She's too young to notice; she just turned three and while she's aware of the Blue Jackets and the Crew she can't yet differentiate between the sports, all of which are either soccer or tennis depending upon the day. I can't wait for the Olympics though.
Hey, don’t diss curling. It takes talent to use a broom and sweep the ice in front of a moving stone.
Not the way the IOC does it. I have HUGE problems with how Olympic boxing has been run for...just about all my life. It is also an edge case in that it is difficult to be 100% objective in determining, for example, if a punch legally landed or not. There are ways to mitigate the subjectivity of it, and the IOC chooses the wrong way pretty much every time.
I like the way you think. What's you're definition of a sport, by the way? Curious how it matches up against mine.
You will find that I am an excellent thinker. I'm going to have to disappoint you here. I don't think there's 'a' definition. The only constant is that what it is not is an endeavor where success depends entirely on the subjective whims of one or more judges proffering their opinion on the performance itself (as opposed to interpretation of constituent rules).
I actually do agree with this. I think it was the Barcelona games. There was a boxing match between an American and a Spaniard. The American clearly should have been the winner, and 2 of the 3 judges had the American winning by a wide margin, but a third judge (who I think was also Spanish) had the Spaniard winning. The official score was when all three judges "scored" a hit within a certain amount of time of each other. So the only scored punches were when the outlier judge said there was a score. No idea how they do it now of course. After that, I largely took your view that you need objective scoring for something to be a sport (despite my sister being a pretty accomplished gymnast).
Hey, gymnastics is some serious athletic shit. Just not a sport. Now, if you want to get really controversial, though, when you bring in Title IX, the fact that cheerleading is NOT considered a sport for the purposes of scholarship equality is some serious ********ing bullshit (of course along with the "pure count" interpretation that everyone uses which means that one sport that women only play as 0.0001% outliers necessitates that men have fewer sports at most, if not all universities [or you get loopholes like 20 schollys for women's crew where the coaches are literally grabbing girls off the quad to make up the inflated numbers]).
Hey. Just so when you log into BS the next time, you see this alert. I found those old interviews. I was not even looking for them, but I recovered my old "clbcrew" gmail to find something else somewhat Crew-related. Well here I come to find the interviews with you, @Sirk, @fidlerre, Foos, and a bunch of others. What a blast from the past. I thought I should share.
I was interviewed. I remember offering to buy Chelsey a beer and finding out she was then 19 or 20. Sorry about that