Recent questions tagged athletics

Description : How would you feel if your two favorite people who had completed everything in an athletic event many times before were eliminated in the first round?

Last Answer : Disappointed

Description : How would you feel if you were doing an obstacle course and you were wobbling on the first obstacle, so you just stepped off the course and got disqualified?

Last Answer : I would be disappointed in myself for not being able to make it through the first obstacle. Then go shower and change my clothes and go home.

Description : Will it be Usain Bolt or Justin Gatlin in 100 m?

Last Answer : To think it will be anyone other than Sir Bolt is utter Usanity! ;-o

Description : Would you be proud to “win first place” by cheating?

Last Answer : Nope, pointless!

Description : Can you do any tricks, feats of athleticism or anything unusual, physically?

Last Answer : I can do the moonwalk pretty well. That’s really about it though

Description : Olympics 2012: What is your favorite event? Who is your favorite to win?

Last Answer : I love the 100 butterfly, it was my event in high school after all. Who wins? Don’t particularly care, I just want a good hard race.

Description : Is it racist to sympathize with the white coach, and condemn the black players?

Last Answer : answer:It is not racist just to say that players who broke the rules should be punished. But the coach turning a blind eye was just as culpable. In fact, more so, because the coach sets the tone for the team.

Description : What do you think about these athletes on scholarships who can barely read?

Last Answer : Really sad and ridiculous. I don't know why athletics comes before education so much in this country, especially when they are supposed to go hand in hand. My brother teaches at a high school in ... the reward of being able to play their sport after school lets out .why? Where's the motivation?

Description : Is there any significance to my body motion observation?

Last Answer : Uh, your statement didn’t hold true for me, at least not as described so I can only say that there is no ‘significance’. As for the restrictions the body has on movement, it’s protective and keeps everything where it should be so we aren’t big flesh puddles.

Description : How does one improve in tricking?

Last Answer : uh… tricking? We need some clarification, please.

Description : Why do athletes make the shape of a triangle with their hands and hold it over their heads? What does it mean? And why is it only, for the most part, African-American athletes who do it?

Last Answer : It’s a sign for The Roc a company that Jay-Z created and then sold but many players still do it like Lebron James.

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