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OT - What other sports do you do? 16-Jun-2013 At 10:20:03 AM Mr Poopypants

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On 16/06/2013 Wendy wrote:
>I don't think i participate in any sports. And call me a pedant, but I
>don't think most of you guys do either.
>
>The definition of sport according to the Australian Sport Foundation:
>“a human activity capable of achieving a result requiring physical exertion
>and/or physical skill, which, by its nature and organisation, is competitive
>and is generally accepted as being a sport.” and the Oxford dictionary:
>"an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual
>or team competes against another or others for entertainment"
>
>Someone played squash. I think that might be the only sport on the list.
>Maybe if you climb, run or ride competitively it becomes a sport?

Had breakfast with some Ukrainian friends who were in the middle of doing a new route on Everest years ago. Sitting in a teahouse in Pheriche they asked Pam and I to check the phrases they had been learning from their phrase book to meet girls. Their favourite, which they had been practising studiously, was,
"Do you go in for sport?"

There are sports and then, there are sports. They were after sport.

Ernest Hemingway said there are only two true sports. Mountaineering and bullfighting.
Anyone do any bullfighting?