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Is racewalking a joke? (pg. 2)
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| bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
they must always have at least 1 foot on the ground.
I saw a judge give a walker a yellow card for lifting both up. |
Lifting both feet up would be a jump. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| its actually a pretty demanding event. stupid, granted. but demanding all the same. |
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| Cloudburst |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
HAHAHA i was thinking the same thing. What a stupid event. I feel the same about curling and ping pong. Those are hobbies, not sports. |
I would like to see you walk that long at that speed. :D |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
Lifting both feet up would be a jump. |
then I guess jogging and running can be defined as a series of jumps :) |
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| Ian |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
its actually a pretty demanding event. stupid, granted. but demanding all the same. |
yeah, it takes a lot of training, albeit for something that looks really silly.
Pointless olympic sports imo include
the horse ones. sure, being a jockey takes skill but you could have a jockey on an awesome horse or vice versa. Plus i really hate the horse-type posh ****s.
Baseball - seriously? only america, japan & latin-american countries play it i think?
football. Awesome sport but why the would we want to enter as 'great britain' when most of the 11 would be english anyway. In previous years, 10 Englishmen + Ryan Giggs. Now he's too old to be useful I struggle to find a player who'd get into the side from the welsh, the scottish or northern ireland. Plus add in that it's under 23s and you may as well just hold an under 21 world cup instead and get more effort put into it. |
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| Trance Nutter |
Why is walking stupid but running ok?
They're just different disclipines.
*not a particular fan of walking, just not getting the hate* |
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| Beat Blog |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trance Nutter
Why is walking stupid but running ok?
They're just different disclipines. |
...because it's basically about who can cheat the best.
I have huge admiration for walkers; over any distance further than about 5 or 10km, these people can hammer along faster than most people can run.
Walkers are incredibly fit and brilliant athletes, but like gymnastics, diving and any other sports which include any significant level of objectivity (and thus bias), walking is fundamentally flawed in my eyes. |
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| StanVoid |
| ppl always tell me i walk too fast... |
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| Moongoose |
| quote: | Originally posted by jupiterone
know what's even dumber? baseball as a sport |
Fixed. |
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| elFreak |
| ballroom dancing. |
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| bigsnail |
| old ppl that "race walk" around the mall early in the morning scare me. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
In 2012 Bowling is going to be entered as an introductory sport.
Other useless sports - any that are dominated by black people...Canada's black people suck at sports so we get no medals. |
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