Rippetoe is absolutely right. Every word in his piece might as well have been brought down from Mt. Sinai by Charleton Heston. He really hits on something about the games here:
Reconstituted in 1894, they have changed quite a bit over the past century. They now include three basic types of contests: 1.) games such as Golf, Baseball, Hockey, Soccer, and Basketball, where the athletes compete within the framework of a “score” generated within the rules of the game; 2.) artistic judged events such as gymnastics and diving, where the athletes attempt to get as close as possible to a standard for the contested movement developed by their governing organization, and judged for conformation to the standard by the consensus opinion of a panel of expert judges and 3.) athletic events such as the races, the heavy field events, and Weightlifting that generate an objective quantitatively measured score, and combat sports such as wrestling and fencing that generate a win or a loss.We find most of the events non-competitive. Think about skeleton or luge....
[two or four man?-Ed]
Whatever. These people are racing down a track to determine who crosses the finish line with a time of say, 75.76 seconds vs a time of 75.93 seconds. Is the guy with a .017 second advantage really any better then the next in line? Ditto skiing and the like. Guys and gals race down the slopes and the entire field is spate by two seconds.
What's actually competitive about any of this?
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