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I call bullshit…my parents reasoning in this is logical cuz its 3 sports in 1 but i still dont understand how the hell it didnt make the Top 60!
The only sport to get a 10.00 in any column was gymnastics in flexibility.
I find it hard to believe Cycling: Distance would only get a 9.63 in endurance if boxing got an 8.63. Boxing surely isn’t easy, it’s damned demanding, but how long could a fight go? Maximum would be what, maybe 1/5 of ONE stage (non-TT) of the TdF? And the TdF goes for 23 days (21 stages), yet it’s ranked as only 11.5% more demanding in the endurance column than boxing…
Cheerleading ain’t a F&$King sport!
Just because they make a competition out of it doesn’t make it a sport. Like Ballroom dancing ain’t a sport either.
FK me. Fishing ain’t a sport either. It’s little more than a way to get out of the house from your miserable a$$ sister/wife.
What the hell is the world coming to?
I can accept that boxing might come first, over my beloved triathlon, but that we didn’t even make the list of 60 (was it the top 60 or was it just 60 they chose) I guess triathlon is still a minority sport and under the radar for a while longer.
Thank god too I say. Last thing I want is to finish in the top 10,000 at IM one day. I like it being an extreme sport. I like it better when is wasn’t so popular that you had to qualify for races and could just enter…even on race day.
Cheerleading? Christ, anybody got a rope? I wanna hang myself if that’s what counts as a friggen SPORT. (What ever happened to “higher faster stronger”?)
(maybe I’m just having a bad hair day…but I’m blonde, so it’s probably not that LOL)
I am clueless as to how Autoracing beat out Track & Field: Distance, Middle Distance. If I had to pick between who the greater, tougher, athlete is between Jeff Gordon and Hicham El G it’s a no contest.
I can believe that boxing is more of an endurance event for the amount of time you are doing it. Triathlon is more sustained but to box 12 three minute rounds must be extremely tiring. I’ve boxed my brother before, who has never done a second of cardio in his life, and I am always winded way before he is. He wants to keep going while I am on the ground trying to breath (this is also because I am trying to avoid getting hit again). I don’t understand fishing though, what bullshit.
depends on what their definition of Auto Racing is…if its F1 then its understandable…if its Nascrap then i i agree with you its total crap…
Schumacher ot Hicham El G? I think Schumacher wins… Jeff Gordon is no match for either…
If you take the highest values of Cycling: Distance, Swimming: Distance, and Track & Field: Distance triathlon gets 58.115 which is 14 1/2 place.
Triathlon should get a bump over the individual sports for durability as the hours of physical training for triathlon are just crazy compared to most other sports.
Triathlon should also get a bump for analytical as nutrition along with discpline balance are non-trivial.
There is a clear bias against shaved legs.
depends on what their definition of Auto Racing is…if its F1 then its understandable…if its Nascrap then i i agree with you its total crap…
I know relatively fit people who have gone to the NASCAR schools and done laps at 170+ with the drivers. They all tell that you cannot imagine how hot, and sweaty it is in the cars, how hard the G forces are in the tuns and how tired they are after doing just a few laps, let alone going 500 miles in bumper to bumper traffic. They claim their whole bodies are sore/tired and or their necks are killing them. If you look at most race car drivers (other than drag racing and maybe Tony fat-ass Stewart) many are pretty fit looking. So while I don’t really agree that it is a sport, it does take incredible coordination and both physical and mental stamina.
Could most race car drivers run marathons? Probably not, but then again probably a lot of elite marathoners wouldn’t last 1/4 of a race in any type of race car.
And to the posters on the boxing, I remember in college one of my roomates used to enter local boxing tournaments so we would often spar with him for the fun of it. A couple of 3 minute rounds are incredibly tiring, plus there’s the physical beating aspect of it.
How ESPN determined many of these people were panel EXPERTS is a mystery to me - sure, a few make sense - but I don’t see a former baseball player, a broadcaster, and a columnist as EXPERTS… Just another example of how ESPN has become a JOKE when it comes to valued analysis…
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totally ridiculous…trying to compare apples to oranges… funny I saw something like this a few years ago and Nordic skiing(racing) won out as the toughest.
Curling??? Please… I think that probably ranks just below gardening or dusting the furniture.
Don’t let Jonnyo hear that…
Well I for one would put Nordic skiing up there…
I have decent cross country technique but I find it harder than biking, running or swimming.
Please Water Polo at 12th. It is boxing/wrestling in the water. Maybe the “panelists” have never done any other sport than their own. OK, I see that some of the panelists actually do know what they are doing, still some of them should know better.
LOL… yeah… i would guess you never play?!? or not a high level! Every sport as is components of athletism…
Ok so 500 miles going in circles takes a lot of concentration and they may feel sore and hurting after a race, but its always the same feeling cuz they turn in 1 direction LEFT…F1 turns both ways and some turns they reach as high as 4g’s at speeds over 170mph… Heikki Kovalianen(sp) did NY or Berlin cant remember in like 3:21 i think i may be off here by a little on the time… I think F1 drivers are fitter than Nascar just cuz the tracks are physically more demanding and require more concentration due to their faster speeds… If you wanna see how F1 drivers train excluding KIMI!! Senna, Schumi, Heikki, Hakkinen all those guys use to train yr round for the demands put on them while testing and racing… Senna was insane lol…
Your right that most Elite marathon runners couldnt last 1/4 of any race in an F1 car or Nascar though
“Every sport as is components of athletism…”
Ahh, the voice of reason. Thanks, Jonnyo.
You’d guess right…although I do dust my house occasionally. Didn’t mean to offend…I’m sure it requires considerable hand-eye ability. I just find it baffling that it gets ranked above triathlon.