http://somecountryforoldmen.com/2009/04/07/fat-people-arent-athletes/ What's shakin', old timers? Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:35:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://somecountryforoldmen.com/2009/04/07/fat-people-arent-athletes/#comment-3 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:09:50 +0000 http://somecountryforoldmen.wordpress.com/?p=13#comment-3 Isn’t this really an argument about a distinction between sports and “athletics”? I mean even stick ball can be a sport. But CC Sabathia can’t perform the decathlon. Being skillful at a sport is really just mastering a variety of made-up skills only useful in that particular arena; athletics in the classic Olympic sense of the term was actually meant to determine who was the best at pretty useful and common skills – throwing the farthest, running the fastest, running a long distance, and jumping the highest and the longest. Being the best at that makes you an “athlete”.

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