Name sports you cannot bear to watch

[pasag]

Yeah part of the reason Freeman's race was so great wasn't because it was a couple of minutes, but because it was months and months in the making culminating in those couple of moments.

 

[Josh]

You mean training??

 

[pasag]

No, the intense media, national pressure and buildup. It wasn't just a race that went for a couple of minutes, it was an event months, if not years in the making and that's just from a supporters point of view.

 

[Josh]

Well fair enough I suppose. I myself wouldn't count the media as a part of the actual competitive sport, it would be another subject all together. But I suppose it does create a crapload of pressure, much like the pressure you could feel in any other sport.

 

[Perm]

Pretty poor from Matteh how he builds up cycling as some sort of great sport and then derides Athletics. They have the same principles. Run fast/throw far/jump high etc and cycle fast.

 

[Matteh]

Pretty poor from Matteh how he builds up cycling as some sort of great sport and then derides Athletics. They have the same principles. Run fast/throw far/jump high etc and cycle fast.

Cycling's base principle is just cycle enough to get to the finish. Not everyone out there is trying to win by going as fast as they can and those that actually are more likely to win the most stages usually end up coming home at the end of the 3 week tours practically last showing how multi-faceted it is.

 

[Perm]

Cycling's base principle is just cycle enough to get to the finish. Not everyone out there is trying to win by going as fast as they can and those that actually are more likely to win the most stages usually end up coming home at the end of the 3 week tours practically last showing how multi-faceted it is.

Indeed, I'm no cycling expert but it annoys me how you are slagging off athletics for being boring, monotonous and simple, when cycling is pretty much the exact same thing. Not for a fan of either sport, obviously, but for a neutral I think they would find athletics far more interesting to watch, and don't usually put down the different events.

 

[Josh]

I'm wondering Matteh are you one to take the angle I briefly brought up in having some sort of feeling of sustained tension and anticipation in your sport viewing??

 

[GIMH]

Matteh,I TOTALLY agree with you. masses of strategy needed to win a race like the TDF and similar races.

Do you think that strategy plays no part in Athletics? The 800/1500 are as tactical as it gets, who can forget Kelly Holmes brilliant strategic performance in Athens 04. And long-distance running is not jogging. Grinds my gears that

 

[sideshowtim]

Sailing
Car racing
Extreme sports of any kind
Horse racing

 

[Matteh]

Do you think that strategy plays no part in Athletics? The 800/1500 are as tactical as it gets, who can forget Kelly Holmes brilliant strategic performance in Athens 04. And long-distance running is not jogging. Grinds my gears that

Naah long distance is clearly jogging until the last 400m really and then it's whoever can sprint around the track and keep it up to the line that wins.

 

[Matteh]

Indeed, I'm no cycling expert but it annoys me how you are slagging off athletics for being boring, monotonous and simple, when cycling is pretty much the exact same thing. Not for a fan of either sport, obviously, but for a neutral I think they would find athletics far more interesting to watch, and don't usually put down the different events.

Since when does cycling go around literally the same 400 metres over and over? (track cycling excepted.) Watching people run around the same flat 400m track is clearly more boring to watch than cyclists going along a large stretch of road, some of which is flat, but you get undulating terrain and then of course mountains. Not to mention that it goes through some of the most beautiful areas in the world. Now compare that to the view inside a stadium and well meh.

 

[adharcric]

Motor sports and animal racing are dire in general. Cycling and long-distance running are boring to watch but awesome sports. Both, especially the latter, require plenty of strategy. Takes some time to really appreciate golf. Baseball seems dull at first but is another good sport to watch. Soccer (football) is usually great to watch (except for those **** matches where the ball is always being headed around ... FFS, it's football) and relatively easy to understand for anyone. American football, on the other hand, is very exciting and easily one of the most intricate and complex of all sports.

 

[burridge_1994]

Yawnion and car racing; just to name a few.

 

[Perm]

Since when does cycling go around literally the same 400 metres over and over? (track cycling excepted.) Watching people run around the same flat 400m track is clearly more boring to watch than cyclists going along a large stretch of road, some of which is flat, but you get undulating terrain and then of course mountains. Not to mention that it goes through some of the most beautiful areas in the world. Now compare that to the view inside a stadium and well meh.

Once again you seem to fail to grasp the fact that athletics isn't exclusively running around a track. I realise there are different aspects to cycling, even on the Tour de France there will be hill stages etc.

 

[GIMH]

Naah long distance is clearly jogging until the last 400m really and then it's whoever can sprint around the track and keep it up to the line that wins.

Please tell me you don't actually believe that? I challenge you to "jog" for 26 miles 385 ydds in 2 hours 19 minutes. As the son of a relatively successful marathon runner, and a former long-distance runner myself, you are so far off the mark it's not true. I suspect that you know that though.

Since when does cycling go around literally the same 400 metres over and over? (track cycling excepted.) Watching people run around the same flat 400m track is clearly more boring to watch than cyclists going along a large stretch of road, some of which is flat, but you get undulating terrain and then of course mountains. Not to mention that it goes through some of the most beautiful areas in the world. Now compare that to the view inside a stadium and well meh.

What about Marathon running? Cross-country?

 

[steds]

Naah long distance is clearly jogging until the last 400m really and then it's whoever can sprint around the track and keep it up to the line that wins.

Hahaha. So dire.

 

[pasag]

Please tell me you don't actually believe that? I challenge you to "jog" for 26 miles 385 ydds in 2 hours 19 minutes. As the son of a relatively successful marathon runner, and a former long-distance runner myself, you are so far off the mark it's not true. I suspect that you know that though.

Didn't picture it itbt

 

[Sanz]

Curling.

 

[open365]

Football.

I really can't get my head round the appeal of it, as a kid i could stand it, but now i wouldn't even watch the world cup final if England ever got through.