Boxing. According ESPN anyway!
oh yeah! Vote Bernard! http://espn.go.com/boxing/
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Boxing. According ESPN anyway!
oh yeah! Vote Bernard! http://espn.go.com/boxing/
Cycling in 20th !!, what a joke !
Tennis 7th? Badminton is way, way more tough than that. Tennis is actually easy going compared to it. Looking at the comparison of each section between them it's clear that nobody that has played badminton had anything to do with it. That's the way things like that are always going to be though, minority sports are always going be sold short.
http://www.badminton.bnl.gov/ten-bad.html
I presume you think cycling should be higher Boss?
Not darts? Shocked is all I can say.
No sign of chess-boxing? You try calculating a queen sacrifice with a concussion!
I'd imagine both are equally gruelling to the big girls blouses who play them.Quote:
Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge
Tennis and Badminton :rolleyes:
Funny that the top five are sports that are either founded in the US, or dominated by them (with the possible exception of boxing), and in all cases are the most popular on TV over there. Baseball is 9th FFS - higher than distance cycling, squash, alpine Skiing and Pole Vaulting, for examples.
Sure that's easy when your drugged off your tits.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBoss
Baseball ninth? How tough can it be when they can play a full match nearly every day?
Have you tried descneding at 90 mph whacked out of it on Coke?Quote:
Originally Posted by De Town
Its an amazing sport but in truth there is little skill involved. Lungs like balloons and yer away.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBoss
cheerleading only 52nd?
If played "straight" it's (Cycling) without doubt the toughest sport,can you imagine what it must be like to climp Alp D'Huez with your lungs screaming at you to stop?Quote:
Originally Posted by sligobhoy67
They have to go through the pain barrier for prolonged periods.
surely the ability to have a massive lung capacity shouldnt be enough all that the ultimate sportman requires though eh!Quote:
Originally Posted by the 12 th man
Boxing is the ultimate sports, requires the ultimate in terms of physical and mental endurance and ability.
The heart that it must take to ply your trade in such a tough sport whilst having an equally good opponant punching you at the same time trumps the monotonous repetition of driving a cog around.
I put rowing and cycling in the same bracket - both require phenomenal lung and endurance capacity but relatively little skill.
I would reckon ice hockey.
First, you have to master ice-skating at high speeds.
Second, you have to master swinging a stick at a tiny object as it flies around at high speed while at the same time skating at high speeds.
Third, you need lightning quick reactions.
Finally, you have to have the other mental attributes which make great sportsmen.
I probably over simplified by saying your lungs as your whole body must be wracked with lactic acid as you get near the summit(bearing in mind you have to do it all again tommorow),I spend an unholy amount of time watching sport on TV and in person and I think it's the toughest anyhow:)Quote:
Originally Posted by sligobhoy67
Def agree with this, Cycling has to be the toughest, and also can very damaging to the a-hole area - at least that's why i gave it up, could barely walk after it. No wonder Cyclists have few or any children!Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBoss
The tactical nous required to win is also important to note - which break to take, how to finish the win, which wheel to take in the run in - this being just for the one day races or an individual stage. Have a gawk at Kelly winning Milan San Remo in 1992 for a master class in coming from no chance to glorious and tactical victory.Quote:
Originally Posted by the 12 th man
The stage races require a greater degree of strategy and tactics closer to an athletic version of chess than most sports I can think of.
With the exception of Chess Boxing obviously.
Interesting that golf scored 2.5 out of 10 in the "nerve" section, while horse racing scored 8.
I'd have thought that in golf, nerve was astonishingly important, given the amount of time between shots to let nerves fray.
Also, it gets 1.63 for power ("The ability to produce strength in the shortest possible time"), while baseball gets 6.5, despite the motions being quite similar, especially when using a driver.
Hand & Eye coordination - golf 6.00, association football 6.5
Methinks that in this case at least, the panel of experts were not all that familiar with the sport they were analysing.
I suppose you have to measure the choice of losing a fortune on one bad shot as opposed to your life/livelihood on one bad jump in a N.H race.Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan