Originally Posted by Cranker V2 There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. Animal cruelty debate aside, the point Hemingway was making is that a sport's not a sport unless you stand a fair chance of dying.
A wee bit reductive isn't it? Anyway, any fan of bull-fighting is not to be listened to. Much as I like Hemingway's writing, he was probably a bit of a testosterone-filled tosser.
What about an AntiOlympic Games .... The yard of ale run , pole dancing and tyre changing championship followed by......... bugger that sounds more like an 18 -30 holiday! Id like to see Dueling at dawn , the Snuff challenge , and pictionary version of "what the butler saw" ie have a peek and draw to your team .... winner gets a bag of cough candy.
Air Rifle at 10metres.......WTF is that? They could win just by poking the target with the end of the barrel on my rifle.....and all the cr*p they have on the gun and their head with the little diopter sights.....H*ll, they should be able to use open sights at that range. AL.
There is a story about Hemingway when he visited an area of the front in the Spanish Civil War that had ground to a halt where he fired off a volley from a machine gun in the general direction of the other side and promptly left, leaving those who had been around him to receive the mortar rounds that he had provoked. Good definition of a testosterone-filled tosser.
Anything with the word 'game' in it's title is not a sport generally. pure sport only includes one or more people involved, with no tools or other equipment needed, just their own physical ability.
Watched Women's Beach Volley Ball, the Womens Breast Stroke, and then having watched the weightlifing, the Mens Snatch..............it got me to thinking.........
