Try to man a sailing boat...It's a sport.
Shooting requires extreme concentration, not all sports are about lifting big things and running fast.
You don't know if he was doping, innocent until proven guilty.
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Try to man a sailing boat...It's a sport.
Shooting requires extreme concentration, not all sports are about lifting big things and running fast.
Sviatoslav
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I'd say co-favourite with american, Aries Merritt.
killer_clank
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Liu Xiang is cursed. After all the success of his team at the olympics, he just never seems to make it.
Liu Kang :lol
Why horse meat? Do British infuse their tea with EPO? ;p
Well, he won the Olympics in 2004, so I wouldn't say cursed. He obviously is unlucky since he always seems to injury himself before the Olympics, or maybe his body is just injury prone.
Or shooting balls into hoops, swimming, diving, throwing into nets etc. If people are going to make these arguments at least have a consistent and reasonable reason for dismissing certain activities.
Wafflecakes
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Anything is a sport then. Sorry but you have to draw the line somewhere. I draw it at any event where its primary mechanic is not powered by the physical body of a human.
Hey you - your subjective view is irrelevant. Listen to my subjective view instead.
i'd argue for more of a measurable thing - I find it difficult when artistic scores are given, but I do enjoy those sports. I don't think you can limit it to 'human powered' as then you are discounting human control
Wafflecakes
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Hey you. Can you read?
I never said his view was irrelevant. I strongly disagreed with his opinion then stated my own opinion.
Keep main shit up though to try to look clever.
Napoleonthechimp
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Kenny narrowly beat out Bauge on two occasions in front of a crowd cheering him on at an Olympics hosted in his own country, all the while benefitting from the best training and support that could be offerred. Bauge: Cheater!
Bauge sounds like a bit of a knob.
In Equestrian you can have the best horse of the world, but with a poor rider you end up last. I don't think you can say that the horse does more than the human. The human rider is what makes the horse so good. Point being, there aren't really good reasons to just dismiss a sport.
why can't they put sensors on the boxers' hats and bodies to detect hits?
Wafflecakes
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Human control would essentially say everything from nosepicking to chess to remote control car racing are sports.
As to artistic scores I agree there is a degree of uncertainty. Still very few medals...possibly none....are given just on that. Usually the vast majority of the medals are given to the person with greatest technical merit.
It's a very simple race where the goal is to finish first.
It's... a race. First person across the line wins.
The place where it gets confusing is given the nature of track cycling, lapping the pack is quite possible, so the leaders can be one or more laps ahead of the remainder.
It's just a straight forward race to the line. Almost like a road race. You get breakaways you have to cover and there's a sprint at the end.
Wafflecakes
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At the same time with a bad horse you could be the best rider in the world and never win anything. If the medal and prize money was split with the horse you could convince me *giggles
GroundCombo
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Maybe I'm easily amused, but I enjoy seeing people take pretty much any activity to its extreme limits. I don't care if it's sailing, speed stacking, origami or high jump - when I see the best of the best, I'm in awe of the skill and dedication that goes into it. With the Curiosity landing and the olympics, my head is about to explode from all the awesomeness going on.
More on topic, the hurdles have been VICIOUS today. It's like they have their own competition.
More on topic, the hurdles have been VICIOUS today. It's like they have their own competition.
Our riders eat their weetabix in the morning.
The following events should be removed from the Olympics:
- All equestrian events (especially Dressage)
- Modern Pentathlon
- Rythmic Gymnastics
- About 2 or 3 swimming distances in each stroke (we don't need 5 Freestyle distances)
- Swimming Individual Med. Relay
- Kerin in the track cycling
- Men's Trap Shooting (not the double trap)
- A couple of Canoeing/Kayaking sprints
Then the following need to be put in:
- 20/20 Cricket
- Rugby Sevens
- 60m Sprint (?)
- 5-a-side-football
- Squash
- Karate
- Baseball (a shorter form?)
discuss.
This would remove approx. 15-20 gold medal opportunities. I'm not just saying these sports because I'm British, we'd lose 2 or 3 golds through this
- All equestrian events (especially Dressage)
- Modern Pentathlon
- Rythmic Gymnastics
- About 2 or 3 swimming distances in each stroke (we don't need 5 Freestyle distances)
- Swimming Individual Med. Relay
- Kerin in the track cycling
- Men's Trap Shooting (not the double trap)
- A couple of Canoeing/Kayaking sprints
Then the following need to be put in:
- 20/20 Cricket
- Rugby Sevens
- 60m Sprint (?)
- 5-a-side-football
- Squash
- Karate
- Baseball (a shorter form?)
discuss.
This would remove approx. 15-20 gold medal opportunities. I'm not just saying these sports because I'm British, we'd lose 2 or 3 golds through this
Cycling is not a sport then.
zomgbbqftw
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First person to complete 60 laps wins. Trott is okayish at it, but her main rivals are worse and Trott is going to win the 500m sprint, coming second in the 3km pursuit was a big win for her as many expected third or fourth so she only picked up two points while the American is the world pursuit champion and was expected to win (which she did). Trott is probably ahead of her target for for 5 events, and has a very good shot at gold after coming second in the pursuit.
That and Idohu still doesn't seem fit and Dai Green yesterday. Why so many unfit athletes. Bad luck I suppose.
Wafflecakes
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Bicycles are powered by human strength. Sail boats and horses are not.
Fuck me.. we were behind by SIX goals. People were readying their pitchforks here, practically condemning the team, and they come back from six behind. Some voodoo shit there, great goalkeeping. Semis, baby.
Sail boats are *steered* by human strength. The canoe rapids aren't powered by strength, either, that's handled by the water; the strength is in the steering.
zomgbbqftw
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First big fail for Team GB, Idowu out of the Triple Jump. What a let-down. 
If the humans in the sail boat don't pick the right wind the boat won't be that fast. It all comes down to tactics and reading the course. Besides that you have to be in quite the shape to handle a boat. This is a very silly argument you know
I'm so salty right now, haha. Can't believe we lost that.
zomgbbqftw
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Someone has never been sailing before...
First big fail for Team GB, Idowu out of the Triple Jump. What a let-down.
first big fail?In athletics or in general?
Cause I remember the GB road cyclists getting Vinokouroved and the Women's track cyclists getting DQ'd.
So why are sailors all buff men?
There is a phrase called 'Training smart' they aren't doing that it looks like.
There are many aspects of sailing powered by human strength. Raising and lowering sails, trapezing, sail pumping etc. A lot of effort is needed to make a dinghy go anywhere.
Wafflecakes
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So are cars.
*For the record sailing is just iffy for me. It's shooting and equestrian that really annoy me. Sailing is just meh torn.
zomgbbqftw
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Athletics.
The pole vault yesterday wasn't really a success.
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