oh god!

[1rovert]

English archers defeated by the French.

What is happening to our England??

OH THE SHAME OF IT.

I know that this should be with sport, but no seems to read it.

[tiggerblue10]

Well there were several wars between the French and English where archery was used so your question could be historical! Lol

[Ice.Maiden]

Suppose it comes down to the French knowing their onions then.....

[terambulan]

Nicole Cooke won Gold in cycling........and she's Welsh!

[dannyday5821]

aw come im curious now! historically who were the better archers? british or french? ive got a feeling it might be us brits! of course im guessing!

[tiggerblue10]

The battle of Againcourt was won by the English using the English Longbow danny. It was used widely during The Hundred Years war.

[tiggerblue10]

Ooops! I meant Agincourt.

[Ice.Maiden]

Tigger's right - so it's one-all now! Lol - only one more game for the decider!

[stewey]

I think that the French are quite renowned for giving a bow: 1914-1918 and 1939-1945.

[dundurn]

If you include Crecy and Poitiers, you're 3-1 up. Maybe you need to go back to the original rules, where you get to shoot at the other competitors!

[dundurn]

Just had another thought ( a bit like the cycling gold) I think the English got the longbow from the Welsh!

[fredpuli47]

All very disturbing. Thirteen of the teams had Korean coaches (and there's the US worrying about Korea having nuclear weapons!) and our top woman was outpointed by an American from Georgia (and not Georgia USA).Should definitely have the opponents dressed in heavy armour and on horseback and our lot shooting at them first, to even the contest up a bit.

[jobplease]

Our advantage over the french was the longbow that could fire about six arrows in a minute whilst the french were still using the crossbow that was accurate but took along time to reload compared to a bow. Also at agincourt the french had alot of cavalry which gave the advantage to the archers because they had bigger targets.

[WoWo]

The reason the French used the crossbow was that it was easy to use and therefore they didn't have to go to the expense of having a standing army full of archers.

However the crossbow was not that great at a longer distance and as said took a relative age to reload.

[saxy_jag]

Chop off their bow-fingers, say I, and up yours, you Frenchies!

[scotgal]

And what about poor King Harold shot though the eye with an arrow. Our ancestors came across the channel with William the Conqueror and were the bowmen.

[Bazile]

Quite

And the best of it is that we are the nation that had Robin Hood - where are his decendants - haven't the genes been passed on ?