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Sue Purcell

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  1. We're all going to Dai! Intermittent moderate snow in South Ceredigion; some heavier stuff to come from the looks of it. You'd hardly say it was getting milder, but definitely not so raw and unpleasant outside as it was 12 hours ago.
  2. Bumped as promised! The Connors book is out now but I couldn't see anything about the lightning incident in the index or leafing through the pages in the bookstore. Perhaps a tennis fan here will buy it and report back?
  3. This thread should get bumped in just over a year - Connors' memoirs are due 6 June 2013! http://www.amazon.co...38251145&sr=1-1
  4. There are countless articles on the internet about Connors and tennis in the '80s. I'm not talking about viral videos. Anyway, I found this: http://aeltc2011.wimbledon.com/125th-championships/history/championships-snapshots/centre-court-lightning.html I suspect the Weather Watch makers conflated the 1985 Wimbledon storm with the (possibly enhanced) Connors footage and because it was just a throwaway tongue-in-cheek 10-minute programme didn't think anyone would notice or care .
  5. It certainly resembles a streamer, albeit an unusually photogenic one, but it is odd that something so unusual happening to someone so famous and apparently caught on camera doesn't have any internet presence at all. Coupled with the obvious "Wimbledon" error, it does seem a bit fishy.
  6. Coincidentally, I just came across that episode (as well as the tornadoes one) in the course of transferring my old videos to DVD. Apart from it not being at Wimbledon, as (Mr_Data pointed out earlier) that Jimmy Connors lightning strike has to be fake, surely? First off, there's no mention of it elsewhere on the internet, and secondly wouldn't there have been a more violent effect on Connors, physically and psychologicaly, especially as I think he was using a metal racquet ahead of most other players at the time. Wouldn't the game have been abandoned straight away? Again, no mention on the internet. I have a vague memory that there might have been a storm during the match and that there was a nearby strike and practically simultaneous crack of thunder, and Connors deliberately let go of his racquet out of self-preservation as an instantaneous reaction to that.
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