Eddie The Eagle

Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Just watched the film of Eddie which came on after Match Of The Day.

At the time of his Olympic exploits (1988 in Calgary) Eddie was seen as a joke.
We Brits cringed while everyone else loved him - naturally as he wasn't representing their country!

Yet watching the film, you see the backdrop to the story, the early disability he faced, his dream to be an Olympian, the put downs from his own father (brilliantly played by Keith Allen) and the pompous twats running the British Olympics Committee that discouraged him at every move. This socially awkward kid / teenager / young man who never once let go of his dream when all around him dismissed / mocked / put barriers in his way and fulfilled his dream and represented his country in the Olympics.

Fair play to him. The best of British. A quintessential British man. And fuck the establishment.
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Spoilers!

Thought he was gonna win gold, turned it off now.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Just watched the film of Eddie which came on after Match Of The Day.

At the time of his Olympic exploits (1988 in Calgary) Eddie was seen as a joke.
We Brits cringed while everyone else loved him - naturally as he wasn't representing their country!

Yet watching the film, you see the backdrop to the story, the early disability he faced, his dream to be an Olympian, the put downs from his own father (brilliantly played by Keith Allen) and the pompous twats running the British Olympics Committee that discouraged him at every move. This socially awkward kid / teenager / young man who never once let go of his dream when all around him dismissed / mocked / put barriers in his way and fulfilled his dream and represented his country in the Olympics.

Fair play to him. The best of British. A quintessential British man. And fuck the establishment.
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Good film.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Just watched the film of Eddie which came on after Match Of The Day.

At the time of his Olympic exploits (1988 in Calgary) Eddie was seen as a joke.
We Brits cringed while everyone else loved him - naturally as he wasn't representing their country!

Yet watching the film, you see the backdrop to the story, the early disability he faced, his dream to be an Olympian, the put downs from his own father (brilliantly played by Keith Allen) and the pompous twats running the British Olympics Committee that discouraged him at every move. This socially awkward kid / teenager / young man who never once let go of his dream when all around him dismissed / mocked / put barriers in his way and fulfilled his dream and represented his country in the Olympics.

Fair play to him. The best of British. A quintessential British man. And fuck the establishment.
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He really is an admirable man, they tried to fuck him off and change the rules. If any Olympian deserved a knighthood it's this chap.
 
dickie davies said:
The qualifying rules were changed after Eddie's appearance
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He would have qualified before the rule was implemented so the rule was effectively a ban, we didn't have other representatives in the ski jump.

Effectively after the rules were coined he missed out on 2 Olympics.
 
mexico1970 said:
He would have qualified before the rule was implemented so the rule was effectively a ban, we didn't have other representatives in the ski jump.

Effectively after the rules were coined he missed out on 2 Olympics.
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It was something along the lines of each country was allowed a maximum amount of competitors, but following Eddie's appearance the rules were changed so that to compete, a minimum qualifying standard had to be met, as happens in other sports
 
dickie davies said:
It was something along the lines of each country was allowed a maximum amount of competitors, but following Eddie's appearance the rules were changed so that to compete, a minimum qualifying standard had to be met, as happens in other sports
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It was actually referred to as the Eddie The Eagle Rule and was introduced because of him, that's what made it different.

He was effectively banned as I stated.
 
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