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Post by Manute Bol on Sept 19, 2015 10:32:04 GMT -5
It's just as a much as a sport as a horseback racing, curling, golf, dressage, etc. I've always considered sports to be things where you rely on your body and your physical prowess. I have a hard time calling horseback racing a sport too for that reason. The majority of the physical prowess is required from the horse, not the jockey. I don't mean to diminish NASCAR drivers at all - what they do is absolutely a skill, and it requires a lot of focus and mental stamina. But so does chess, and I don't think many would call that a sport.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Sept 19, 2015 20:53:49 GMT -5
A sport is a game that you have to change your shoes to play. Therefore, it's a game. I change my shoes to play Magic. I wear regular shoes to walk to the local gaming club, then change into thick-soled sandals while in the club. So many 4-sided dice and thumbtacks hidden in the club's carpet...
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Post by Father Dougal McGuire on Sept 20, 2015 5:27:58 GMT -5
It's just as a much as a sport as a horseback racing, curling, golf, dressage, etc. Just a quick checkdown: Horse racing is a sport for the horses since they have to be trained, and for the jockeys since you have to keep a certain weight. Curling is a sport since the person who throws the rock has to put the right amount of curve on it, and the sweepers have to clean the ice to keep the right path. Golf puts a strain on your knees and back, and you have to be able to read leads and lays, even if you have a good caddy. But I will give you dressage, and this comes from someone who once raised quarter horses do do the barrel runs at rodeos.
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Post by Red Impact on Sept 20, 2015 11:56:31 GMT -5
I'd consider NASCAR a sport, even if we didn't keep things that involve horse racing. Nascar requires an insane amount of fine motor control, which makes sense considering that they're driving for 5 hours at 200 miles an hour in a car that's hotter than 100 degrees with other cars inches from yours doing the exact same thing. They have to pass physicals like any other athelete, and have pretty intense training regiments. They do have to keep weight (even if Nascar makes sure that every driver weighs exactly 200 pounds), and they have strict dietary regimens. They can lose updwards of 10 pounds in water weight per race, and they can't take breaks.
What a NASCAR driver goes through isn't any less physical than what a lot of athletes go through.
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