very much so, this section has stuck in my noggin for some reason...

In one of his observer TV reviews:

Ski Sunday

The activities in Ski Sunday (BBC) were likewise blessed
with the redeeming presence of David Vine. The venue
was Finland, the event was the 70-metre ski jump, and
David had equipped himself with yet another new line
in priapic dialogue. 'Got good hang,’ David would intone,
as a jumper standing horizontally to attention with a ski-
tip in each nostril went sailing down the valley. The really
important thing for a jumper was to have good hang. There
was no point having the explosion if you did not have "good
hang".

'There’s the explosion!’ David would cry as the jumper
launched himself into the void. 'Hang, hang, hang . . . and
that is long, Kokkonen had extremely good hang and ex-
ploded enormously, but the man I liked was the one who lost a ski on the way down and had to choose between landing on the leg with the ski or the leg without. He chose the leg without— a huge error.

RIP Clive

Posted By: Tombs on November 27th 2019 at 17:37:50

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