From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Thu Oct 19 11:26:54 2000 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) id e9J9Hdx24259 for britdisc-outgoing; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:17:39 +0100 (BST) Received: from snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (root@snowdrop [137.205.192.31]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9J9HXJ24240 for <britdisc-real@pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:17:38 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9J9HWY25506 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:17:32 +0100 (BST) Received: from mailhost.spencerstuart.com (spencerstuart.com [216.80.20.106]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA22377 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 04:17:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from WZiants@SpencerStuart.com) Received: from 10.51.1.50 by mailhost.spencerstuart.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Thu, 19 Oct 2000 04:16:53 -0500 (Central Daylight Time) Received: by eurmailhub.spencerstuart.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <4D5FZ2W3>; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:13:31 +0100 Message-ID: <1CE8BED757A5D411B85F0002B30806B704EC1E@frantapp01.spencerstuart.com> From: "Ziants, Wayne" <WZiants@spencerstuart.com> To: "'Britdisc'" <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: More quality frisbee publicity Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:56:02 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Nice work! Cheers Wayne x Alte Hunde, Frankfurt [my source - The Guardian's news digest http://www.guardian.co.uk/thewrap/article/0,6279,384407,00.html] ACCIDENT PRONE. The Star ridicules the British frisbee team, which hopes to compete in the next Olympics, for constantly injuring themselves, calling them a "right bunch of tossers". [and from the Star http://www.megastar.co.uk/news/20001019n_frisbee.html] Peril of the frisbee SPINNERS: Looks like the girls don't have limp wrists NEIL CHANDLER THE British frisbee team really are a bunch of useless tossers because they keep injuring themselves. So in desperation they've hired a team doctor to tend to a raft of odd ailments caused by chucking the lightweight plastic disc around. Team members regularly suffer flinger's finger, catcher's cramp, flicker's wrist, frisbee sting or tosser's toe. The injuries keep coming thick and fast and they hope the new medic can get to the root of their problems. Our frisbee players - who hope to represent Britain at the next Olympics - have already suffered serious injuries alongside regular muscle strains and frequent ligament damage. At the recent world championships in Germany one of the British team suffered serious chest injuries. He was rushed to hospital for emergency treatment after colliding with another player. Players say the sport is not as easy as it looks, and it involves two hours of non-stop action. And they hurl the discs huge distances, with the world record standing at 211.32 metres. Players of the game - invented in America in the 1940s - want it included in the next Olympics. The team's doctor Paul Marfleet, a GP from Colchester, Essex, will act as their medical advisor. He said: "It may look easy but you have to be extremely fit. And although the rules make it a non-contact sport collisions are inevitable with people constantly at risk of twisting an ankle or pulling a muscle." The frisbee - 200m have been sold worldwide - takes its name from the Frisbee Pie Company. Their round tin lids were used by the original inventors of the game in San Luis Obispo, California, in 1947.