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Poll Question: What sport/athletic events do you like? Spectating or participating.
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    Posted: August 15 2007 at 17:43
The art crowd is stereotyped as being non-competitive when it comes to sports and athletics.
Are these tongue cluckers right?
I think not.
Show  'em what your made of!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 17:48
As a Montrealer, Hockey is a religion.  No wonder, since we have the hockey team with the most prestigious history worldwide, the Montreal Canadiens.
 
I catch as many games as I can on TV and try to go see a few games every now and then.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:01

Figure scating (watch).



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:07
Figure skating is so beautiful that I consider it art, not sport.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:13
Nothing, really. I'm fairly active in cycling myself, but don't watch it. I might watch a soccer game if I stumble across one and I'm in the right mood for it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:21
Skateboarding!

I've been skateboarding for almost 6 years now and I couldn't imagine myself without it. I've learned so many people and had many great experience through it that I wouldn't change it for anything.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:30
Football (Soccer).
 
However, in the list I miss the only sport I played intensely since my teenagers: volleyball (indoor & beach). I played also football and futsal (indoor soccer) but left them when the first grey hairs appeared.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:33
I'm not really a fanatic follower of any sport, for most parts I cannot stand watching it, but I guess by default I'm roped into the Track and field scene. I do watch a soccer game every weekend, showing my friend moral support. Plus I do my healthy share of Mountain biking. 
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Yep, count me as one of the weedy non-competitive anti-sports arty crowd. I do watch the Tour de France cycle race every year (sometimes live but mostly on TV) but that's about it. Actually I'm ridiculously over-competitive, but hoplessly inept at every sport I've ever attempted, which makes the whole it's not the winning it's the taking part ethic so unpleasantly displeasing when you have absolutely zero chance of winning anything other than bruises and sympathy, when what you really want to do is grind your opponents face into the dirt (which didn't go down well at the chess club) - If I can't win I really do want to get even, so the only solution is not to compete in the first place. {I've tried them all: canoe polo, roller hockey, field hockey, football, judo, rugby, cricket, squash, badmington, rounders, netball, darts, cheese skittles, dominoes, croquet, bowls, running, jumping, standing still - absolute rubbish at each one} - I can waffle for England - does that count?
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US Football RULES
 
Also like hockey,lacrosse(very big here in Maryland),skateboarding and snowboarding.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 19:24
US football whether it's pro, college or high school is fascinating to me.  It's the only sport that I will sit through an entire game.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 03:13
Football. (Not the US crap, real football, where they actually kick the ball, with their feet. Hence the name.)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 03:54
Mostly tennis for us. I was able to convince Jean of soccer and converted her into a Schalke fan, like all of my family. She did not quite manage to turn me into American football and becoming a Raiders fan, though I definitely prefer American football to baseball. But tennis is the sport we play ourselves.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 03:58
I'm a motorsport nut, my main interests within motorsport are F1, GTs, LMPs (Le Man Prototypes) and Historic racing but it's all good.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 04:01
I was looking down the list looking for the world's greatest game. It's not there. Shocked
Then I looked at where Tapfret comes from. Smile
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 04:09
Cricket.

Not that I take part but,fishing isn't on the list.
Apparently,it's the UK's largest participant sport.

Oh! and 'indoor sports'

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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 04:18
Ugh! Where's sumo, the greatest of all west/east coast sports? I used to follow it madly, until it stopped being aired...
 
I can't say that I follow it, but after googin' Ferret Legging, I can say without a resonable doubt that it's to be my newest sport, so I guess it takes my vote.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 06:39
Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Mostly tennis for us. I was able to convince Jean of soccer and converted her into a Schalke fan, like all of my family. She did not quite manage to turn me into American football and becoming a Raiders fan, though I definitely prefer American football to baseball. But tennis is the sport we play ourselves.


It must have been a bitter year seeing Schalke losing the title so stupidly on the last turn Big%20smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 06:43
I'm antithetic to sports, out of, mainly, being lazy to get into any. Of course, some are dangerous for my hands, but others, like swimming (which I dislike), are well-indicated.

I like instead to watch some sports. Not football, the entire stupidness and weak-play in my country makes me reticent to it Dead, but mainly some great tennis (I'm actually a good fan, as of late), figure skating (and wintersports), some athletic games, snooker etc.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 07:12
Originally posted by andu andu wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Mostly tennis for us. I was able to convince Jean of soccer and converted her into a Schalke fan, like all of my family. She did not quite manage to turn me into American football and becoming a Raiders fan, though I definitely prefer American football to baseball. But tennis is the sport we play ourselves.


It must have been a bitter year seeing Schalke losing the title so stupidly on the last turn Big%20smile

Yes, it was horrible. They had it in their own hands and lost against Bochum.


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