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Re: The fix is in: Rams go to SuperBowl
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:13:31 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> For that matter, why is pro-wrestling denied the status of "sport" on the
> grounds that it's scripted, while Figure Skating and Gymnastics, which use
> highly-coreographed routines, are applauded for the same thing?!
I suspect it's not the scripting that is the problem, it's that in wrestling,
somebody knows who is going to win and tells the athletes that information.
In your examples, while probably much more heavily scripted than the average
wrestling match (often, only the finish is predetermined, and the wrestlers are
free to do whatever stuff they choose during the match) the outcome is not
known. Since the outcome is not known, it's a sport.
Adrian
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| I'd say that for pro-wrestling to be an olympic sport, we'd need a bunch of different matches and the judging would be on the match as a whole (that is, all participants in the match would be judged together), with criteria such as: realism, safety, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) For that matter, why is pro-wrestling denied the status of "sport" on the grounds that it's scripted, while Figure Skating and Gymnastics, which use highly-coreographed routines, are applauded for the same thing?! Dave! (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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