I was debating with my dentist today about which sport has the most rules. He says football. I say something like olympic biathlon, where they cross-country ski and fire rifles. There's got to be a bunch of rules on the skis, equipment, direction of fire, gunpowder, types of bullets, and who can actually participate (e.g., no ex-cons, felons, or assassins). Am I right on this?
The decathlon.
David Katz
Close, but high school track and field tops them all. So many ridiculous rules...
If you consider car racing a sport, Formula 1. They released a 72 page update for new rules next season.
Or modern pentathlon...
I have no idea, but here you go: http://www.biathlonworld.com/en/downloads.html
Field Hockey- they're always blowing a whistle
In field hockey, the whistles are always being blown for too many homosexuals on the field.
Football is the right answer, check Guinness world records it's in there somewhere.
Hoppy wrote:
Close, but high school track and field tops them all. So many ridiculous rules...
Agreed. Just take a look at the Texas UIL handbook. Its ridiculous and the sad thing is that coaches refer to the most mundane rules in order to get runners disqualified when their own athletes are beaten.
I cannot believe the level of specificity of some of those biathlon rules, such as the Balkans Rule: "member nations of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) shall obtain prior clearance via CITO/IOTC application for proposed member nation participants, excepting therefrom participation thereof in any OG by an athlete with papers indicating membership in such organizations as the Yugoslav People's Army, Slovenian Territorial Defence, Beli Orlovi, Srpski Cetnicki Pokret, Army of Serb Krajina, Bosnian Serb Army, Army of Republika Srpska, and any and all such paramilitary forces not inasmuch named hereto, until such time that any such participant . . . " blah blah blah.
lacrosse. Different rules for boys, girls, mens, women's all depending on age group, level of competition-class, division, county, state. The rules are changing all the time, how long the lacrosse stick could be for the field players, goalies, how wide the head could be, stupid things like that. Way too confusing.
extremists wrote:
I cannot believe the level of specificity of some of those biathlon rules, such as the Balkans Rule: "member nations of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) shall obtain prior clearance via CITO/IOTC application for proposed member nation participants, excepting therefrom participation thereof in any OG by an athlete with papers indicating membership in such organizations as the Yugoslav People's Army, Slovenian Territorial Defence, Beli Orlovi, Srpski Cetnicki Pokret, Army of Serb Krajina, Bosnian Serb Army, Army of Republika Srpska, and any and all such paramilitary forces not inasmuch named hereto, until such time that any such participant . . . " blah blah blah.
I would not consider that a rule as in what governs what happens on the field of play.
Decathlon is logical since it has the rules for 10 sports plus rules that govern the overall competition.