has said nice things about Olympedia tonight.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

4 years

#Football #Wales Welshmen to win the Italian Championships Aaron Ramsey 2020 John Charles 1958, 1960, 1961 Howard Passadoro 1899, 1900, 1902, 1903

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

8 years

Fans of all sports should be calling on this ignorant fool to resign.

HEAD Tennis

@head_tennis

8 years

Statement from HEAD CEO, Johan Eliasch on CAS ruling on Maria #Sharapova

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

3 years

#Football The Polish FA have requested that their World Cup play-off game versus Russia be moved away from Moscow

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@OlympicStatman

7 years

@KellySotherton They think it's Chernova, It isn't now...

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@OlympicStatman

4 years

@brianmoore666 Brian. I apologize for hating your guts when you were playing for England. You were right after all.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

4 years

In giving his support to Mr. Cummings, the prime minister has behaved like a coward, a hypocrite and with a lack of humanity that should bar him from the lowest level of public office. In short, he’s a prize shit covering for a prize shit. F**k them all to hell

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@OlympicStatman

3 months

#Athletics Petition for addition of women's 4 x 800m in Paris. Sign here.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

7 years

You know you're a #TrackAndField fan when you realize straight away that the new royal baby weighs almost exactly the same as the women's hammer...

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

6 years

#WALvENG William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill. Isaac Newton, W.G. Grace, Will Carling, Dinsdale Landen, Pope Adrian IV, Bill Oddie, The Kinks and most of the Brotherhood of Man. Your boys took a hell of a beating.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

6 years

So, in 3 days the PM has; 1 Lost by the biggest margin for a government in 100 years 2 Narrowly survived a no confidence vote 3 Been bumped onto BBC 2 by Derby County.

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Hilary Evans

@OlympicStatman

5 years

#DiamondLeague Olympic qualifying times from @EilishMccolgan and Melissa Courtney

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@OlympicStatman

2 years

So I'll say it, I love the Commonwealth Games because of its' mix of (sometimes) high quality sport and the fact that losing is not that important on a global scale.

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