(In 1924, Nadi challenged a journalist to a duel, with real swords, for the crime of printing the score of an exhibition match between French fencing champion Lucien Gaudin and Italian champion Candido Sassone. I wish something like this would happen today.
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The fight ended when Nadi cracked the whip, Indiana Jones–style, across Bottino’s hand, causing his opponent to drop the plank. Bottino, arming himself with a wooden beam, challenged Nadi - who, for some reason, was carrying a riding whip - to a duel. He also, apparently, trash-talked a countryman, Filippo Bottino, a weightlifter from Genoa. At the Antwerp games in 1920, Nadi won three gold medals (team foil, team épée, team sabre) and a silver (individual sabre). He also had a fondness for real-life duels. Italian swordsman Aldo Nadi was one of the greatest fencers of his generation. The thing about being famous for any kind of fighting art is people are constantly testing you. Antwerp, 1920: Trash Talk Leads to a Duel Here are some of the notable Olympic trash-talk moments in the history of the modern games. But in 2016, Olympic decorum, like everything else good and pure in this steadily shitifying world, is breaking down. Not everyone speaks the same language, and the games’ heady brew of nationalism, postcolonialism, and general political animus create an atmosphere conducive to bona fide international incidents. The Olympics has never been a particularly rich trash-talking venue, though. In a world where multimillionaire athletes and corrupt governing bodies make money hand-over-hand-over-fist, and the “sanctity of the game” seems to be drowning under a sea of cash, trash talk tells the viewer that the athlete authentically cares.
Trash talk is, by definition, disrespectful, and that’s why it’s great and unseemly at the same time. It signals a corruption of the pure, play-the-right-way ideals of athletic competition.
We can’t wait for USC and Rutgers to meet on the football field and see who leads after four quarters (and by how much).Trash talk is an elemental mode of expression because it springs from simple, universal feelings: anger, a thirst for revenge, and the ancient, instinctual desire to kick an opponent’s ass. “But ultimately, they’re just following in the footsteps of the great Rutgers University. “And people like UCLA and USC are followers. “We recognized that was the next frontier, that that needed to be done, that that was what was good for us. There are followers in life and there are leaders and when it comes to Rutgers, we lead,” Lalas said on the ‘State of the Union’ podcast.
“I will say this we are nothing if not trendsetters, when it comes to the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers, and that this has happened after Rutgers decided to grace the Big Ten…the ‘Big League’…with our presence should come as a surprise to no one. Our friends at Rutgers Wire - who are welcoming Trojans Wire to the Big Ten family - picked up a hilarious story in which Lalas wasted no time busting USC’s and UCLA’s chops. Alexi Lalas, a former American soccer star and a nationally-known soccer commentator, is an alumnus of Rutgers University.
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