Many Canadians think Nash’s NBA MVP award tops Weir’s Masters victoryBy The Canadian Press
A poll suggests that most Canadians believe Steve Nash winning this year’s NBA’s most valuable player award is as big or even bigger than golfer Mike Weir’s victory at the 2003 Masters.
In a Decima Research poll, 48 per cent of respondents said they believed Nash winning the MVP was as big as Weir’s victory, while 22 per cent said it was bigger.
Some 16 per cent of those surveyed said winning the Masters was still a bigger accomplishment than being named NBA MVP. Another 13 per cent said winning the MVP was not that big an accomplishment.
With more than 1,000 respondents, the poll is considered accurate to within plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
The poll was conducted between May 12 and May 15. Nash won the NBA award on May 8.
Not surprisingly Nash, who grew up in Victoria, received the largest support in British Columbia. Some 40 per cent of B.C. respondents said winning the MVP is a bigger deal than the green jacket while 44 per cent said it was as big an accomplishment.
Only eight per cent said the MVP was not as big as winning the Masters while nine per cent didn’t think the MVP was that big a feat at all.
Even in Weir’s home province of Ontario, 23 per cent of those surveyed felt winning the MVP was bigger than winning the Masters while 47 per cent believed it was as big.
Another 18 per cent said winning the Masters was bigger than what Nash did and 12 per cent didn’t think winning the MVP was that big an accomplishment.
Overall, 27 per cent of men compared to 17 per cent of women, thought Nash’s achievement was greater.
― Huk-L, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)
Wembley bridge named White Horse
A footbridge at the new Wembley Stadium will be named the White Horse Bridge.
The bridge will connect the national stadium, which opens in a year's time, to the town centre and the decision was made after a BBC Five Live poll.
It is named after the police horse that was used to restore order following a pitch invasion in 1923 - in the first FA Cup final at the old stadium.
Sir Alf Ramsey came second from a shortlist that included Sir Bobby Charlton, Sir Geoff Hurst and Live Aid.
The competition was run by the London Development Agency (LDA) which, along with Transport for London, is supporting the £120million development of the area surrounding the new stadium.
Tony Winterbottom, the executive director of the LDA, described it as an appropriate choice because, like the horse, the bridge would also improve safety and the "whole movement around Wembley".
"It shows that people love the story of Billie the White Horse, but it also shows that people supported the 1966 heroes - so we've got to commemorate them somewhere else, I think," he said.
The chosen name finished with 34% of the vote.
Fans in Germany, Scotland, Australia, Ireland, Wales and New Zealand ran concerted campaigns to promote their heroes for feats achieved against England.
The most nominated name was Dietmar Hamann, who scored the last competitive goal at the old Wembley stadium when Germany opened their 2002 World Cup qualifying campaign with a 1-0 win against England.
Story from BBC SPORT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport1/hi/football/4574683.stm
Published: 2005/05/24 07:56:54 GMT
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― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)
Which is crap, but worth it that it is called White Horse Bridge, named after, wait for it... a white horse.
(I liked Huk's poll better but I think he made it up)
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)
Ailsa, if I could make up stuff like that, I'd be too content in my life to fritter it away on ILX.
― Huk-L, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)