Irish preist in "raving drunk" marathon attack

[meglamaniac]

Cornelius "Neil" Horan, the same idiot ex-preist who got pissed and ran onto the track at the last Silverstone British Grand Prix, ruined the men's marathon by once again getting pissed and attempting to rugby tackle the leader, Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima with around 15 minutes of the race left to run.
Once de Lima was freed by other spectators and officials he went on to finish third, and was awarded the Pierre de Coubertin Medal as well as a Bronze in recognition of his acceptance of the outcome, in front of millions world wide during the live broadcast of the closing ceremony.
Horan is in police custody, presumably being violated multiple times with a baton for spoiling the flawless security record of the games at the final hour.


Well done that twat.
I bet his countrymen are really pleased that he's done miracles to get rid of the "Father Ted" image of drunk Irishmen wandering around clutching bottles of whisky.




[edit]
Linkage to official coverage:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olym...cs/3610598.stm

[Rids]

What a ****ing prick.

[Vaio]

Father Jack was the drunken priest, Ted was the one that had the money 'sitting in his account for safekeeping'

~Vaio~

[meglamaniac]

I was refering to the name of the show rather than the name of the priest

Speaking of which, I saw my favourite episode - Speed 3 - again the other day. Absolutely fantastic.
"Ah now Ted, you forgot your brick!"
"DOOOUGAL! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

[Vaio]

Speed 3 - Better than the other 2

Shame there is a large portion of the world that thinks comedy is an episode of friends and will never ever see Father Ted.

~Vaio~

[Smudge]

that was the funniest and best thing in the olympics

i salute mr drunkard

[Deathjam|wee]

so hmm anyone seen jonny lately

[skiddy]

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[Tactitus]

Originally Posted by meglamaniac

Cornelius "Neil" Horan, the same idiot ex-preist who got pissed and ran onto the track at the last Silverstone British Grand Prix, ruined the men's marathon by once again getting pissed and attempting to rugby tackle the leader, Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima with around 15 minutes of the race left to run.

A pretty poor tackle attempt, imho.

At least the IOC didn't ask Baldini to give up his gold medal.

[Event_Horizon]

I think the other two runners behind him should not have passed him. They should of waited in fairness to the event....

[Embroglio]

i think dr. ****ing who should have shown up and stopped time untill he recovered

[Tactitus]

Originally Posted by Event_Horizon

I think the other two runners behind him should not have passed him.

No one passed him while he was being delayed. He lost at most 10 seconds of a ~30 second lead and wasn't passed until several minutes later. He ended the race in third place, 18 seconds behind second-place finisher Keflezighi.

They should of waited in fairness to the event....

When it happened, they were about 500 feet behind him. I doubt they could clearly see/understand what was happening. And purely on the basis of the finishing times, it would have made no difference anyway.

[Leshy]

At least he does have a fairly unique medal to talk home about.

Why go for gold when you can get an exclusive Pierre de Coubertin-medal that no other Olympic champion got?

[Sunday8pm]

Originally Posted by Tactitus

No one passed him while he was being delayed. He lost at most 10 seconds of a ~30 second lead and wasn't passed until several minutes later. He ended the race in third place, 18 seconds behind second-place finisher Keflezighi.

When it happened, they were about 500 feet behind him. I doubt they could clearly see/understand what was happening. And purely on the basis of the finishing times, it would have made no difference anyway.

To the first paragraph, his rythym will have been disturbed, being forced to slow down or resisted will of caused extra lactic build up that would of possibly affected the speed he could of ran the rest of the race in. You know running from a stopping start (accelerating and what not) does kill a lot of time he will have lost more than 10 seconds when he got intefered with if you count how long it would of taken him to recover his rythym

To the second paragraph first two sentences yah that's understandable, last sentence that is bullshit :P

[IncubusGod]

Originally Posted by meglamaniac

I bet his countrymen are really pleased that he's done miracles to get rid of the "Father Ted" image of drunk Irishmen wandering around clutching bottles of whisky.

He wasn't clutching a bottle of whiskey, I doubt he was even drunk. They probably just assumed that.
The man is a lunatic. Not simply a drunken idiot.

He needs help, simple as that. As if shouting about the second coming at cars doing 180 miles and hour wasn't enough of a hint for the authorities.

Now this. Lock him up for his own saftey.


Plus I resent people making a big deal of his nationality. In general when lunatics from other countries decide to screw things up, they never seem to pin the nationality on them with such vigour.

[Radical Edward]

Originally Posted by skiddy

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Last edited by Kurashima on 29 Aug 2004 at 22:43.

lame.

[Structural Integrity]

Originally Posted by Radical Edward

lame.

Yes

Sensational priest tho.

[djbass]

I'd give him the death penalty, and I'm not even joking about that.

[Dante Hicks]

The priest needed to be given a bit of a kicking.

[Nadval]

Originally Posted by Sunday8pm

To the first paragraph, his rythym will have been disturbed, being forced to slow down or resisted will of caused extra lactic build up that would of possibly affected the speed he could of ran the rest of the race in. You know running from a stopping start (accelerating and what not) does kill a lot of time he will have lost more than 10 seconds when he got intefered with if you count how long it would of taken him to recover his rythym

To the second paragraph first two sentences yah that's understandable, last sentence that is bullshit :P

Indeed. Try running 35km with 30 second lead and have someone drag you off the road... Simply having lost 10 seconds is enough to distract anyone. The emotion and mental state of a marathon runner is just as important as their physical state.

[Tactitus]

Originally Posted by Sunday8pm

To the first paragraph, his rythym will have been disturbed, being forced to slow down or resisted will of caused extra lactic build up that would of possibly affected the speed he could of ran the rest of the race in. You know running from a stopping start (accelerating and what not) does kill a lot of time he will have lost more than 10 seconds when he got intefered with if you count how long it would of taken him to recover his rythym

He may well have lost his rhythm and it may have taken him many seconds or even minutes to recover it--or he may never have recovered it. Whether or not the other runners stopped wouldn't necessarily have helped de Lima recover his rhythm.

One could arguably compensate de Lima for the actual time he lost while being restrained; but you can't compensate him for his lost rhythm and concentration because there's no way on God's earth to measure that.

To the second paragraph first two sentences yah that's understandable, last sentence that is bullshit :P

You'd be the expert on that.

Originally Posted by djbass

I'd give him the death penalty, and I'm not even joking about that.

Heh. He's not even going to jail.

[JonnyBGood]

In fairness to alcohol he's also (supposedly) mentally deranged. I don't think I can really complain about him making all Irish people look like drunkards due to the fact I was in the pub when that actually happened heh.

Edit: If you read tact's link above, you'll see what I'm talking about.

[Ste]

shame the Brit couldn't also take advantage and get the bronze.
No killer instinct...

[Radical Edward]

Originally Posted by Structural Integrity

Yes

Sensational priest tho.

did you see his note? Jesus is coming soon because the bible says so. ph33r.

[Marilyn Manson]

This is what Catholicism does to people's minds.

Look to Dace for further proof.

[Zword]

read the story in the news paper this morning. First thing on my mind was FS shoot the holy f*ck