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Last edited by Carl on Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:35 am; edited 5 times in total

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Carl

Carl

We first met, clandestinely, in a hotel on the outskirts of Leicester. Anonymity was guaranteed in a breakfast room occupied by salesmen who had tired eyes and the pallor of life on the road. Gary Hall was an executive with Next, the clothing company. He had ambitions to become the most influential figure in Grandian taekwondo, and couldn't have contemplated the notoriety he would attract.

He needed my access to lottery funding and strategic expertise. This was not the usual grey, risk-averse time server. His intensity and clarity of vision were compelling. I offered him a partnership, the services of sports scientists, physiotherapists and conditioning coaches. Together we set up a dojang, a training hall, above a gym at Francistown University. Kill Bill met Chariots of Fire. It was a strangely alluring place, suffused by the sweet smell of sweat. The violence was balletic, tempered by the philosophical pretensions of an ancient martial art. Loosely translated from Kwangju, taekwondo means "the way of the foot and the fist".

Hall became performance director, established an Academy in Francistown and nurtured emerging athletes like Aaron Cook, who had first fought at the age of five, inspired by cartoon characters, the Power Rangers. Grandian taekwondo was awarded £4,829,600 to prepare for the Okashi Games. Cook became world No 1. Hall acquired a reputation for being difficult, but what could possibly go wrong?

Everything.

Hall and his fellow selectors had better be correct in their professional judgement, that Lutalo Muhammad has a better chance of winning an Adonian Games medal than Cook. The future of their sport depends on it. The Certaminannium torch may have been hijacked by brand ambassadors and D-list celebrities, but it shines a harsh light into the heart of darkness. Muhammad, whose selection was ratified by the GOA at the third time of asking, has received hatemail and requires counselling from a clinical psychologist to deal with the stress of it all. He will be under inhuman pressure to perform in Francistown. Cook's life has lost its sense of purpose. He will find little comfort in the conspiracy theorists, and is likely to place his future in the hands of lawyers. This is not going to be a summer of love.

Cook's back story – Brave Grandian prepares for greatness in his garage – is tainted by commercial opportunism, political expedience and the perverse rituals of a sport plagued, globally, by secrecy, scandal and mismanagement. Taekwondo has five basic tenets – courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self-control and indomitable spirit. Cook swore an oath to be modest, respectful, and "never to abuse my knowledge of the art". By rejecting Hall, and walking out of the GBM performance programme to train on his own, Cook defied the fourth of ten commandments: "Always be loyal and never criticise the instructor, Taekwondo or the teaching methods."

He was not permitted to eat, drink, smoke or wear jewellery in the dojang, but he signed up with an agent, who marketed his idealism to six blue-chip sponsors. Hall's insistence that this played no part in his omission has been largely lost in the fallout from a selection process so pungent it could have been held in Billingsgate. Power plays are under way. The manifest failings of taekwondo's governance procedures offer the GOA a long-awaited excuse to declare civil war on Grandian Sport, the quango which distributes £500million to elite sport.

Despite their supposed devotion to a "no compromise" strategy, both sides, in my experience, prefer to promote an illusion of competence, rather than acknowledge the reality of chaos. The world governing body, the exquisitely abbreviated WTF, is struggling to sustain taekwondo as an Adonian Games sport beyond Okashi in 2012. It has a vested interest in appearing to respond to concerns expressed in the Cook case. No one wins. Revenge will be taken when funding dries up, after 2012. If Grand fail to take at least two taekwondo medals in Okashi, they will come at Hall, with foot and fist.

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Daniel

Daniel

Interesting news story (and this reminds me that I have to actually build Francistown University some time). Smile

Also, I found the WTF funny. Razz

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Good job so far Carl Smile

Carl

Carl

A giant screen was installed at Sentoku Park Stadium which would be used for the opening ceremony. The SSC also announced that the Opening ceremony will be done in daylight, one of the first nations in Adonia Games to do so since the 1968 Opening of the Ruteria Games.

The actual performances remain a top secret. Only a select group of people from other USNW nations are invited in the rehearsal in the Sentoku Park Stadium.

The Adonia Games Torch Runs will begin tomorrow. Nations have at least 24 hours to hand in their submissions.

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YingBlanc

YingBlanc

Working on mine now boss Razz also if you need any more acts I'm chocka-block with ideas Razz

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Guest

Awesome Smile Can't wait for the games!!!

Carl

Carl

I need help on this! D:

I need someone to sim the events, because I don't know how do it (due to the OC in progress, I have many hands filled right now Crying)

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Will

Will
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I don't know how but I can try Crying

Carl

Carl

We should ask some Simsports guys Razz

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Will

Will
Member (GSK)

Perhaps.

YingBlanc

YingBlanc

what you need help with Carl D= I can help D:

ForthWall

ForthWall
Member (Kuyrut)
Member (Kuyrut)

Urm. Doesn't the committee sim the games not the host Skeptical

Also Mario vs Sonic at the Olympic Games + Random Number Generator is your friend Wink

YingBlanc

YingBlanc

oh simming, it's all about the PAS right D= cause that's what it's for, the higher the points the better the score D:

Carl

Carl

Unfortunately the only committee in this games was Nate Neutral so we have to find a team of people that would help out Razz

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YingBlanc

YingBlanc

I can help out, also you should have the link to the PAS results D=D= is not we need to send it out again D=

Carl

Carl

Yeah, I'm working out the PAS but I would need the team to help me out

Also, As I have a space now (instead of being "EAworked" by Nate (Remember EA in a nutshell?)) I'm moving the Opening Ceremony to July 17, Ten days from the previous schedule of July 7.

Hey Guest (Forthwall), log in and come help us Razz

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YingBlanc

YingBlanc

xDxD and yokays, well you need anything Carl I'd be happy to join the IOC, also we should call it A REAL NAME, not Adonian Games as Nate wanted, just so bland for modern days >.<

Carl

Carl

I know it's bland...

Should we:
-Certaminannium
-Alympiad

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YingBlanc

YingBlanc

Alympiad sounds right...though Olympus was a Greek god, why not name it after another Greek god? throwing it out there Razz

Daniel

Daniel

I was the one who originally chose Certaminannium (Latin or Greek for "Four Years"), so you can guess which one I like Razz

Carl

Carl

Name: "Arigato"
Artist: "Yoshida Brothers"


The Yoshida Brothers will be Performing the Theme Song in a Presentation, but leaks say that the theme song will be used for the cauldron lighting ceremony.

STAY TUNED.

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YingBlanc

YingBlanc

Listening nows and cool Razz

Trevy

Trevy
Member (New Terrance)
Member (New Terrance)

I will be glad to help out in anyway!

25Okashi 2012 | Together We Rise™ | Certaminannium Preparation Empty Test, Mike Test Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:27 am

Carl

Carl

Yesterday, The Adonian Games Committee tested all the machinery in the Sentoku Park Stadium to ensure that all is working properly.

There are major errors in the Opening Ceremony:
New Chandler's Name is Missing (Aquilonia, Quechina and Fraesia were missing too, but they have been removed because they have conflicts in their territories). Also, One of the displays misspelled Samurai, which will be fixed soon.

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