http://dudesonhockey.com/2006/02/27/olympic-sports/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=olympic-sports Two dudes blogging and podcasting about the San Jose Sharks, straight from sunny California. Fri, 18 May 2012 04:57:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://dudesonhockey.com/2006/02/27/olympic-sports/#comment-1998 Jeremy Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:18:00 +0000 http://dudesonhockey.com/2006/02/27/olympic-sports/#comment-1998 You surprise me with the auto racing comment. You've got to be physically fit, and more importantly mentally sharp for long stretches of time. But that can be a debate for later...<br/>I saw that Bryant Gumble got into some trouble for his discussion of the winter games as "sport". One of his criteria being that more than 200 people in the entire world participate at a high level (skeleton, luge, ice dancing). I think it comes down to the basic question: Is competition synonymous with sport? To me, the answer is no. And thus many events that are competitions are not sports. You surprise me with the auto racing comment. You’ve got to be physically fit, and more importantly mentally sharp for long stretches of time. But that can be a debate for later…
I saw that Bryant Gumble got into some trouble for his discussion of the winter games as “sport”. One of his criteria being that more than 200 people in the entire world participate at a high level (skeleton, luge, ice dancing). I think it comes down to the basic question: Is competition synonymous with sport? To me, the answer is no. And thus many events that are competitions are not sports.

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