We’ve just seen the sporting GOAT there.
If you liken Carrom to snooker or pool played with your fingers, you’d appreciate just how tough those shots are. Wow.
Shame about the hair.
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Unlike games like Chess, which is again taken seriously here, Caroom like football can get tricky based on external factors.
The carrom ‘board’, coins and the ‘striker’ (used by the player to strike his coins) play a vital role.
It’s really a great and tricky game like pool/snooker, but very easy to play at home as compared to the former two.
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My LTP (losers to pay) time was more in pool though. The late 90s and early 2000s were the time when pool parlours had loads of takers esp in Hyderabad.
As for the video , i will say that its not a standard carrom board. Wont be possible even for a guy of that evident talent to hit that on a wooden surface
Easy to pick up but tough to master.
And talking of chess , my chess game has become pathetic of late. Guess this is what lack of practice does to people.
I’m now utterly inept at figuring out the oppositions gameplay within one game. And this is coming from a guy who played till collegiate level
Wow, that’s tough luck
On the other hand, he has now had plenty of time to get vaccinated and didn’t bother. He spends his time travelling to play golf and being in the middle of large crowds - many of whom are older and potentially vulnerable. It seems negligent of him to not take action sooner.
Feel for him in losing the tournament because of it, very tough situation, but could so easily have been avoided.
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What’s to say that he did get vaccinated and still got the disease ?
Vaccination doesn’t stop someone getting the disease. Merely inhibits
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I read elsewhere that the PGA testing programme only tested non-vaccinated golfers (who were close contacts) daily, others were tested less frequently. Rahm was tested daily, hence he must not have been vaccinated.
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Wow. Boggles the mind. Couldn’t the PGA make it a mandate for vaccination if you wanted to play.
I think that’s getting into dangerous territory, taking away somebody’s livelihood based on their decision not to receive a vaccination. This would have been vigorously challenged by the players via the courts. Though, I’m sure the PGA must have considered this as an option, but likely foreseen the potential legal costs.
Personally, I think everybody should have the right to body autonomy, though when your decision puts other people in danger, the lines blur somewhat.
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when there’s talk globally about covid passports for facilitating international travel or even visits to a pub ?
You have to be vaccinated to attend school in most places.
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What difference does this make to body autonomy? This simply means you have a choice what you do with your body.
If there are restrictions on what non-vaccinated people can and cannot do, that’s fair enough in my view. If a non-vaccinated person can’t travel or visit a pub in order to protect themself and others, to me that’s reasonable. Forcing somebody to put something into their body against their will, in my view, isn’t reasonable.
For what it’s worth, I’m not an anti-vax crackpot and am myself fully vaccinated.
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That’s what Sithbare said though - be vaccinated if you want to play. Want to be a pro golfer? Be vaccinated.
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I think there’s a difference between losing the right to earn a living and losing the right to go to the pub for a social pint or whatever.
It’s like your job saying get vaccinated or you’re sacked. Everybody needs to pay their bills, nobody needs to go the pub.
Vaccination being a must in order to attend school then ?
Covid vaccination isn’t a must to attend school in most places though, as you claimed.
Call you tell me which of the 190+ countries of the world require Covid vaccination to attend school?