It's good that it was not one of the players.

 

Why not? It would be a good strategy to distract the opposing players when they're doing their brushing thing.

 

If I ever become a famous curling athelete...my parents will be ashamed and would ask me to find a real job.

Ummm....can we really use that term athelete for the performers of the curling event?

From my engineering point of view, an athelete is not just a skilled operator of his or her own field, he or she is strong in physique as energy, force, power, speed, and agility are often associated to a performance. Look at marathon, sprinting, swimming, soccer, skiing, skating, etc.

So....to me curling is just a skilled performance, not an atheletic sports. Someone hired Jack Abramoff, lobbied to the olympic comittee succeffully, and conviced them that curling is a sports.

Perhaps jerking off would become an olympic sports and I would win a gold medal. I was an undisputed champ during high school days.

 

"Find a real job?" Can someone actually make a living playing curling?

The players generally look to be in better shape than pro golfers. I'm not sure why, but there seems to be a lack of fatsos in curling.

A sport yes. Athlete? Maybe not. It's like archery, skeet shooting, fishing, girl watching, etc. These and curling are sports where you can have a hot dog and beer waiting on the side lines when your turn is over.

 

I tried watching curling this once but can't do it. I think I would have to be way beyond trashed to stand it. I thought watching Golf was bad, but this takes the cake.

 

WAY TOO much information. Did you compete? Was it a team sport? How were you judged? Who keeps score?

 

Is Bowling a sport? Golf? Marlin or Bass fishing? All go well with beer. Although your performance usually suffers.

 

Yes, they're all sports. However, you don't have to be an athlete to participate in them.

 

Fishing is not a sport. It is a sport to....ummm mostly white people in the US. Of course it is a sport to those who sell products and services, they don't have any problem calling fishing and hunting a sport as long as they make money.

C'mon...throw some ice water on yourselves, wake up, and think twice without prejudice. Fishing and hunting can never be an athletic event to qualify as sports.

Back to the definition that I made up....a sport or an athletic event requires a skillful and competitive performance of strength, agility, and precision. Bowling requires some strength and precision, so I have no problem to it. Golf, I have no problem either though I really don't care for it.

I have a question to those who believe fishing and hunting are sports: why are they sports? Because equipment needed are sold at sporting goods stores? Because the events take place outdoors?

Imagine this. If the variables involve are significantly different and changing from one competitor to another, how can this be a sport? I am talking about the fish. They move and change. You cannot have two basketball teams compete with ramdomly moving hoops. So, on top of some skills, fishing involves luck. Gambling is never a competitive sport, right? When is the last time going to a casino is considered a sport?

On the other extreme, the game of chess involves a lot of skill but absolutely no strength or luck. Chess is not a sport to me.

Those who called fishing, hunting, and chess are nuts. They just have impure thoughts of some sort, like marketing or self-fulfilling prophecy.

 

Is paintball a sport?