Good silver for KJT last night, her first Olympic medal
Good silver for KJT last night, her first Olympic medal
Ok I’ve reached my limit of what constitutes a sport
Anything that needs to be accompanied by music is not a sport
For real. That ridiculous, blaring music every time there's a break in the activity, as if people are incapable of figuring out something else will happen soon. It's almost as irritating as Paula Ratcliffe's voice.Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
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I saw someone say something similar on FB. If it needs a DJ then it probably isn't a sport.
Same conversation we had the other day. I like things like diving actually and I can appreciate the skill. But any sport which needs judges to say how nicely you did it...
Apparently squash is having a go in 2028. I have mixed feelings about that. It's the only sport I've ever been good at - dad played and taught me, I played a lot in my teens and 20s.
But it's not that good a spectator sport. I think the ball is just a bit too small for TV and moves too fast, it's hard to follow.
It is and it comes round to excluding boxing if you are determining that subjective judgement excludes the sport
For me sport is physical competition and therefore technically break dancing or whatever else can fit into that mould.
It’s I guess always going to be a balance between not being too exclusive and letting silly stuff count as Olympic event
In some ways I’m inclined to be more for stuff like skateboarding, climbing etc than I am football, tennis and golf being involved. Mainly because they are sports that stand up in their own rights. Let Athletes and other events have their day for the fortnight.
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At least in climbing there's objective measures of who won - with speed climbing it's a race, there's the other type our bloke got a gold in where you have to get as high as you can without falling.
Debatable whether it's a sport really but there's a lot of grey areas.
You're right about boxing, to me it's clearly a sport but you're right in that it's judged. Difficult, innit?
I guess if horse dancing and dancing in water (synchro) can be sports then why not human dancing (to which my answer would be none of them should be in!)
The Madison be like:
Bronze in the 1500m. Good run
Bronze in the 4x400 relay. Another good run.
High jump went to penalties, New Zealand bloke won
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