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Author:  Mimi [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 16:26 ]
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Sport. It has a physical element.
Author:  markg [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 16:27 ]
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What about a sport like that fast walking where looking like a complete fucking pillock also creates a barrier to entry, thus limiting the pool of talent. Should they be allowed?
Author:  Squirt [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 16:28 ]
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Makes sense!

Things like snooker and darts are a bit of a grey area for me - I don't see any reason why they shouldn't be in the Olympics yet rifle shooting is.

Darts on Ice should clearly be in the Winter Olympics.
Author:  Zardoz [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 16:30 ]
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Chess is a musical.
Author:  markg [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 16:31 ]
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In a fantasy setting.
Author:  Mimi [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 16:35 ]
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Squirt wrote:
Makes sense!

Things like snooker and darts are a bit of a grey area for me - I don't see any reason why they shouldn't be in the Olympics yet rifle shooting is.

Darts on Ice should clearly be in the Winter Olympics.

Snooker and darts both akeca lot of physical skill in aiming and directing to pinpoint accuracy, so, to me, are sports. Poker and Chess I’ve heard described as sports, but there’s no physical element (the accuracy with which you centre your pieces in their squares or the ability to play annoying shuffling games with poker chips are not a physical element of play that account for your success of the game).
Author:  Mimi [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 16:35 ]
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Dartsing on ice/Ice Darts should SO be a thing.
Author:  DavPaz [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 16:35 ]
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So, how long until video games are in the Olympics?
Author:  RuySan [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 16:36 ]
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Squirt wrote:
Makes sense!

Things like snooker and darts are a bit of a grey area for me - I don't see any reason why they shouldn't be in the Olympics yet rifle shooting is.

Darts on Ice should clearly be in the Winter Olympics.


I had a physics teacher in college which invented all kinds of crazy sports on exams. I'm sure darts on ice was there somewhere.

At least i remember one about throwing oranges into a basket while wearing skiing paddles.

More on topic, agree that darts should be as much a sport as rifle shooting and golf. Which means none should be.

Also, why doesn't Summer Olympics doesn't include typical summer things like Surfing, Bodyboarding, Skimming, Beach Tennis and beach football? There's a very big pro-snow, anti-sand olympic bias.
Author:  Mimi [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 16:37 ]
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markg wrote:
What about a sport like that fast walking where looking like a complete fucking pillock also creates a barrier to entry, thus limiting the pool of talent. Should they be allowed?

You don’t walk that weird, Mark, even when you’re in a hurry, but I’m sorry you didn’t make the team.
Author:  RuySan [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 16:38 ]
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Mimi wrote:
Squirt wrote:
Makes sense!

Things like snooker and darts are a bit of a grey area for me - I don't see any reason why they shouldn't be in the Olympics yet rifle shooting is.

Darts on Ice should clearly be in the Winter Olympics.

Snooker and darts both akeca lot of physical skill in aiming and directing to pinpoint accuracy, so, to me, are sports. Poker and Chess I’ve heard described as sports, but there’s no physical element (the accuracy with which you centre your pieces in their squares or the ability to play annoying shuffling games with poker chips are not a physical element of play that account for your success of the game).


When a pro athlete has a belly, it means whatever he's doing isn't a sport, and he shouldn't be called an athlete. This should be a standard to be adopted by the Olympic Comitee from now on.
Author:  RuySan [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 16:39 ]
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And don't use Sumo as an excuse please
Author:  DavPaz [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 16:41 ]
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RuySan wrote:
When a pro athlete has a belly, it means whatever he's doing isn't a sport, and he shouldn't be called an athlete. This should be a standard to be adopted by the Olympic Comitee from now on.

Shot put.
Author:  MaliA [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 16:52 ]
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"Who can run the fastest" isn't a sport.
Author:  Zardoz [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 17:00 ]
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Weight lifting.
Author:  Zardoz [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 17:00 ]
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On ice.
Author:  Mimi [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 17:06 ]
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Snooker Luge(y nuts are we).

Hop, skip, ski jump.
Author:  Pundabaya [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 18:26 ]
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My views on sport:
It should have a physical element.
It should have clearly defined objective 'success' and 'failure'. For example: 'who jumps the highest wins' is fine. 'who jumps the most stylishly wins' is not.
Visual aspects such as clothing should have no effect on the outcome. If someone is dressed in non-traditional clothes that are safe to wear and decent, they should not be disqualified or be penalised.
It should not involve animals that may be distressed or injured by the sport, as they cannot consent to taking part.
The sport should have a put emphasis on human achievement.

So dressage is out on all counts. :P
Author:  romanista [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 19:08 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
Squirt wrote:
I like the bobsleigh / skelington / luge events, not least because I can imagine myself doing it and just screaming, non-stop, the entire way down.


I have been down a bobsleigh run and can confirm this is the best way to do it. That or gritting your teeth and hoping it all goes away soon.



I was in Lillehammer ('94 olympics) this summer, and went down with my daughter.. .it was amazing
ImageNoorwegen wat was je mooi by Rick Lindeman, on Flickr


ImageNoorwegen wat was je mooi by Rick Lindeman, on Flickr
Author:  MaliA [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 19:27 ]
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Wait. You can go down a bobsleigh track on a thing?
Author:  RuySan [ Fri Feb 09, 2018 20:12 ]
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I was in Lillehammer five years ago just for one night and did not thought much of the place. Maybe I should have explored more. That looks like fun
Author:  romanista [ Mon Feb 12, 2018 12:14 ]
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We had a lot of fun with katie couric decritpino of us as speedskaters which actually skate to get somewhere in the winter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMzUW0upLrw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o2FFhzVX-o

@mailA... yup it does, it goes fast... my daughter is 8 (so wasn't officially qualfied to go, but we talked ourselve in), and the lack of weight made it a bit bumpy..

@rutsan the village self is not that exciting.. even though it is a major norwegian tourist attraction with the post museum and the olympics museum and a big open air museum with old norwegian building.. but the bobsled and also standing on the skijumping track was quite impressive..
Author:  romanista [ Mon Feb 12, 2018 18:02 ]
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From twitter:

You'd have thought Britain would be doing better at the #WinterOlympics.

What with all its recent experience in going downhill fast.

(Oh Yeah. #Satire, people. Feel its bite).
Author:  Zardoz [ Mon Feb 12, 2018 18:04 ]
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That's cold.
Author:  Curiosity [ Mon Feb 12, 2018 19:30 ]
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Sounds like we’re going to cheat our way to some potential golds in the skeleton.

Fancy skin suits FTW!
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Feb 12, 2018 19:34 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
Sounds like we’re going to cheat our way to some potential golds in the skeleton.

Fancy skin suits FTW!


No body to rule against it, eh?
Author:  Sir Taxalot [ Tue Feb 13, 2018 5:14 ]
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What a humerus response.
Author:  romanista [ Tue Feb 13, 2018 13:42 ]
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(Says nothing)
Author:  myp [ Tue Feb 13, 2018 13:49 ]
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Duitsland isn't a real country. You've made this table up.
Author:  markg [ Tue Feb 13, 2018 13:52 ]
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NEDERLAND must be forrin for ENGERLAND or something.
Author:  Mr Dave [ Tue Feb 13, 2018 13:59 ]
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Teletext. How quaint.
Author:  GazChap [ Tue Feb 13, 2018 15:18 ]
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As someone learning taekwon-do, this particular Winter Olympics has special significance in that - assuming it's not just a "long game" ploy by Kim Jong-Un - there's some real indications that North and South Korea may not always be mortal enemies.

It's quite interesting seeing how excited a lot of the people Jem and I are acquainted with about this. I doubt it'll come to much, but it'd be pretty cool if it did.
Author:  romanista [ Tue Feb 13, 2018 15:28 ]
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Mr Dave wrote:
Teletext. How quaint.


Yes teletekst is actually still sort of widely used here, via the iPhone app or the website that is... it's just very fast and still has for this sort of result the best editorial people


And 'duitsland' (germany) has passed us again.. sort of inevitable since they compete in many more sports...
Author:  Sir Taxalot [ Tue Feb 13, 2018 23:22 ]
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Wait, Teletext (I prefer your name - the word 'teletekst' looks a bit cooler) through a smartphone app... a collision of worlds, old, modern :blown:
Author:  RuySan [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 10:26 ]
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So you're telling me the able Dutch people who somehow claimed a big chunk of the ocean to plant tulips, still use teletext?

:blown:
Author:  romanista [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:37 ]
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Yup, i think it was one of the first apps i installed on my phone;) just for reliable data, like football scores, obscure sports (like the live scores of the dutch baseball league) there is not a faster alternative, as long as they keep funding the people entering the data...

https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/nos-tel ... 46732?mt=8
Author:  DavPaz [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:39 ]
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So... it's an internet service? Not actual Teletext? Seems unusually restricted for no good reason
Author:  romanista [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:56 ]
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There is still official teletekst with all this... it is just published as well online/in the app..
Author:  RuySan [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:00 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
So... it's an internet service? Not actual Teletext? Seems unusually restricted for no good reason


It looks deliciously retro. That's a plus.
Author:  romanista [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 13:00 ]
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On the ‘what is a sports discussion’. Mr T likes curling. That makes it a sport imo

https://twitter.com/MrT/status/963573614153949184
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