You Yanks know you have an Olympian who has won medals at six consecutive Games?

Mericans are only interested in shooting other Mericans, not tiny little targets.

BINGO !

it's on wrote:

Skeet shooting should be combined with the discus throw at the next Olympics.

Kramerica wrote:

stateroftheoblivious wrote:

6 consecutive Olympics?

What medal did she win at Sochi?

He's talking about the real Olympics, not the rich white people Olympics.

Shooting is not a real sport though. Every winter Olympic sport is more impressive.

As a Yank I didn't know that. But the confederates in the south probably do.

American men won no shooting medals in 2016. Men from Communist countries that fought America in the 20th century won 5, and men from Russia won 3. Also independent olympic athletes won 2.

Overall the Communists won 10, the Russians 4 and the USA 3. Communists who fought America are the world's best marksmen by far.

Meh. Whatever.

Steve Redgrave won rowing gold at five successive olympics.

A brutal sport, requiring incredible strength and stamina - and he didn't just medal five times in a row, he won.

Redgrave trumps all wrote:

Meh. Whatever.

Steve Redgrave won rowing gold at five successive olympics.

A brutal sport, requiring incredible strength and stamina - and he didn't just medal five times in a row, he won.

I'm not sure being a passenger in a row boat counts as much as an individual medal.

WGAF? wrote:

Gun shooting is not athletics.

Agreed. If nobody crosses a finish line first and you don't even breathe hard doing it, it's not a sport. You aim and pull a trigger. In that case all cops are athletes. I can assure you, they're not. The Olympics have become a joke.

Skeeters wrote:

I know what a real sport is, and it doesn't include shooting, dressage, fishing, darts, poker, snooker or anything else that doesn't require a reasonable level of physical fitness, even if it's in the Olympics or on ESPN. Those things may involve an admirable level of skill for their best practitioners, but that doesn't make them real sports.

You know 'because I say so' isn't really a basis for deciding what is or isn't a sport.

There is nothing in any actual definition that states that a high level of physical fitness is required for something to be a sport.

Sorry about that.

I've watched a lot of baseball over the years and have yet to seen a finish line anywhere on the field.

FirstMateRedgrave wrote:

Redgrave trumps all wrote:

Meh. Whatever.

Steve Redgrave won rowing gold at five successive olympics.

A brutal sport, requiring incredible strength and stamina - and he didn't just medal five times in a row, he won.

I'm not sure being a passenger in a row boat counts as much as an individual medal.

Right. Because the rest of the team were good enough to win against the best in the world without him pulling his weight.

Redgrave trumps all wrote:

FirstMateRedgrave wrote:

I'm not sure being a passenger in a row boat counts as much as an individual medal.

Right. Because the rest of the team were good enough to win against the best in the world without him pulling his weight.

I'm pretty sure in his last race he was wearing a Hawaiian shirt with a camera slung around his neck, such was his elderly boat passenger status.

If you can gain fat and still get better (BOWLING GOLF DARTS) IT IS NOT REALLY A SPORT.

judge holden wrote:

If you can gain fat and still get better (BOWLING GOLF DARTS) IT IS NOT REALLY A SPORT.

Why?

trollism wrote:

judge holden wrote:

If you can gain fat and still get better (BOWLING GOLF DARTS) IT IS NOT REALLY A SPORT.

Why?

I have never read about shooting contests or competitions. And why do females have separate divisions than men?

It seems as though the physical requirements are low and the competition for female shooters is pretty weak.

It is certainly one of the less prestigious of all the Olympic medals.

Congrats anyway. Are billiards or darts Olympic events yet. At least there the competition would be stiff.

Conundrum wrote:

trollism wrote:

Why?

I have never read about shooting contests or competitions. And why do females have separate divisions than men?

Oh that's different, you've never read about a shooting competition?

If you've never read about it, it must be unimportant to everyone.

Conundrum wrote:

trollism wrote:

Why?

I have never read about shooting contests or competitions. And why do females have separate divisions than men?

It seems as though the physical requirements are low and the competition for female shooters is pretty weak.

It is certainly one of the less prestigious of all the Olympic medals.

Congrats anyway. Are billiards or darts Olympic events yet. At least there the competition would be stiff.

I’m not that much interested in watching shooting as a sport, but I thought she was a pretty exceptional person, I know had she been British, she’d have been all over the news.

And she’d be quite useful to have as a neighbour over there when the next civil war begins.

As for ‘why do females have separate divisions to men’?

They all shot together once, but when a certain Zhang Shan, a Chinese female won the gold at Barcelona - the governing bodies didn’t like a woman beating every man in the world, and so they stopped letting women enter the men’s events and created a separate women’s event instead.

They also made the rules different for the two events so that it would be impossible to compare the men’s scores to the women’s scores.

Shirley, you can't be serious?! Can you provide a link?

I do not understand how this is an Olympic Sport. Hardly anyone participates in this activity, even in gun-crazed USA. So she is very good at something that almost nobody does. There are perhaps a few hundred to a few thousand (absolute top end) competitive skeet shooters in USA and most of them are "recreationally-competitive". It is a thing that should not be part of Olympics.