Let them. They’re too far into the route of “being politically correct and not offending anyone (but us💀)” that there’s no way we’re changing their minds. It’s hilarious though.
Take a look at this clip and tell me this isn’t insane athleticism at work. Btw, both of these young ladies were at the Olympics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmROSBKEj5E
I tend to hold a personal belief that if it can’t be determined objectively who wins, it isn’t a fair contest and therefore isn’t a sport. It isn’t measurable in a fair way, no matter the number of judges, as the judges themselves become an external factor unrelated to the skill and performance of the person doing the work.
There’s lots of impressive styles of dancing, in water, on skates, on strange arbitrary gym equipment, on horses, and they can be entertaining and require high degrees of skill, effort and training, but they aren’t “sports” as much as they are “performing arts”.
I await the pitchforks as this post becomes more of a sport readily measured than any of that dancing.
Fouls in basketball are subjective, does that make it not a sport? There are many subjective elements to sport officiating that undermine such a black-and-white classification.
Why is synchronized swimming or figure skating a sport but not this?
Surely you’re not putting the athleticism and mental agility of figure skating in the same conversation as breakdancing…
Let them. They’re too far into the route of “being politically correct and not offending anyone (but us💀)” that there’s no way we’re changing their minds. It’s hilarious though.
such hypocrisy. There’s plenty of established Olympic sports that wouldn’t pass your purity test if they were new.
Sometimes I need to remind myself this is reddit and the average user hasn’t competed in anything but video games their entire life.
I can speak for football because I played football until 14 when smth happened but again when smth is TERRIBLY bad anyone can speak on it. 😂
tell me you didn’t watch the breaking competition without telling me you didn’t watch the breaking competition.
I saw a kid kick a ball against a wall outside and it hit him in the face. I can’t believe football is an Olympic sport, how stupid.
I absolutely am and I see no reason not to.
Take a look at this clip and tell me this isn’t insane athleticism at work. Btw, both of these young ladies were at the Olympics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmROSBKEj5E
I tend to hold a personal belief that if it can’t be determined objectively who wins, it isn’t a fair contest and therefore isn’t a sport. It isn’t measurable in a fair way, no matter the number of judges, as the judges themselves become an external factor unrelated to the skill and performance of the person doing the work.
There’s lots of impressive styles of dancing, in water, on skates, on strange arbitrary gym equipment, on horses, and they can be entertaining and require high degrees of skill, effort and training, but they aren’t “sports” as much as they are “performing arts”.
I await the pitchforks as this post becomes more of a sport readily measured than any of that dancing.
Fouls in basketball are subjective, does that make it not a sport? There are many subjective elements to sport officiating that undermine such a black-and-white classification.
Or dressage