Poll: Is bridge a sport?

Do you consider Bridge a sport?

  • Yes, I sweat just dealing cards.

    Votes: 18 10.3%

  • No, it's a bridge too far

    Votes: 156 89.7%
  • Total voters
    174
dowie said:
could say that about some mental 'illnesses', I mean some of them are diagnosed only by their behavioral symptoms and don't have any real physical symptoms that can be tested/detected... maybe they should be called something else since they're not 'real' illnesses
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This is a thread about sport/games essentially, not mental illness, you can't even make the link :rolleyes:
 
it is a thread about definitions/classifications

obviously mental illness is a different and more sensitive topic but you can have a similar argument there... they're inventing new disorders all the time

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/may/12/medicine-dsm5-row-does-mental-illness-exist

do disorders which don't have any real physical symptoms really count as mental 'illness' and get to be classified alongside illnesses with detectable physical symptoms?

not so far off asking whether a game with no real physical component gets to be classified alongside those with physical components

just sayin....
 
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If Bridge becomes a sport then so should fapping. A good fap requires imagination (brain workout) and physical effort (right arm workout).
 
spoffle said:
Chess isn't a sport either though, and the issue here is that for some reason people get it in their heads that something has to be classified as a sport because it lends out validity, and if you deny that out is a sport then you are trying to discredit it some how.

Chess isn't a sport, Bridge isn't, video games aren't sports, but they still are what they are regardless of whether some official body says they are or not.
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Chess is an Olympic sport, why shouldn't Bridge be?


the issue comes down to the fact that sports and non-sports may be treated different in terms of things like funding, which is whole unfair.
 
D.P. said:
Chess is an Olympic sport, why shouldn't Bridge be?


the issue comes down to the fact that sports and non-sports may be treated different in terms of things like funding, which is whole unfair.
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Well, it's an Olympic game, that's what the Olympics is really called, the Olympic Games. Its presence there doesn't make it in to a sport, and it doesn't make the players "athletes".

I have no objection to things being introduced in to the Olympics, it just doesn't need to be called a sport, people are getting way too caught up with claiming tactical competitive games are somehow sports despite the lack of physical exertion. I have issue with things like video games tournaments being televised and all that, but they're not sports.

I understand the issue with regards to funding but insisting things are "sports" that aren't, and those who partake in them are athletes too, is just ridiculous.
 
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D.P. said:
Chess is an Olympic sport, why shouldn't Bridge be?


the issue comes down to the fact that sports and non-sports may be treated different in terms of things like funding, which is whole unfair.
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That's not unfair. More people like watching sports than they do games, on the whole.

And chess is not a sport.
 
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That's not unfair. More people like watching sports than they do games, on the whole.

And chess is not a sport.
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The funding aspect is what's unfair based solely on the classification of being a sport. There are markets for various things and I can, for example understand why some are claiming it's a sport because it helps competitive gamers get visas to attend tournaments that they otherwise wouldn't have been able to attend without claiming to be an athlete, but again that doesn't mean they are an Athlete or it's a sport.
 
Chess is a game not a sport
Bridge is a game not a sport
They are both great 'games' that require a lot of skill, but ... They are not a sport.
 
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