Re: Real Easy Quiz

"Lloyd" <watiyinna@"remove this to reply" smartchat.net.au> wrote:

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>"Davide Tosi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> No.
>> This is mainly about amateur tennis.
>> Sorry, but I think that amateur tennis, like all the amateur sports, was
>> crap.
>> Only pro sports raise to the level of being worth of any attention.
>> So, I think your quiz is mainly designed to know who are the main
>> timewasting archeologists of tennis.
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>The Olympics is crap? 

Olympics are open to professionals since 1988 and probably a good 80% of
the medal winners are pro, but in the most important sports (Track&Field,
Football, Basketball, Cycling, Tennis, Volleyball etc...) only pros have
even a minimal chance of winning a medal.
Only in sports like artistic gymn, where the average age of competitors is
under 20, you still see a dominance of amateurs at olympic level.

Even before 1988, I wouldn't have called those fake "state employees" from
East Europe real amateurs. Some of those guys were officially accountants
whose only numbers they knew where the ones of their hours of daily
training.

Amateur sport in the original "de coubertin" sense, of a sport practiced
only by wealthy people just out of passion, died before WW2 and fortunately
so. I prefer much more to see the 10.000 meters race won by an Ethiopian
guy who built his fortune out of running than by those stupid english
college snobs you see on the "Chariots of Fire" movie.
Professionalism made most sports available to a good part of the worldwide
population, while at amateur times probably only a 0,01% of the people
could afford to play it.