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[ifa79]

Since they are known as the Olympic GAMES then "games" such as curling, baseball and table-tennis have the right to be in the Olympics. Every game or sport tests and measures different kinds of skills in a competative fashion and if people want to watch them then let them compete. The criteria should be some kind of physical movement of the legs and arms so as to keep out chess, bridge and warcraft.

Curling is also the only sport/game in the Olympics where the players/athletes wear microphones. Nov that's special.

[peppermint]

[mindmetoo]

[sundubuman]

mindmetoo,

have you ever played 2 full curling games in one day, a common occurrence furing a round robin tournament?

Trust me if you had, you would realize that curling is indeed a PHYSICAL sport, much more so than archery and shooting. Just because it looks easy to deliver a stone or to slide on ice in front of a fast-moving object hunched over rubbing the surface furiously (using virtually every muscle in your body), doesn't make it so.

A curler burns almost 600 calories during a typical game. And remember, a curling tounament usually consists of almost 10 games.

So technically, the medals awarded for curling are arguably amongst the most caloie-intensive awarded. (what other medal requires 6,000 spent calories during an event?)

[Bulsajo]

[mindmetoo]

[sundubuman]

then you might as well get rid of basketball, handball, water polo, and hockey as well. But the problem is people actually like to watch these events at the olympics- not so sure about archery and luge, but curling has dramatically increased in viewershio over the last 3 Olympics and come Vancouver, I predict it will be the most watched. And that means money.

Don't try this at home-

[mindmetoo]

[ifa79]

You're right, I'm wrong- I just looked up "sport" and "game" in the Oxford dictionary and found out that the 5th definition of "game" is listed as "games" which means "a meeting for sporting contests" which is where the Olympics obviosly got their title.
Still, since a "sport" is "an activity involving physical effort and skill" in competition we would have to find out where to draw the line. This line could never be agreed upon because there is no totally accurate way of measuring.

There are still a lot of sports and games that are not in the Olympics right now, but are recognized by the IOC because they have International Federations and they try to prohibit doping. From what I skimmed of the Charter, the IOC is more concerned with sports being played in enough countries and continents, than with the physical exertion or a sport.
Here are the recognized sports taken from the IOC website. There are definetly a few non-sports here:

RECOGNISED SPORTS LIST

Air sports
Netball
Bandy
Orienteering
Billiard Sports
Pelote Basque
Boules
Polo
Bowling
Powerboating
Bridge
Racquetball
Chess
Roller Sports
DanceSport
Rugby
Golf
Squash
Karate
Surfing
Korfball
Sumo
Life Saving
Tug of War
Motorcycle Racing
Underwater Sports
Mountaineering and Climbing
Water Skiing
Wushu

[SarcasmKills]

Curling is a game... any game where drinking is encouraged during game play is a game, like bowling, not a sport... Curling is more strategy than exertion as well so like chess, it is rightfully considered to be a game, not a sport...

And yes I consider beer-league baseball to be a game rather than a sport..

[numazawa]

Who wants us to save our manhood? How daft is that? It's not healthy, and it can even cause discomfort if you hold out too long. Nah, just let it out somehow, you'll feel better for it. What're you saving if for anyway -- marriage? Gaaawd, that's so 1950s!

[sundubuman]

[sundubuman]

let's start with the basics....

delivery.

starts in the hack, ends up maybe 10 meters away. Name any throwing, heaving whatever game sport where the thrower ends up 10 meters from where the throw began. (ok, maybe javelin)

And then remember this "throw" is on ice, crouched down and sliding on one foot. (there is much debate as to rather the rock should actually be lifted up on the backswing before delivery, as opposed to just bringing it back and pushing it with the force of the body. I was taught to lift and swing it backwards)





and many top curlers are capable of delivering their stones and follow them (for visual and strategic reasons) for another 10 meters or so, all the while crouched in a prone position........

bowling, shuffleboard it ain't.

[sundubuman]

here's a Japanese curler, delivering her stone, over 10 meters from where she started handling the 20 kg. object.

[SarcasmKills]