In your wildest dreams. :lol:
I think some people get confused when the amount of physical exertion is low. When I was a kid shooting marbles was a sport.
63 year old and 52 year old "athletes" at the Commonwealth Games
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In your wildest dreams. :lol:
I think some people get confused when the amount of physical exertion is low. When I was a kid shooting marbles was a sport.
Now i suppose we have to define what "active means. So far as I am concerned it is something that requires a certain level of physical fitness and physical exertion. In other words, sedately rolling a ball across a lawn does not qualify.
By that definition you could get a workout pushing the buttons on the TV remote control.
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Attaining, improving, or maintaining the function of your body sums it up for me. And even something people view as so 'simple' as lawn bowling serves to meet the criteria of activity, exercise, 'sport'. And it falls well within the mandate of the Commonwealth Games.
"As a means of improving society and the general well being of the people of the Commonwealth, the CGF also encourages and assists education via sport development and physical recreation.
Underlying every decision made by the CGF are three core values: - HUMANITY - EQUALITY - DESTINY. These values help to inspire and unite millions of people and symbolise the broad mandate of the CGF within the Commonwealth. "
Attaining, improving, or maintaining the function of your body sums it up for me. And even something people view as so 'simple' as lawn bowling serves to meet the criteria of activity, exercise, 'sport'. And it falls well within the mandate of the Commonwealth Games.
"As a means of improving society and the general well being of the people of the Commonwealth, the CGF also encourages and assists education via sport development and physical recreation.
Underlying every decision made by the CGF are three core values: - HUMANITY - EQUALITY - DESTINY. These values help to inspire and unite millions of people and symbolise the broad mandate of the CGF within the Commonwealth. "
physical excertion at a certain level does not 'make' a sport, one can put all of their physical
energy into shovelling snow.
The competition is the key, the participation, and the desire to do well, it is not important if
we think it is a sport or not, that seems to differ between a few people.
If one has a tiddly wink team, and goes into a big competition with other tiddly wink teams, and
the competition is high, and the competetive juices are flowing, it is a sport, and if a lawn
bowling team does the same, it is a sport, it's not all about throwing your body all over the place
or huffing and puffing, it's about competition.
If one person wants to call something a game, and another calls it a sport, who cares.
Sport is about sportsmanship.
energy into shovelling snow.
The competition is the key, the participation, and the desire to do well, it is not important if
we think it is a sport or not, that seems to differ between a few people.
If one has a tiddly wink team, and goes into a big competition with other tiddly wink teams, and
the competition is high, and the competetive juices are flowing, it is a sport, and if a lawn
bowling team does the same, it is a sport, it's not all about throwing your body all over the place
or huffing and puffing, it's about competition.
If one person wants to call something a game, and another calls it a sport, who cares.
Sport is about sportsmanship.
Sport and govt taxes a situation, pun intended. There is a spectrum of what contstitutes a sport, and it is not clear cut. I have no problem with the govt funding sports that take little effort, but not for third rate events like the Commonwealth Games that reqiore tens of thousands to send senior citizens across the globe.
Ping pong is more of a sport than shuffleboard because it is more intense, it requires a degree of skill, movement and judgement that a more stationary game like shuffleboard does not. We understand the word sport to mean movement and action. Poker is not a sport because you're sitting.
Shuffleboard, darts, bowling and lawn bowling are sports, but with low intensity levels. Hockey, football, basketball, soccer, wrestling I put at the opposite end of the combat-invasive spectrum. Most other sports fit in-between like tennis, swimming, track and field, rowing, triathalon.
Ping pong is more of a sport than shuffleboard because it is more intense, it requires a degree of skill, movement and judgement that a more stationary game like shuffleboard does not. We understand the word sport to mean movement and action. Poker is not a sport because you're sitting.
Shuffleboard, darts, bowling and lawn bowling are sports, but with low intensity levels. Hockey, football, basketball, soccer, wrestling I put at the opposite end of the combat-invasive spectrum. Most other sports fit in-between like tennis, swimming, track and field, rowing, triathalon.
I beg to differ on that, shuffle requires not only a more accurate shot than ping pong, but considerable more judgment is required for the speed of the shot. Ping pong requires more speed but shuffleboard requires more of all the other attributes. As I said before when we were kids shooting marbles was a sport, so there obviously isn't much that doesn't qualify as a sport.
Shuffleboard is lawn bowling on a table. Give me a break!!! And ping-pong requires way more quicker judgement that shuffleboard. Speed is important here.
Marbles is not a sport. I call it lazy English. Just because people call something a sport, doesn't mean it is. Just like calling a 63 year old is an athlete is not so. However, you can call a senior citizens athletes or playing with little glass objects sports, but don't ask me to pay for it. But this lazy English justitfies dated events like the CW Games because bureaucrats tend to agree with the public, if the public calls a game a sport, then it might get money.
The solution here, Canada ought to dump the monarcy, leave the Commonwealth and Francophonie. Modest economic growth means dated organizations have to be chucked on the historical junk pile. Europe and Latin America ought to be our priorities.
Lawn bowling, curling, golf, billiards, darts et al are games, not sports and the participants are not "athletes" because you do not need to be physically fit to excel at them. That being said, the Commonwealth games and the Olympics stopped being about sports long ago (and that's not necessarily a bad thing).