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Post by pErvinalia » Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:58 am

All the sports I want to watch occur in precise couple of hour blocks, and are over in a day, two at most. Fucking figure skating, though, it's been on for 3 or 4 days now and it doesn't show any signs of stopping. WTF?! Who watches that shit? Surely they could get it done with in an hour and then we don't have to see any more non-sports events at the games.
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Re: Winter Olympics 2018

Post by cronus » Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:35 am

pErvinalia wrote:All the sports I want to watch occur in precise couple of hour blocks, and are over in a day, two at most. Fucking figure skating, though, it's been on for 3 or 4 days now and it doesn't show any signs of stopping. WTF?! Who watches that shit? Surely they could get it done with in an hour and then we don't have to see any more non-sports events at the games.
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Re: Winter Olympics 2018

Post by JimC » Mon Feb 19, 2018 5:04 am

I feel an icy disdain for the whole damn thing..
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Re: Winter Olympics 2018

Post by Svartalf » Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:45 am

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Post by Rum » Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:48 am

I concur with the above two gentlemen!

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Post by rachelbean » Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:12 am

Figure skating is the only part of the Winter Olympics I tune in for, so that's who :hehe:
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Post by rainbow » Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:37 am

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Re: Winter Olympics 2018

Post by Hermit » Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:46 am

pErvinalia wrote:All the sports I want to watch occur in precise couple of hour blocks, and are over in a day, two at most. Fucking figure skating, though, it's been on for 3 or 4 days now and it doesn't show any signs of stopping. WTF?! Who watches that shit? Surely they could get it done with in an hour and then we don't have to see any more non-sports events at the games.
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Post by pErvinalia » Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:56 am

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Re: Winter Olympics 2018

Post by Scot Dutchy » Mon Feb 19, 2018 12:21 pm

Any "sport" that requires subjective judges to determine who has won is not a sport. Figure skating is definitely not a sport but entertainment and should not be part of the olympics.
Why do they give style marks to ski-jumping? The Olympic Motto is: "Faster, Higher, Stronger". Nothing about prettier.
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Re: Winter Olympics 2018

Post by Hermit » Mon Feb 19, 2018 12:26 pm

Scot Dutchy wrote:Any "sport" that requires subjective judges to determine who has won is not a sport. Figure skating is definitely not a sport but entertainment and should not be part of the olympics.
Why do they give style marks to ski-jumping? The Olympic Motto is: "Faster, Higher, Stronger". Nothing about prettier.
If you add "Smarter" to the motto, chess is a sport. No subjective judges required to determine who has won.
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Re: Winter Olympics 2018

Post by Scot Dutchy » Mon Feb 19, 2018 12:30 pm

Hermit wrote:
Scot Dutchy wrote:Any "sport" that requires subjective judges to determine who has won is not a sport. Figure skating is definitely not a sport but entertainment and should not be part of the olympics.
Why do they give style marks to ski-jumping? The Olympic Motto is: "Faster, Higher, Stronger". Nothing about prettier.
If you add "Smarter" to the motto, chess is a sport. No subjective judges required to determine who has won.
Is it an Olympic sport though? How about snakes and ladders? Tiddlywinks anyone? There are international tiddlywinks tournaments and nothing subjective there.
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Post by laklak » Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:18 pm

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Re: Winter Olympics 2018

Post by Forty Two » Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:37 pm

I'm not a fan of the subjective judging sports. The trick-skiing, figure skating and snowboarding stuff should not be Olympic sports, IMO. But, other people like them, so that's fine for them. In the summer olympics, gymnastics is like that. I think you really have to consider them "sports" but they just aren't my preferred type. Sport really is any physical activity which amounts to a competition among participants, whether individually or as a team, where the physical activity is the focus of the competition.

Chess would not be a "sport" because the physical exertion of moving a chess piece is incidential. It's not a competition as to who moves chess pieces faster or better. It's game of skill and strategy.

Figure skating is, indeed, a sport, because it's physical exertion is the focus of the competition. It's who is the better skater, under the rules of that competition.
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Re: Winter Olympics 2018

Post by pErvinalia » Tue Feb 20, 2018 12:02 am

Fark, figure skating is on again today. Just fuck the fuck off!
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