Comment on Quite a poor performance imo, lower than expected

• TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I see we’re gatekeeping sports now lol

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  • StopJoiningWars@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    To be fair, people call chess a sport, and then there’s e-sports. Neither fit with the definition of physical exertion.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And neither are sports, just because some people can do it professionally doesn’t mean it’s a sport.

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      • StopJoiningWars@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Gotta agree with that.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If Alexis Lagan and Katelyn Abeln can compete 1v1 in the same category then I’m sorry to inform you that physical fitness isn’t a criteria for whatever the competition is and we’re not talking about a sport.

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• stormdelay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is archery not a sport then? Or say, golf?

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Someone has never pulled a bowstring before

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    • prayer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So archery is a sport because it requires effort, but the effort isn’t the part that makes archery hard? Olympic archers don’t struggle with pulling the bowstring, they struggle with aiming the bow to get fractions of a point.

      If they ran a lap in between shots during the shooting sports would you call that a sport?

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    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have, quite a lot, and I would hardly classify the act as particularly athletic.

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• abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It does require phisical skill. You have to aim, perfect hand eye coordination, muscle memory, breath control. A sport doesn’t require a full body workout, if it did than bob sleighing or dressage or table tennis wouldn’t be sports either. Sport is about physical fitness but also about teamwork, competition, perseverance and much more.

  It’s like saying deathmetal isn’t music, because you can’t understand the words they sing.

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• FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m sorry not every sport is pure ugga bugga, ape strong, and some instead require brain skills or precision.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Should they be considered sports then?

    noun plural noun: sports 1. an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. “team sports such as baseball and soccer”

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    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      it can also mean

      An activity providing diversion, entertainment, or fun; a pastime.

      according to the oxford english dictionary

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• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  shooting, darts, snooker, curling, boules, golf, archery, driving/car racing, horse riding, sailing, luge/skeleton, croquet, motorboat racing, table tennis, weight lifting, gliding, skiing, alpinism, ballooning, chess, firefighting, cannon shooting, kite flying, pigeon racing, military patrol, dog-sled racing, bridge, lifeguarding, scuba diving have all been part of modern day Olympics.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And of this list there’s a whole bunch of stuff that isn’t a sport.

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      sport is a contractive ellision of disport, from the Latin desport meaning “to carry away,” i.e. a pastime in which you get carried away, or a game with equipment you can carry around.

      All dictionaries describe sports as games of athleticism and/or skill.

      If you get too prescriptive of your definition then things like running, swimming, karate aren’t sports because they don’t have equipment you can carry, or if shooting has no “athleticism”, wouldn’t it be fair to say that the 100m dash has no particular “skill” and thus is also not a sport.

      If that sounds too ridiculous, maybe you should reconsider your position.

      Have you also considered Diogenes’ “Behold - A Man!” when trying to define sports?

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    • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You’re whole “not a sport” argument is kind of messed up by the fact it’s an Olympic sport, soooo idk

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      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        So painting is a sport?

        …wikipedia.org/…/Art_competitions_at_the_Summer_O…

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    • YeetPics@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You’re proving that reading comprehension is a sport in which you are terrible.

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