hedwards: LOL, you're one to talk. BTW, how much credibility does the IOC have left after they let Russia have the Olympics recently? Russia has a terrible human rights record and it's getting worse.
MarioFanaticXV: Not sure what that has to do with whether or not something is a sport... Also, I always laugh when people complain about Russia holding the Olympics, but never say anything about
China or Germany (and mind you, I'm talking about the Berlin Olympics... You know, back during the Hitler era)?
We know better now. The Holocaust hadn't yet happened when Germany hosted and if we were adhering to the standard at the time nobody would have gotten the Olympics. Times change.
As far as
China goes, I've been to
China and it's not anywhere near as bad as you seem to think. In fact I liked it so much that I'm going back there. There are a few things you can't talk about, but people
China doesn't turn a blind eye to random murders of journalists. What's more the head of
China isn't a spook with a dodgy history.
In case you're wondering, this is why you have no credibility.
What I really don't get is why things like Chess and Poker and Starcraft need to be sports in order to be legitimate. Seems to me that rather than trying to join the jocks, people ought to be focused on removing the stigmatism from gaming.
MarioFanaticXV: So you think only jocks should be allowed to have sports? That's a rather... High school clique-ish mindset...
Yes, they damn well ought to. Jocks are generally defined by being involved in sports. Perhaps to an unhealthy extent.
Nobody with any sense is going to suggest that there isn't a lot of pressure or that being in shape isn't going to help one compete, but it's stretching the definition of sports a bit too far to include things where there is not actual physical activity like some folks in here want to do.
MarioFanaticXV: And it's rather narrow to try and reduce the definition of a sport to only something that is physically straining.
Except when somebody like Mario gets on my nerves. Sometimes I do get a bit kitten with a mouse.
MarioFanaticXV: I'm sorry if you can't respect those with hobbies that differ from your own. Unlike you, I can- I respect the swimmers, runners... On that note, I find MOST sports very boring. But if someone is skilled at something, I don't try to berate them just because their tastes are different from mine.
Oh please, it's got nothing to do with your hobbies, it's the fact that you're making shit arguments that's at issue here. If you're going to rely upon the IOC's definition of sport to prop up your ill-conceived of view, then you'd damn well be ready to have somebody point out that the IOC cares far more about money than purity of sports.
