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On 2004-07-01, Chris Holliday penned:
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"Cycling requires no hand-eye coordination."
Oh, really?
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monique -
Quoted message said:
Blah blah blah. Some idiot from there or somewhere says
pretty much the same thing every year. And every year, a
bunch of people who missed it the prior year get all up in
arms and try to organize letter-writing campaigns....Move along folks, there's nothing to see here.
-Andrew
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He's obviously never climbed Mt. Ventoux.
He probably thinks that football or baseball is a sport. What do they do? Throw a ball around for an hour. With a break halfway. No hand-eye coordination? Try cornering at 40 mph. Or avoiding the guy right in front of you who crashes.However, that being said, I agree with most any other of the sports.
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Chris Holliday said:
I gotta agree with this part though:
"And I mentioned the whole guys-shaving-legs thing, right?
Among avid cyclists - a deeply annoying cult if ever there
were one - there's actually a term of ridicule aimed at guys
who don't shave their legs. They're called "Freds." Long
live the Freds, say I. "Just call me "Fred". That's one reason I could never be a
serious roadieTom (or Hairy Fred)
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Chris Holliday said:
Pretty funny. I particularly liked the description of
hunters.However, any form of recreation fits the definition of
"sport", so the whole thing is irrelevant.Is writing rants on the definition of "sport" a sport?
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On 2004-07-01, John Harlow penned:
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Chris Holliday said:
Pretty funny. I particularly liked the description of
hunters.However, any form of recreation fits the definition of
"sport", so the whole thing is irrelevant.I'm not sure about that. Then again, why does ESPN
show poker?--
monique -
Chris Holliday said:
I wouldn't trust anyone that obsessed with body hair to
write a reasonable op-ed piece.--
-BB- To reply to me, drop the attitude (from my e-mail
address, at least) -
Chris Holliday said:
Hey! He forgot curling!
athlete
n : a person trained to compete in sports [syn: jock]Olympics Olympic games, or Olympics (Greek Antiq.), the
greatest of the national festivals of the ancient Greeks,
consisting of athletic games and races, dedicated to
Olympian Zeus, celebrated once in four years at Olympia, and
continuing five days.Therefore, I contend that since cycling is an Olympic event
and the Olympics consists of athletes, a cyclist is an
athlete. Now a sportswriter on the other hand is just a
fat, lazy, greasy, cheese-steak eating loser who was never
good enough to participate in sports so he writes about
them instead.--
o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-o
www.schnauzers.ws -
Chris Holliday said:
Tony Siragusa. Now there's an Athelete
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Ride-A-Lot said:
Therefore, I contend that since cycling is an Olympic
event and the Olympics consists of athletes, a cyclist is
an athlete. Now a sportswriter on the other hand is just a
fat, lazy, greasy, cheese-steak eating loser who was never
good enough to participate in sports so he writes about
them instead.--
o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-o www.schnauzers.wsI have not had a good cheese-steak since I left eastern PA,
except on the rare occasion when I returned 🙂--
Craig Brossman, Durango Colorado (remove ".nospam" to reply) -
tcmedara said:
Chris Holliday said:
I gotta agree with this part though:
"And I mentioned the whole guys-shaving-legs thing, right?
Among avid cyclists - a deeply annoying cult if ever there
were one - there's actually a term of ridicule aimed at
guys who don't shave their legs. They're called "Freds."
Long live the Freds, say I. "Just call me "Fred". That's one reason I could never be a
serious roadieYou've obviously never had a luscious blonde walk up to you
in a bar, bat her eyes at you, and ask if she could *please,
please* feel your legs...After an encounter like that, your unshaved buddies will be
heading to WalMart to buy a razor and some shaving cream as
soon as they can walk....
:-)--Kamus
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From Cambridge dictionary:
Definition athlete [Show phonetics] noun [C] a person who is
very good at sports or physical exercise, especially one who
competes in organized events: He became a professional
athlete at the age of 16. She has the build of an athlete.athletic [Show phonetics] adjective 1 strong, healthy and
good at sports: She looks very athletic."Chris Holliday" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...Quoted message said:
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tcmedara said:
I gotta agree with this part though:"And I mentioned the whole guys-shaving-legs thing, right?
Among avid cyclists - a deeply annoying cult if ever there
were one - there's actually a term of ridicule aimed at
guys who don't shave their legs. They're called "Freds."
Long live the Freds, say I. "Actually, "Fred" is the term used to describe clueless
newbies, geeks, losers, poseurs, etc., the roadie equivalent
of a "Barney" in mt. biking (Fred / Barney: get it?).
Included would be anybody who actually believes that "Fred"
means guys who don't shave their legs, which is irrelevant,
false and totally lame.Quoted message said:
Just call me "Fred". That's one reason I could never be a
serious roadieCan I call you "Barney" too? --dt
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Ashley said:
From Cambridge dictionary:
Definition athlete [Show phonetics] noun [C] a person who
is very good at sports or physical exercise, especially
one who competes in organized events: He became a
professional athlete at the age of 16. She has the build
of an athlete.athletic [Show phonetics] adjective 1 strong, healthy and
good at sports: She looks very athletic.You gotta remember - he's making up his own definition.
<http://msn.foxsports.com/story/2552614> If you allow me to
make up my own definitions of words, I can show that all
mountain bikers are liars.... (OOPS, that one's already
been done...)--Kamus
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Chris Holliday said:
Ummm...
The author hasn't actually claimed cycling isn't a sport,
rather they have claimed cyclists are not athletes.As athletes compete in athletics (defined as a collection of
running, throwing and jumping sports based on the ancient
Greek competitive traditions), the claim that cyclists, are
not athletes seems blindingly obvious to me.Strange they should state cycling doesn't require hand and
eye co ordination though. -
Chris Holliday said:
It's hard to disagree with someone who disses golfers, race
car drivers and bowlers who pretend they're athletes.But these trolls come out every year about this time.
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Lynn Wallace xmission.com~lawallOpen ↗
"We should not march into Baghdad. ... Assigning young soldiers to
a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning
them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerilla war, it
could only plunge that part of the world into ever greater
instability." George Bush Sr. in his 1998 book "A World Transformed" -
Chris Holliday said:
Did you see this complementary article?
msn.foxsports.com2552614Open ↗
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Phil, Squid-in-Training -
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But these trolls come out every year about this time.
It's obviously an entertainment piece....
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Phil, Squid-in-Training -
"ZeeExSixAre" <[email hidden]> wrote in
:"]news:[email hidden]:Quoted message said:
By the definitions in this article, I guess most runners
aren't atheletes either. After all, it's all endurance, no
hand eye coordination (anyone can run, right?). Heck, most
track and field events probably wouldn't qualify as
athletics under these rules.And then you have the areas within certain sports. Are
baseball and football players atheletes? Well sure...uh, but
wait, what about a relief pitcher? What about place kicker?
Those are "mono-athletic" activities (as the author calls
it), so I guess not.
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