AFTER A SUCCESSFUL first year in 2014, the Sport Summit will once again run during the opening two days of the Web Summit when it returns to the RDS in November this year.
And headlining this year will be 2013 Tour De France winner Chris Froome and former Ajax, Juventus and Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar.
Froome is among the favourites to win Le Tour again this season and he is set to speak about his experience riding some of cycling’s most challenging races.
Winner of eight league titles, two Champions Leagues and a Uefa Cup, Van der Sar is now marketing manager of Ajax having retired from playing in 2011.
Among the other guests confirmed so far are Cindy Cone — winner of 158 caps for the USAWNT — who is now fights to solve sports’ concussion crisis.
There will also be appearances from former Minnesota Vikings running back Robert Smith, Elizabeth Parkinson, SVP of Marketing at the Detroit Lions, Dessie Farrell, CEO of the Gaelic Players Association and Nigel Eccles, CEO of fantasy sports company Fanduel.
Irelands gain. Let’s hope Sexton shows him just what he was missing…
We do need to embrace the tag of No.1. We should aim to start fast and take it to Wales early both physically and with the speed of our play. No cagey kickfests that gift Wales the ball. Deny them the ball, score early, silence the crowd. The Welsh will fight to the bitter end but fill heads with doubt & they’ll play for pride and a respectable loss rather than believing they can win
This article contains an unacceptable number of typos. Does anyone ever review these before they’re posted?
@Les Wynan: I’d say Councillor, you ought to do more reading, and less whining about typo’s!
@Les Wynan: seems commonplace now, some of the “national” papers (I’m looking at you I.T.), have loads of typos compared to yrs ago. Its all editbot now, or at least I hope it is or the human editors have completely lost the craft.
@Phil Mc Donald: Les Wynan
@Les Wynan: less whining
It seems to have worked out in our favour because by all accounts Lions tours are another brutal effort on top of an already long season. The rest Sexton had during the tour might be the reason he’s still fit and playing for Ireland today.
Mind games. C’mon Ireland
Classic Gatland. Talk up Sexton to elicit a reaction from Bigger.
@Zippy: Biggar even
@Zippy: haha good one. Biggar just got bigger
Sexton might not be playing now had he gone on that tour. Who knows. Less Irish on Lions the better imo.
@John Harte: it’s definitely a thing, the exhaustion catches up, players have come out and said it. Conan looks like he went through a dip after it, but seems to be coming back into form again thankfully. But the upside is they usually come out stronger in the long run, a particularly gruelling tour can live inside a player for the rest of their career and they can draw on it (après dip in form)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/forget-flashy-fly-halves-give-me-true-leaders-like-owen-farrell-jonathan-sexton-and-dan-biggar-any-day-mzrw0pttq
Link to SW column..