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Quite a poor performance imo, lower than expected (i.postimg.cc)

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[-] [email protected] 74 points 10 months ago

Spray and pray with a semi automatic is unfortunately not an Olympic sport.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 10 months ago

Ah yes, the sport of shooting guns

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

What do you mean with that comment?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Well, one would imagine that was probably the way US athletes were preparing for the Olympics.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 10 months ago

That it's not a sport

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Of course it's a sport. Multiple sports even. It takes skill, training and effort to be good at shooting. There are many different shooting sports.

Of course just blindly firing a weapon is not a sport itself. Just as blindly kicking a ball is no sport.

Why do you think shooting is no sport?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

[+] [email protected] -11 points 10 months ago

If the only reason you're sweating is because you're out in the sun then I'm sorry, that's not a sport, just like chess is not a sport even though it requires skills, training and effort.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

I see we're gatekeeping sports now lol

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

To be fair, people call chess a sport, and then there's e-sports. Neither fit with the definition of physical exertion.

[-] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago

And neither are sports, just because some people can do it professionally doesn't mean it's a sport.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Gotta agree with that.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

If Alexis Lagan and Katelyn Abeln can compete 1v1 in the same category then I'm sorry to inform you that physical fitness isn't a criteria for whatever the competition is and we're not talking about a sport.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Is archery not a sport then? Or say, golf?

[-] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago

Someone has never pulled a bowstring before

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

So archery is a sport because it requires effort, but the effort isn't the part that makes archery hard? Olympic archers don't struggle with pulling the bowstring, they struggle with aiming the bow to get fractions of a point.

If they ran a lap in between shots during the shooting sports would you call that a sport?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I have, quite a lot, and I would hardly classify the act as particularly athletic.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It does require phisical skill. You have to aim, perfect hand eye coordination, muscle memory, breath control. A sport doesn't require a full body workout, if it did than bob sleighing or dressage or table tennis wouldn't be sports either. Sport is about physical fitness but also about teamwork, competition, perseverance and much more.

It's like saying deathmetal isn't music, because you can't understand the words they sing.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm sorry not every sport is pure ugga bugga, ape strong, and some instead require brain skills or precision.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Should they be considered sports then?

noun plural noun: sports 1. an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. "team sports such as baseball and soccer"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

it can also mean

An activity providing diversion, entertainment, or fun; a pastime.

according to the oxford english dictionary

which makes it quite a bit more open ended

[-] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

shooting, darts, snooker, curling, boules, golf, archery, driving/car racing, horse riding, sailing, luge/skeleton, croquet, motorboat racing, table tennis, weight lifting, gliding, skiing, alpinism, ballooning, chess, firefighting, cannon shooting, kite flying, pigeon racing, military patrol, dog-sled racing, bridge, lifeguarding, scuba diving have all been part of modern day Olympics.

[-] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And of this list there's a whole bunch of stuff that isn't a sport.

Unless you consider that painting is a sport? Because that was in the Olympics as well!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

sport is a contractive ellision of disport, from the Latin desport meaning "to carry away," i.e. a pastime in which you get carried away, or a game with equipment you can carry around.

All dictionaries describe sports as games of athleticism and/or skill.

If you get too prescriptive of your definition then things like running, swimming, karate aren't sports because they don't have equipment you can carry, or if shooting has no "athleticism", wouldn't it be fair to say that the 100m dash has no particular "skill" and thus is also not a sport.

If that sounds too ridiculous, maybe you should reconsider your position.

Have you also considered Diogenes' "Behold - A Man!" when trying to define sports?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You’re whole “not a sport” argument is kind of messed up by the fact it’s an Olympic sport, soooo idk

[-] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

So painting is a sport?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_competitions_at_the_Summer_Olympics

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I’d argue no, not really. It’s also not in the Olympics.

We get it, you don’t like guns, but drip your gate keepy bullshit

[-] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

But it was, therefore it was a sport at some point (by your own logic) which I guess would also mean that if shooting was to be removed from the Olympic events then it wouldn't be a sport anymore (again, extrapolating from what you just said regarding painting), but does that mean that to be a sport something needs to be part of the Olympics or we can evaluate each discipline for what they are, i.e. some competitions present at the Olympics just aren't sports (contrary to what you seem to pretend) and that's been the case for a very long time.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

This is such a weird hill to die on.

Rip

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

😘

[-] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You're proving that reading comprehension is a sport in which you are terrible.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You clearly haven’t even bothered to watch it to see how dumb your comment is.

[-] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago

Americans worship guns, not train how to use them

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I got into riflery in high school because I thought the irony of shooting competitively in a school was hilarious.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I didn’t even know that word existed.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What word?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Riflery.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago

Next time have the competition someplace sensible. Like a school. It just wasn't our natural setting.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Are aim is only good when kids are involved.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

The target must've been white.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

You're thinking of shootings

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Well they don't have an under 12s category.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

For the air sports I might be able to let it slide, as air rifle/pistol is seen as more of a kids sport, to learn the basics. But their trap performance this morning was disappointing. So far, half of the shooting sports have been done, but the second half is more popular in the US, so there's still time to see the US stretch it's legs in shooting.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Holy crap we're no better than storm troopers.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Air rifles are a pretty different type of gun.

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