yeh we are 'retards' and you are not. At least we are athletic retards.
yeh we are 'retards' and you are not. At least we are athletic retards.
'Do I think the triathlon is a sport? - no. '
Huh? how is it not a sport? What makes something a sport in your eyes then? You totally lost me....
Oh I forgot- by your standards, it has to be something EVERY person on this earth can do! If that's the case running would be the only sport......
tstuck wrote:
'Do I think the triathlon is a sport? - no. '
Huh? how is it not a sport? What makes something a sport in your eyes then? You totally lost me....
Oh I forgot- by your standards, it has to be something EVERY person on this earth can do! If that's the case running would be the only sport......
maybe you aren't so retarded
if you want to call yourself 'Athletic' fine- I'll take your word for it. definitely retards though... that's my opinion
I heard in 07 there is going to be a new 'sport'...
poggoing for 12 miles, then riding a cow for 18 miles, followed by cross country skiing for another 22 miles.
think of all the combinations we can dream up!
legally blond wrote:
I heard in 07 there is going to be a new 'sport'...
poggoing for 12 miles, then riding a cow for 18 miles, followed by cross country skiing for another 22 miles.
think of all the combinations we can dream up!
and call ourselves athletes!
None of them could be great at any one discipline, NONE of them!
awesome wrote:
its more like this for some guys...
why be great at one sport when you can be great at three?
News Bulletin:
This just in. Football, baseball, and basketball can no longer be declared 'Sports'. This descision comes after legally blonde declared that not everyone has the ability to buy cleats, equipment, etc in order to play them. In the wake of this announcement, vegas and offshore sports books have been dealt a major blow. Retarded runners everywhere are taking to the streets celebrating the victory!
Come on- That's not a sport- not everyone can afford a cow
"since you are making assumptions, here's one for you.
I think it pisses you off that we don't give a rat's ass about your 5 hour bike ride, and that we think and believe you are participating and bragging about 2nd rate efforts. I assume you are feeling very second class citizenship like. Personally, I don't spend much time thinking, reading or hobnobbing with 'triathletes'."
No- doesn't bother me one bit. I think 99.9% of the runners here are second rate runners to be honest. Talk about 2nd rate. The way you guys bash, you'd think you were all olympians.
legally blond wrote:
tstuck wrote:Why do you worry so much about other people? ie- what they enjoy or how they train, especially if it's a healthy lifestyle? Why does it kill you to hear some triathlete tells you he just biked 5 hours.....? I can imagine if that bothers you, the rest of the world must royally piss you off in your day to day routine.....
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since you are making assumptions, here's one for you.
I think it pisses you off that we don't give a rat's ass about your 5 hour bike ride, and that we think and believe you are participating and bragging about 2nd rate efforts. I assume you are feeling very second class citizenship like. Personally, I don't spend much time thinking, reading or hobnobbing with 'triathletes'.
"since you are making assumptions, here's one for you.
I think it pisses you off that we don't give a rat's ass about your 5 hour bike ride, and that we think and believe you are participating and bragging about 2nd rate efforts. I assume you are feeling very second class citizenship like. Personally, I don't spend much time thinking, reading or hobnobbing with 'triathletes'."
No- doesn't bother me one bit. I think 99.9% of the runners here are second rate runners to be honest. Talk about 2nd rate. The way you guys bash, I'd think you were all olympians.
tstuck wrote:
News Bulletin:
This just in. Football, baseball, and basketball can no longer be declared 'Sports'. This descision comes after legally blonde declared that not everyone has the ability to buy cleats, equipment, etc in order to play them. In the wake of this announcement, vegas and offshore sports books have been dealt a major blow. Retarded runners everywhere are taking to the streets celebrating the victory!
Baseball is international to some degree. Basketball is European and North America, and China. Football is a North American phenomenon - soccer is the internationally played sport and the Americans suck at it.
comparing triathlons to running is basically the same thing as comparing cricket to baseball.
tstuck wrote:
No- doesn't bother me one bit. I think 99.9% of the runners here are second rate runners to be honest. Talk about 2nd rate. The way you guys bash, I'd think you were all olympians.
and 100% of all triathletes are 2nd rate. Is the triathlon an Olympic sport?
I'd say more like apples to oranges.......
There isn't a big comparison.
Yeah- put down your playstation controller and read the news. Triathlon became an olympic sport in Sydney.
Okay so that's a pretty small difference then- .1%. We are all pretty much 2nd rate. What I've noticed is that there are a LOT of second rate triathletes KICKING the shit out of you runners in road races here in Atlanta.
tstuck wrote:
Yeah- put down your playstation controller and read the news. Triathlon became an olympic sport in Sydney.
Okay so that's a pretty small difference then- .1%. We are all pretty much 2nd rate. What I've noticed is that there are a LOT of second rate triathletes KICKING the shit out of you runners in road races here in Atlanta.
I don't know what a playstation is.
as far as your second statement about the Atlanta scene, that would not be my experience where I live. Keep trying to build that self-esteem.
It just makes me laugh that the Olympic Committee would now add triathlons, along with the ever so internationally played Beach Volleyball and White Water Rafting 'sport' to the Olympic Games. That tells you a great deal about media influence in the now so called O.G.
are the Somalians and Chileans sending a team in 2008? how exciting!
But - don't fear. The majority of TV time will be devoted to the real sport of track and field - and just about every nation on earth will be represented on the oval.
Not trying to build self esteem here and I don't beleive you don't know what a playstation is. If not, you aren't in tune with news and pop culture.
You forgot about the hilarity of table tennis or ribbon twirling or trampolen bouncing/synchronized swimming. I like track and field and that's what I watch the olympics for. But if you think that's were the money is, you are mistaken- It isn't in running or triathlon- it's the big sports like football, basketball, baseball, hockey. Still don't know what your point is.
my point: I think the most competitive sports are the sports considered national past times in most countries, soccer, track and field - at least long distance running portion.
Sports where someone from Trinidad or Finland has a chance to win a medal. It's called rhythm gymnastics, not ribbon twirling. synchronized swimming is a bullshit event to - just like beach volleyball and trihackalons. They cannot have football because there is only like four countries who play it.
Now the winter Olympics is another story. You really do have to have snow to excel.
I like you triathletes. I like your uni-outfits and your transition bags and your bikes, helmets, gloves for your hands, padded shorts for riding, $130 sunglasses, bike shoes, running shoes, wetsuits, haircaps. Really, this is a very inexpensive sport people requiring very little equipment!
When you omit the marathon coverage, both gymnastics and basketball get more TV time than track and field. Swimming is very close also. I believe that beach volleyball started to challenge track for air time with the American teams doing so well.
Blond - times and tastes are changing. Very few American television viewers find track interesting. They don't care who Choge or Bekele are and, if U.S. sprinters start losing to Brits, Nigerians, Canadians, Jamaicans, et al. with regularity, NBC will switch out to more women's gymnastics and "Dream Team" hoops to stem the ratings losses. Tri will probably get more time because of buff bodies, skimpy unis, and the variety of three disciplines in one race. Much more TV friendly than watching sketetal guys run in circles - sad but very true.
By the way, the non-competitive "Gymnastics Gala" (featuring lame dance / high school level routines and bad pop music) drew nearly twice the ratings of any track event at Athens. Money talks.
You are not helping your argument Blond by harping on the themes of mediocrity and socioeconomic barriers to entry. No one cares about that. People like sports because they enjoy participating or it entertains them. When I tee up a Titleist on a hot summer day, I don't shed tears reflecting on some poor Masai herder who can't afford a bag of Pings. I play because I enjoy it and it is social. I also watch the PGA from time to time because those guys play a game I cannot even hope to play.
Live well, be healthy, enjoy the one life you have!
legally blond wrote:
blah, blah, blah . . .
Sports where someone from Trinidad or Finland has a chance to win a medal. It's called rhythm gymnastics, not ribbon twirling. synchronized swimming is a bullshit event to - just like beach volleyball and trihackalons.
Not exactly Finland, but teams from Sweden and Norway have in fact medaled in the FIVB beach volleyball tour this year. Finland isn't one of the top international contenders (neither is the US)), but has a decent indoor team in the World League, but I'm sure you knew that.