Did I just watch footage from Miami's gay pride parade? Is this really a sport? I thought Ping-Pong and Badminton were stretches as Olympic "Sports", but this has to be the grossest misappropriation of the word "sport", EVER. I would even argue that bowling is more deserved of the name "sport" than this nonsense.
I was sure that Olympic Race-Walking was only added recently to the Olympic games as a concession to the PC constituency. I was wrong. People have been race-walking since the 19th century.
It's been an Olympic sport since 1908! Back then they called the sport pedestrianism
It's funny that the 3rd and 4th definitions of pedestrianism in the dictionary are:
3.
of or pertaining to walking.
4.
lacking in vitality, imagination, distinction, etc.; commonplace; prosaic or dull: a pedestrian commencement speech.
I think the 4th definition describes Olympic Race-Walking perfectly.
Now that I think about it, the 2008 Olympics in general were pedestrian. The US crushed everybody in basketball, the Chinese dominated Badminton and some other non-sports like gymnastics, and every other event was equally as boring and predictable, except for synchronized swimming. I've always been a fan of the sport and been intrigued by the types of "athletes" the event attracts. For those that haven't seen any examples of a typical member of the Brazilian SS team, please enjoy:
Yes, these twin-sisters are actually on the Brazilian SS team. And you were probably watching Michael Phelps's ugly ass flop around in the water, weren't you?
-Dan
p.s. I've got to give China some credit for making sure there were some pretty hot cheerleaders at damn near every event. Though this is a family site and I generally disagree with sexist, pinko-commie bastards on every point, I have to take my hats off to them for this:
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The one I could absolutely not believe that was labeled a sport was "rhythmic gymnastics", where girls frolic around a mat with streamers. How "sports" like that get included while actual legitimate sports like lacrosse have sat on the sidelines for the last 100 years is a tragedy.
And, yes, even bowling is more of a sport than a lot of these other ones.
Competitive ping-pong is awesome, though, I don't care what you say . . .
Agreed. I recently met someone at a party who participates in something called Chiditerod, an urban shopping cart canned foods drive with a bobsled-like team of carters pushing the thing through tundral snow banks to a predefined destination. (little hint: you can shave a few seconds off your time with the boxed goods because it's mostly air.) This, to me is more athletic than the Chaplin-esque power walking, and could only be improved by bikinis, which was your second point.
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