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Old 06-12-2016, 11:03 AM   #8
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Default Re: Extreme Sports! and Extremely silly ones too!

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Originally Posted by Owen Smith View Post

Playing computer games? Is that a sport or not?
NOT! Computer games, like chess, go, and backgammon, are games. Sports require some kind of physical skill. If it is less physical than darts it is clearly a game.

Your other points were sharp and perceptive. If the baseline is the year 1700AD then every sport on the planet except Caber Tossing has been radically altered by technology. Three hundred years from now the changes will be bigger.
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