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Can anybody tell me what "ELITE" sports are?

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  • #32
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users Posts: 19,571 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


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


  • #33
    ArnoldJRimmer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭ArnoldJRimmer


    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


  • #34
    riclad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    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


  • #35
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    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.


  • #36
    Mr_Muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 917 ✭✭✭Mr_Muffin


    Not GAA anyway.


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  • #37
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    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.


  • #38
    mickdw
    Registered Users Posts: 23,256 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    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.


  • #39
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    The top level of a given sport.


  • #40
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,770 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    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.


  • #41
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,657 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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


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  • #42
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    About ten levels higher than I ever managed


  • #43
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    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.


  • #44
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    ELETE SPORTS

    Polo
    Fencing
    Archery
    Dressage


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    “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.


  • #46
    everlast75
    Registered Users Posts: 18,956 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    [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...


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