Can anybody tell me what "ELITE" sports are?

ShatterAlan · 19-10-2020 8:14pm #1

Since they are allowed to proceed during covid restrictions?

What exactly are "elite" sports?

frozenfrozen · 19-10-2020 8:19pm

Imo elite sports would be ones where the players can isolate before and after in pods with rapid testing and money thrown at running the events and training safely

Pacifico · 19-10-2020 8:20pm

Foxy boxing

Quantum Erasure · 19-10-2020 8:25pm

not GAA

SeaFields · 19-10-2020 8:27pm

Junior B

Jaysus Christ. · 19-10-2020 8:28pm

FIFA 2020. PlayStation.

Ekerot · 19-10-2020 8:28pm

One were this is money to be made.

punisher5112 · 19-10-2020 8:29pm

6 nations
Soccer etc

AllForIt · 19-10-2020 8:29pm

Synchronised swimming

Ronaldinho · 19-10-2020 8:29pm

19-10-2020 8:31pm

Ekerot wrote: »

One were this is money to be made.

... but only for those already rolling in it.

Call me cynical.

Jaysus Christ. · 19-10-2020 8:31pm

Women’s South American beach volleyball.

punisher5112 · 19-10-2020 8:31pm

Matt Damon

con747 · 19-10-2020 8:31pm

Whoever is lobbying the most.

enricoh · 19-10-2020 8:34pm

Jaysus Christ. wrote: »

Women’s South American beach volleyball.

You could have posted a photo or two in fairness jaysus!

19-10-2020 8:34pm

Elite sports are ones that justify putting the sports news before the main news at 1 o'clock or whatever in the eyes of their followers. How the sport is hurt more than anything. Elite sports are played on holy ground.

punisher5112 · 19-10-2020 8:35pm

John Delaney was one of the elite

StevenToast · 19-10-2020 8:35pm

Pacifico wrote: »

Foxy boxing

And such and such

jimwallace197 · 19-10-2020 8:43pm

No doubt GAA, load of ****e, wouldnt know elite if it hit them in the face but I guess they have to appease the boggers.

bangkok · 19-10-2020 8:45pm

Darts down in the local

ShatterAlan · 19-10-2020 9:57pm

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Imo elite sports would be ones where the players can isolate before and after in pods with rapid testing and money thrown at running the events and training safely

Good call and a clap for that man.

punisher5112 · 19-10-2020 9:59pm

ShatterAlan wrote: »

Good call and a clap for that man.

Give that lad a line of coke.

whisky_galore · 19-10-2020 10:35pm

I'd cynically hazard a guess at those sports in which great big wodges of cash are riding on.... not necessarily for the participants

moonage · 20-10-2020 2:32am

Polo is the only one I can think of.

ILoveYourVibes · 20-10-2020 3:43am

punisher5112 wrote: »

Matt Damon

damo

ILoveYourVibes · 20-10-2020 3:44am

ShatterAlan wrote: »

Since they are allowed to proceed during covid restrictions?

What exactly are "elite" sports?

Golf of course politicians play it

ones with enough money to bribe FF

Badly Drunk Boy · 20-10-2020 8:45am

jimwallace197 wrote: »

No doubt GAA, load of ****e, wouldnt know elite if it hit them in the face but I guess they have to appease the boggers.

Yet somehow, they managed to have a better stadium than their soccer counterparts. And without having to share.

galway_cowboy · 20-10-2020 8:53am

I guess the government think the people need games and entertainment.

To be honest though, I'm not sure what it is but I think I'm done with sports. I was a big Gaelic, Hurling and Premier League fan. Have a few quid on a weekend accumulator often. But since March, I just could not give a toss. I tried to sit down to watch a few games but just couldn't.

Pkiernan · 20-10-2020 8:57am

Darts

20-10-2020 12:13pm

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Yet somehow, they managed to have a better stadium than their soccer counterparts. And without having to share.

Consecrated grounds. Silent now but the games are still playable by the schools as permitted by the current restrictions

gourcuff · 20-10-2020 2:33pm

isn't all this bandwagoning just another excuse for insecure egg chasers and soccer heads to bad mouth an association they view as doing better than them?

Ol' Donie · 20-10-2020 4:15pm

Well it isn't fùckin greyhound racing, which appears to be still allowed behind closed doors.

ArnoldJRimmer · 20-10-2020 4:29pm

Intercounty GAA is at a very high standard, and football and hurling are the most popular sports in Ireland. So I would consider both to be an elite sport in Ireland.

Whether elite sports should go ahead right now is a different question. I would say no, not worth it at the moment

riclad · 20-10-2020 9:25pm

Elite sports are sports like soccer or rugby or tennis you need to be very fit you need real talent you need to train
and stay in shape to compete at the highest level
Eg to be on a winning team you need to be in the top 10 per cent
You need to be physically fit and to have a positive mental attitude players like Maradona George Best or Pele had a special talent above the level of the other players on the team
And you know someone s famous when they are known by 1 word
Pele Ronaldo etc

IAMAMORON · 20-10-2020 10:06pm

It is great to have some sort of entertainment.

The Championship going ahead is a big positive. It will give many people across the country something to look forward to. The same for racing, soccer and rugby.

The Masters starts in a few weeks and this will be enjoyable for golf fans.

To be honest if you don't like sport you have the option of not watching.

Mr_Muffin · 20-10-2020 10:08pm

Not GAA anyway.

Richard Hillman · 20-10-2020 10:10pm

Professional sports and Olympic/Paralympic Sports. I would give County GAA a pass even though I don't like it and especially don't like the association.

Pub league Club GAA should not have been given a pass. And the GAA had amble time to finish their championship during that period.

mickdw · 20-10-2020 10:17pm

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Professional sports and Olympic/Paralympic Sports. I would give County GAA a pass even though I don't like it and especially don't like the association.

Pub league Club GAA should not have been given a pass. And the GAA had amble time to finish their championship during that period.

Given the performance level and general interest, Gaa inter county would qualify as being elite. The fact then that the players and most of the backroom are not professional and therefore cannot stay in a gaa bubble all week due to going out to work should in my opinion immediate knock Gaa off the list of sports that can go ahead.

andekwarhola · 20-10-2020 10:21pm

The top level of a given sport.

Strumms · 20-10-2020 10:27pm

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Professional sports and Olympic/Paralympic Sports. I would give County GAA a pass even though I don't like it and especially don't like the association.

Pub league Club GAA should not have been given a pass. And the GAA had amble time to finish their championship during that period.

I wouldn’t give the GAA a pass either. Problem is the mindset there will be try to appease people....you’d be nuts to...

They’ll have a hundred people with bibs in the first round of games with ball boy / steward / whatever.. obviously as gaeilge three hundred the following week and by the provincial finals there will be hundreds more if not thousands more in situ.

Capt'n Midnight · 20-10-2020 11:06pm

There are three sports namely fishing, shooting and hunting. All the rest are mere games.

20-10-2020 11:08pm

About ten levels higher than I ever managed

Richard Hillman · 21-10-2020 12:07am

Strumms wrote: »

I wouldn’t give the GAA a pass either. Problem is the mindset there will be try to appease people....you’d be nuts to...

They’ll have a hundred people with bibs in the first round of games with ball boy / steward / whatever.. obviously as gaeilge three hundred the following week and by the provincial finals there will be hundreds more if not thousands more in situ.

Yeah as I said, the GAA had plenty of time to finish their championship.

The League of Ireland and Professional Rugby came back in August but the GAA faffed about and held their parish pub league cups instead.

The League of Ireland is finishing off their season and Dundalk are in the Europa League. They have to finish the season and we currently cannot see a league happening next season.

Pro Rugby is in a perilous position. Its the only truly world class team sport we have in the country and if the players cannot be paid, we will see an exodus and the provincial teams decimated.

If the GAA doesn't happen, well so what? They dont pay their players anyway. The players will all be there next season. The association will have a financial hole to fill but they can just hold off on their capital expenditure for a year or 2. I would imagine a lot of GAA expenditure is on infrastructure spending.

Hamsterchops · 21-10-2020 12:26am

ELETE SPORTS

Polo
Fencing
Archery
Dressage

21-10-2020 7:02am

“Elite” has become so overused, it is now a word that is sufficiently vague and ill-defined to allow a lot of wriggle room for defining sports that lobby hard enough to keep playing during a Level 5 lockdown

And “Lockdown” has become so overused, it is now a word that is sufficiently vague and ill-defined to allow a lot of wriggle room for defining what it means.

everlast75 · 21-10-2020 7:20am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

“Elite” has become so overused, it is now a word that is sufficiently vague and ill-defined to allow a lot of wriggle room for defining sports that lobby hard enough to keep playing during a Level 5 lockdown

And “Lockdown” has become so overused, it is now a word that is sufficiently vague and ill-defined to allow a lot of wriggle room for defining what it means.

Wriggle room is overused...

Can anybody tell me what "ELITE" sports are?

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