BBC Sports Personality of the Year

[THE FLASH]

Golf isnt a sport either..

[Bogus Dave]

it is really isnt it.

[THE FLASH]

No............just a very good game.

[Bogus Dave]

when do you draw the line between sport and a game though? Football is afterall "only a game"

[THE FLASH]

Anything that doesnt make you sweat whilst doing it (so a hot golf course in Florida doesnt count).

[nevillew]

Anything that doesnt make you sweat whilst doing it (so a hot golf course in Florida doesnt count).

Curry eating it is then.

[Colin Todd]

As is furious wanking

[flammableBen]

I don't know if you can class the merits of a game/sport on the amount of exercise it takes. I like to think of actually playing it. And whilst I could get a few mates together and kick a ball about, use an old dustbin and child size bat with tennis ball to play cricket, race our bikes up and down the alley (maybe more when I was 8), go to a snooker hall and play a few hour long frames, head down to the pitch and putt, get the chess board out or play mario kart. It's unlikely that we'll get our hands on a couple of F1 cars to drive round a track.

[THE FLASH]

I don't know if you can class the merits of a game/sport on the amount of exercise it takes. I like to think of actually playing it. And whilst I could get a few mates together and kick a ball about, use an old dustbin and child size bat with tennis ball to play cricket, race our bikes up and down the alley (maybe more when I was , go to a snooker hall and play a few hour long frames, head down to the pitch and putt, get the chess board out or play mario kart. It's unlikely that we'll get our hands on a couple of F1 cars to drive round a track.

Or have a great big huge fucking stable of horses to compete at the highest level at Show jumping.

[flammableBen]

Yeah Horse stuff has similar criticisms, although not quite as bad as F1.

[THE FLASH]

Curry eating it is then.

Well i see your point but Curry eating hasnt got a deluded following who actually believe its a sport.....unlike Golf, Figure Skating etc etc.

[Zurich Red]

My definition of sport is that:
a) it involves a physical skill; and
b) there is a winner and one or more losers determined by an objective scoring method

So darts is a sport, figure skating isn't, poker and chess aren't because the skill is mental and furious wanking could be if it was based on time or something.

[THE FLASH]

If Wanking was i would of moped up.........no pun intended.

[nevillew]

If Wanking was i would of moped up.........no pun intended.

Interesting combination of onanism and motorsport there Flash.

[thepeoplesgame]

Thats the same for the cycling surely? put hoy on the afghans bikes see how he does

Bollocks. Did you see the margins of victory involved? Chris Hoy would have won the individual sprint at the Olympics on the bike I ride to work. Lewis Hamilton would not win Formula One in my Ford Fiesta.

I'm not putting Hamilton down, I'm just not having anyone suggest Chris Hoy won because of his fucking bike.