The best sporting moment outside football: [video=youtube;bpeBugHSCnU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpeBugHSCnU[/video]
It's a parlour game, Mex Like pool and darts. No little skill required (I know cos I'm really crap at these table games and an average darts player at best for my 'local' team) but not a sport....
It is quite difficult to classify pasttimes like snooker, pool and darts. There is no doubt about the skill required - but where is the dividing line between a game pure and simple and a sport - somehow sport seems to need physical activity - more than walking round a table and yet fishing and motor racing are regarded as sports.
Leo, the amount of training that an F1 driver has to do to be fit enough to cope with g-forces they face on some corners meant that Mark Webber was able to do triathlons which I believe his successor at Red Bull, Daniel Ricciardo, also does.
Oh I know F1 drivers are about the fittest in any sport - the G forces they have to cope with means they need to be very strong. Years ago there was a programme on telly with various celebrities from different sports competing against each other and the F1 drivers did incredibly well.
Leo, I'm old enough to remember Superstars - Brian Jacks doing squat thrusts, Kevin Keegan falling off his bike etc.
Brial Jacks was super-human! An amazing guy! [video=youtube;WFh-nbGZnsc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFh-nbGZnsc[/video]
Thanks Barry - I just could not remember what it was called - but I was right wasn't I in thinking F1 drivers did pretty well
Just driven home past a very large lake that was drained and then re-stocked with fish last autumn. Today the banks had lots of people fishing hoping to catch their supper. Is this a sport? It is described as one when people talk about the numbers of people who do it. Plenty of competitions take place, so it is people testing their skill against others.
Sky show it so it must be........ I believe that a chap called Bob Nudd was rather good at it and one year the angling lobby tried to gert him to win BBC Sports personality of the Year - didn't work of course!
I used to do a lot of fishing in Oz, mainly off the beach but sometimes on weekend trips to the Barrier Reef. I never viewed it as a sport, simply an enjoyable pastime that involved beer and occasionally ended up with a tasty feed.
I would be very interested to find a definition of 'sport', because we also use the expression 'competitive sport' thereby implying that there may also be such a thing as a non competitive sport. Is mountaineering a sport for example - the levels of fitness required exceeding those of most 'sports'. I am testing myself here not against other people but rather against natural elements. Does a sport have to be competitive ? Another question is do humans have to be taking part to be called a sport - Is e.g. greyhound racing a sport ?
