Why billiards will never be in Olympics
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Maybe it’s not all teams.. they showed a couple Wearing the long leggings lol
smiling_Hans
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You need to be in shape to curl. The bowler and the sweeper move a lot.
I have never in my life considered going to a city because they held an Olympics there, I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Advertising relies heavily on repetition and association. When you relive some of the memorable performances of the Olympics every 4 years, the name can be refreshed in your memory. Barcelona wasn't on my radar until after the 1992 Olympics. I still remember the name after all of these years. It's likely that our brains process hidden cues and personal triggers, which may significantly shape or guide our choices. Why do you think advertisers use athletes and celebrities to sell products? It is your association and loyalty with them that influences your purchase decisions. Psychological imprinting extends beyond sports, influencing our decision-making processes in subtle ways.
On a related note. Earl has this on order from Amazon. Should arrive on Tuesday.
Where does the bullet come out? Or does a judge stand in front taking meter readings?
The Olympics generate a tremendous amount of revenue, but, where does all the money go? The atheletes get zero and the host cityI think gets what it makes from the attendees, all the advertising money , donations etc. where does that go?
It gets sucked from whence it came where it might trickle a little...
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On a related note and purely from a financial point of view, I approve of college athletes getting paid. Most of these athletes will never see a professional paycheck yet the schools reap millions in revenue from star athletes. Granted they receive value in an already overpriced educational system, but it is not apples to apples in my opinion. I believe 18 years of age is good enough to be considered an adult, pay your taxes, die for your county and reap the rewards of your labor and talent.
On the other hand, I hate the idea of money tainting the purity of the sport from a fan view point. It's a double edge sword for sure, but I would rather the money go to the individuals than institutional elites.
Also hate the APA! Ha!
Really? Have you ever played a 24-36 hour gambling session? Or you could look at events like the DCC where the 9 ball event runs into the wee hours of the morning as it has the last several years leaving the finalists to where they’ve been playing close to or over 24 hours. Do you think that has no effect or requires no physical stamina? Or perhaps you could regale us on the physical challenges of shooting events in the Olympics like pistol, rifle and shotgun shooting, and point out what physical challenges are required in those events that are not present in pocket billiards?
smiling_Hans
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I’ve played 8 hours straights. 5 days a week one summer. It was easy.
Your 24-36 hour example is an extreme. No sport does that. Pool doesn’t do this either. Let alone a fat guy surviving that. You’re bringing up an extreme case and not the norm of our game.
It’s like me telling lebron you never played basketball 24 hours straight.
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The money already taints it imo, , but they give the athletes a tiny bit of it, and even that is reserved for the top players. What about free rides , isn't that remuneration?
I agree on the tainted part, but how do you put value on a team game? We all know MJ was more valuable than Pippin, but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. We will never be able to pay people their exact value, but the top players should receive top pay.
That's what I was referring to in this sentence: "Granted they receive value in an already overpriced educational system, but it is not apples to apples in my opinion."
yup
stewie
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One more reason for trying to make pool olympic: That's how government funding works in the countries who have it. They fund sports who are organized and (at least) strive to be olympic. Those are the rules to play by to get funding. If you are olympic, you even get more. That's why you have team leagues in pool, tennis, ... in these countries, plus all these national, regional levels of organizations.
More like hoping flavor flav sponsors your sport.
Look out for the DuPont family
The US don't give a fk
I get a chuckle out of those thinking anything but you have to be pretty special to be the best in the world at anything. Holding still isn't hard? Stopped by a friend of a friend's place in OKC. He drug out a ten meter air pistol. I grabbed it with my usual two handed grip. "No, you hold it like this: One handed turned sideways duelist style. "Whoa kaaaay." Damned pistol with air cylinder and weights hung off of it weighed more than my 1911's. The pistol weighed three or four pounds when we started, about forty when we finished! I did hang on until he quit. It was too close to call who won. We matched each other every round. Anyone that doesn't think shooting at a dot about the size of a wooden pencil's lead over and over isn't strenuous hasn't been there!
Somebody did a little physical testing on old time stock car racers when they had been off the track for almost three months. "Those guys aren't athletes." Get in your family car and drive it five hundred miles straight through. Now add that you have to be on high alert for that five hundred miles and react quicker than a striking snake. Nothing to it!
There is no reason other than it's lousy reputation which is decades behind the facts that prevents pool from being recognized as a sport. I have played many roughly twelve hour gambling matches. My longest was about sixty hours. Just getting in and out of your chair and walking around gets brutal after twelve hours or so then you have to focus on each shot. Your mental game has to be sharp too.
I don't know how you would put the stress of a long match on pool players in a shorter setting but pool can be as demanding as most things. I have noticed that I can't even feel my legs sometimes in long matches.
Hu
Somebody did a little physical testing on old time stock car racers when they had been off the track for almost three months. "Those guys aren't athletes." Get in your family car and drive it five hundred miles straight through. Now add that you have to be on high alert for that five hundred miles and react quicker than a striking snake. Nothing to it!
There is no reason other than it's lousy reputation which is decades behind the facts that prevents pool from being recognized as a sport. I have played many roughly twelve hour gambling matches. My longest was about sixty hours. Just getting in and out of your chair and walking around gets brutal after twelve hours or so then you have to focus on each shot. Your mental game has to be sharp too.
I don't know how you would put the stress of a long match on pool players in a shorter setting but pool can be as demanding as most things. I have noticed that I can't even feel my legs sometimes in long matches.
Hu
Not my thing but probably would have a better chance. More spectator interest and the time schedule is much easier to predict. One catch, what we usually see is edited for TV. Some of those shots take a lot of time to set up. That would kill the typical spectator's interest in a hurry.
I don't think anyone has tried more formats to try to market pool to the masses, and sponsors, than Allen Hall. He never seemed to find anything that worked on more than a very limited basis.
Hu