Watching top sport
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Topic: Watching top sport
Posted By: BaldFriede
Subject: Watching top sport
Date Posted: May 02 2010 at 03:53
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Ah, I am just watching the final of the Italian Open Team Championships in bridge. It has just begun, and the two top teams are exactly tied. And we have Bocchi / Madala vs. Fantoni / Nunes at one table and Lauria / Versace vs. Duboin / Sementa at the other. It can't get any better - all absolute top players. This is world class bridge. What is your sport to watch?
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Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 06:58
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My favourite sports are athletics and triathlon. The problem with television coverage of triathlon in the UK is that it tends to be shown during the early hours of the morning.
Looking forward to supporting my wife at next Sunday's Glasgow Women's 10k road race.
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 07:06
| Ski jumping, figure skating and Formula 1. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 07:43
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Sadly I like just about all sports esp Football, Athletics Cricket. F1 is probably my least favourite.
Ummm Bridge isn't a sport though  Unless you play it differently in Germany? ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 08:32
Bridge very definitely is a sport, like chess is. there are even plans to make bridge Olympic. there is NO CARD LUCK AT ALL in tournament bridge; it is all just a matter of skill -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
akamaisondufromage wrote:Posted By: Luca Pacchiarini
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 08:33
| I think it's already an olympic sport. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 08:35
there was an introduction event at one of the Olympics, but it has not become Olympic yet ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 08:49
| Myself I consider chess, bridge & others as "games" not as "sports". I don't watch sports since I don't have a TV and don't intend on having one, but I do watch football matches on the internet from time to time (the Champions League matches being the most interesting usually). |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 09:18
fortunately you don't need a TV to watch bridge; many international tournaments are being broadcast as vugraphs at BridgeBase Online. did you know that chess and bridge players actually lose a lot of weight in international tournaments? and they feel just as exhausted as anyone who has been playing tennis or soccer or any other sport after a tournament. chess and bridge ARE sports ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 09:32
If losing weight would be the criteria, than a lot of stuff were be sports  The correct way to say is that football, rugby, basketball etc are also games, like chess and bridge, but sporting games more precisely. At least that's how I was taught. There are a lot of competitions broadcasted online for those who don't have TVs or for those who are in countries where a certain competition they're interested in is not bradcasted on TV. My favourite is http://myp2p.eu/index.php?part=sports - http://myp2p.eu/index.php?part=sports
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 09:46
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top chess players or bridge players definitely consider their game to be a sport ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 09:50
Is tic-tac-toe a sport? Cos I used to be quite good at it.  |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 10:12
| The metaphor "sports of the mind" suits these games the best, I think. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 10:46
They are both games. Just because its a game of skill doesn't make it a sport and neither does the fact that the players think its a sport make it one either. Actually, The Olympics involves a cultural side to it as well as sporting competition so not everything in the Olympics is sport either.
One day I may learn how to play the game.  Surely there must be some luck involved? Not that luck would disqualify it from being a sport. ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 11:09
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As with any card game, the luck of the draw is most certainly a factor. But it stll takes alot of bridge playing skill as well. I've not figured out the enjoyment of watching people play cards on TV. I've not seen Bridge tournaments on TV, but Poker tournaments tend to dominate the airwaves. I also don't consider cards to be a sport, but a game/contest/competition.
For me, my favorite sports to watch are baseball, hockey, American football, and then basketball, but tennis, soccer (European football), lacrosse, golf and the entirety of the winter and summer olympics have been known to play on my TV as well. ------------- 
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Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 11:37
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I would also not use the word "sport" for any activity that doesn't have a strong physical component. Of course I appreciate the difficulty, but there's a reason that card games have yet to make it into the Olympics ...
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 12:14
"tic"
...your move. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 12:18
Um . . . "tac"?  |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 12:22
 - you still are quite good at it.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 12:25
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 12:27
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Personally, I might have gone rogue and gone straight to "toe" myself. -------------
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 12:35
^ I'm much too shy to even think about attempting such a move. 
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 12:40
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I'm still not convinced it makes a good spectator sport though ! ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 13:17
I like Soccer, Tennis, Track and Field, Wintersports (mostlt crosscountry, sprint, biathlon, alpine, jumping and speed skating long track), K1 (martial arts), Strongmann  (even though the contestents are full of steroids), Female beach vollyball (for some odd reason).the lamest sport evver is racewalking I can give some respect to the contestents but it is just a lame sport WHY walk fast when you can run, Marathon actualy have some historiocal merrit but racewalking lame lame lame.  |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: May 04 2010 at 21:51
| Football, Ice Hockey, Soccer. |
Posted By: Evolutionary Sleeper
Date Posted: May 04 2010 at 22:09
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Baseball is my favorites sport, love the game land its rich history . I also watch Basketball, (long-time Jazz fan) Football and occasionally I watch hockey and NASCAR.
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: May 04 2010 at 22:57
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I don't watch any sports. And I'm sorry, but just because the competitors think it is doesn't make chess a sport. I'd probably lose weight if everybody watched me play music for hours a day, but that's not a sport either! ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: May 04 2010 at 23:06
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While Bridge Chess and other things like bowling can be competitions and games you have to have some kind of athletic activity ans skill to make it a sport. Right now watching some hoops but I love American Football, Baseball and on the world stage hockey, short track speed skating and some alpine skiing ------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 05 2010 at 01:57
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Who's up for a game of competitive Architecture? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_competitions_at_the_Olympic_Games - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_competitions_at_the_Olympic_Games
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 05 2010 at 02:30
Architecture is not a sport. 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 05 2010 at 03:27
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Not since 1954 anyway. I think it just got too boring for the comentators.... "Oh, what a masterful move by Ludwig Miles van der Rohe, that perfectly executed flying butress has Sir Giles Gilbert Scott on the ropes, I don't think he's going to recover from this - yes, there you have it, the gold goes to van der Rohe - a magnificent achievement, Sir Gilbert Scott takes silver." ------------- What? |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 05 2010 at 05:01
| I never knew that, very interesting! |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: May 05 2010 at 11:50
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Motorsports in general, but particularly F1, Sports Prototypes, GT's and Touring Cars but my interest in WRC is wainig quite a bit now, the days of McRae, Burns, Makkinen, Sainz and Gronholm are long gone, along with half the manufacturers and teams feilding 2 or more cars that could win. And definitely not NASCAR. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 05 2010 at 19:15
| Here's an interesting article about being a sports fan: http://www.slate.com/id/2252372/pagenum/all/ - http://www.slate.com/id/2252372/pagenum/all/ |