As someone who has played table tennis a lot when younger, it is certainly a sport. When we played other colleges we would be balls of sweat.... I just wonder why Raquet ball is not a sport too. DD
Those are recreational activities, they're not freakin sports. If those are sports, where is jump roping, marbles, hopscotch, dodgeball, frisbee, whiffleball, horseshoes...
those are sports. not popular enough to get in. what's your definition of sports? to me, anything that's competitive against others is a sport. there are sports more dependent on body than others.
Thank you. What people may not realize is the majority of shots, especially at the pro level, are using the same force that you would use to punch a punching bag as hard as you can. Even slower topspin shots (watch people playing against choppers) use that amount of force, except you're minimizing your contact and transferring all that energy into spin rather than speed. You can easily get winded doing a two minute multi-ball drill. Not to mention most major European and Asian countries have a professional league where people make careers of it. The top leagues are in Germany and China (both are NBA equivalent, I suppose). I have a few friends who have played pro in Sweden, and one in Hungary.
Do they not have anything else to show? Anything at all? They show the whole damn marathon in prime time...but they will only air short clips of field events.
Probably because the marathon is live an the track and field stuff already happened. Swimming stuff begins in :30.
Does anybody else catch themselves surprised by some of the countries in the world? Somebody from Tunisia just won in the 1500 M and I was like where so I went and wiki'ed it real quick. I've done that 2 or 3 times already.
damn coughlin really slowed up at the end of her leg there b/c she damn near hit the rope. you would think that wouldn't be a problem at this level. and does it seem like the US is the best in the world at turns, men and women? we always seem to be the country that goes the deepest and furthest after turns and that makes up ground doing it. hell, phelps doesn't even seem the best (or at least clearly the best) stroke for stroke in a lot of his events, but he dolphin kicks underwater so much better than everyone else that he just is hard to beat. and men's 400 medley relay team looked like it only had a .5 second advantage based on the best splits for each swimmer. that seems like a small difference for being called the clear favorite. the women didn't finish 2nd my much and were .61 behind. and with lezak seemingly having problems even touching his 400 free relay performance, i'm worried about him finishing versus sullivan.
I just realized that Phelps is only 23 which means he'll probably be competing in London come 2012. I already heard that he will never attempt another program like this one but does he have the potential to break even more records if he is able to compete in the 2012 games?
