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Re: Not everyone has such a narrow definition of acceptable body images and beauty. BlackAdder Send a noteboard - 27/02/2010 07:33:20 PM
And figure skating is the least cool part of the Olympics. If there is not some obvious, objective and tangible criterion for scoring and determining victory, it is not a sport. It is a show, a performance competition or however you want to call it, but it is not a sport. Don't give me that crap about the physical requirements or necessary training time. You can say the same thing about a musician, especially with some wind instruments, or some contemporary "musicians" whose act centers mainly around lip-synching while dancing. Those require an enormous investment in time and effort and physical exertion (so, for that matter, does modeling or acting or beauty competitions which need you to stay at a certain weight) too.

Well how about gymnastics then? I'm not sure if you understand exactly how the athletes/performers are scored. The thing is, all of the performers are graded on how well they do on the individual elements of their routine (as well as how they put it together), which I believe they submit before-hand to the judges. So, screwing up a spin or doing it in the wrong order gets points off. I think basically you start from a 10 and work down for mistakes.
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