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Ice dancing / figure skating is not sport

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  • P PIEBALDconsult

    Way more of a sport than auto racing is. X|

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    At least with motor racing there is a clear winner - the guy who went across the line first (assuming no rule infringements). There is no "Artistic Impression" element which is subjective and thus not measurable. If you allow that you could end up with something like Synchronised Swimming being a sport! :laugh: Synchronised Swimming is a sport? :omg: Are you sure? :wtf: Oh damn.

    You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy

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      RyanEK wrote:

      I believe a sport is where two or more people are in competition

      Yeah, I like warcraft, unreal tournament, and even mario kart! now, those are nice sports, don't you agree? Ah, and I did like that on the judges, now I can talk about football (soccer), in fact between more judges a game requires the less you can trust it, why do they need the judges otherwise?. And style points? what's that?!? my life is free from anything with style points. I often find hard to tell if something is art, sport, game or just a kill-time. But for game and kill-time there are more formal definitions, as the in game it has two or more people and one wins at the end. In the kill-time, it's wathever you do alone for your joy... I think :rolleyes:. Ahem... So most sports are games, but are games sports? Now, what about chess, they say it's a sport, isn't it?

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      Next, you'll be telling me dwarf tossing isn't a sport

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        RyanEK wrote:

        I believe a sport is where two or more people are in competition Smile

        But this is obviously invalidated if any participant wears makeup or sparkly clothes.

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        Bergholt Stuttley Johnson
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        Josh Gray wrote:

        But this is obviously invalidated if any participant wears makeup

        so football(soccer) isnt a sport! now that I can agree on

        Go away and research the subject, analyze the options for and against, understand the problem and them come back when you agree with me.

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        • R RyanEK

          Next, you'll be telling me dwarf tossing isn't a sport

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          it definitely sounds like it might transgress the KSS rule.

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          • P PIEBALDconsult

            Way more of a sport than auto racing is. X|

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            True, they don't even have to read a map. Wait, it's men :laugh:

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            • L Lost User

              I mean really, they're skilled, fit, they've practiced their arses off but this[^] is no more a sport than ballet is.

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              How can you say that?[^]

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              • C Christian Graus

                What about that thing where chicks skate next to some weight and rub the ice to make it go faster ? Curling ? Hurling ? I forget.

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                Zhat
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                If they wore bikinis...THAT would be sport! :laugh:

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                • R RyanEK

                  Next, you'll be telling me dwarf tossing isn't a sport

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                  I think of it as a hobby.

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    At least with motor racing there is a clear winner - the guy who went across the line first (assuming no rule infringements). There is no "Artistic Impression" element which is subjective and thus not measurable. If you allow that you could end up with something like Synchronised Swimming being a sport! :laugh: Synchronised Swimming is a sport? :omg: Are you sure? :wtf: Oh damn.

                    You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy

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                    OriginalGriff wrote:

                    There is no "Artistic Impression" element which is subjective and thus not measurable.

                    Well if Nascar was more like a demolition derby we'd have room for style points; but for some reason they tend to frown on giant crashes. :-\

                    3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

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                      OriginalGriff wrote:

                      There is no "Artistic Impression" element which is subjective and thus not measurable.

                      Well if Nascar was more like a demolition derby we'd have room for style points; but for some reason they tend to frown on giant crashes. :-\

                      3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

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                      Dan Neely wrote:

                      Well if Nascar was more like a demolition derby we'd have room for style points

                      Should be more like Burnout - then I'll allow style points! :laugh:

                      You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy

                      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                      "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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