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 Post subject: Re: Pjongsjang Olympics
PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 16:26 
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Sport. It has a physical element.

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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?


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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.


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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).

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Dartsing on ice/Ice Darts should SO be a thing.

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So, how long until video games are in the Olympics?


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 Post subject: Re: Pjongsjang Olympics
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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.


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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?

You don’t walk that weird, Mark, even when you’re in a hurry, but I’m sorry you didn’t make the team.

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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.

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.


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And don't use Sumo as an excuse please


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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.


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"Who can run the fastest" isn't a sport.

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On ice.

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Snooker Luge(y nuts are we).

Hop, skip, ski jump.

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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


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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
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 Post subject: Re: Pjongsjang Olympics
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Wait. You can go down a bobsleigh track on a thing?

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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


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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

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@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..

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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).

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That's cold.

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Sounds like we’re going to cheat our way to some potential golds in the skeleton.

Fancy skin suits FTW!

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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?

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What a humerus response.

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Duitsland isn't a real country. You've made this table up.

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NEDERLAND must be forrin for ENGERLAND or something.


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Teletext. How quaint.


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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.


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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...

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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:

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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?

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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

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So... it's an internet service? Not actual Teletext? Seems unusually restricted for no good reason


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There is still official teletekst with all this... it is just published as well online/in the app..

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So... it's an internet service? Not actual Teletext? Seems unusually restricted for no good reason


It looks deliciously retro. That's a plus.


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On the ‘what is a sports discussion’. Mr T likes curling. That makes it a sport imo

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